Certifying Identification
For example: 'I certify that this is a true copy of the original document' OR 'Certified Copy"
Date: __________________________________
Full Name: ______________________________
Position/Title: ___________________________
Licence No: _____________________________
Signature: ______________________________
Certified Extract - an extract that has been certified as a true copy of some of the information contained in a complete original document
In the Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism Financing Rules Instruments 2007 (No. 1) a Certified Copy means a document that has been certified as a true copy of an original document by one of the following persons:
1) a person who, under a law in force in a State or Territory, is currently licensed or registered to practise in an occupation listed in Part 1 of Schedule 2 of the Statutory Declarations Regulations 1993;
- Chiropractor
- Dentist
- Legal practitioner
- Veterinary surgeon
- Medical practitioner
- Nurse
- Optometrist
- Trade marks attorney
- Patent attorney
- Pharmacist
- Physiotherapist
- Psychologist
2) a person who is enrolled on the roll of the Supreme Court of a State or Territory, or the High Court of Australia, as a legal practitioner (however described);
3) a person listed in Part 2 of Schedule 2 of the Statutory Declarations Regulations 1993. For the purposes of these Rules, where Part 2 uses the term ‘5 or more years of continuous service’, this should be read as ‘2 or more years of continuous service’; (Please note this list is a shortened version of the AML & CTF Rules Instruments 2007(No.1)
- Agent of the Australian Postal Corporation who is in charge of an office supplying postal services to the public
- Bank officer with 5 or more continuous years of service
- Building society officer with 5 or more years of continuous service
- Chief executive officer of a Commonwealth court
- Clerk of a court
- Credit union officer with 5 or more years of continuous service
- Fellow of the National Tax Accountants’ Association
- Finance company officer with 5 or more years of continuous service
- Judge of a court
- Justice of the Peace
- Magistrate
- Master of a court
- Member of Chartered Secretaries Australia
- Member of Engineers Australia, other than at the grade of student
- Member of the Association of Taxation and Management Accountants
- An officer of the Member of the Australian Defence Force
- Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia, the Australian Society of Certified Practising Accountants or the National Institute of Accountants
- Member of: the Parliament of the Commonwealth; or the Parliament of a State; or a Territory legislature; or a local government authority of a State or Territory
- Notary public
- Permanent employee of the Australian Postal Corporation with 5 or more years of continuous service who is employed in an office supplying postal services to the public
- Person before whom a statutory declaration may be made under the law of the State or Territory in which the declaration is made
- Police officer
- Teacher employed on a full-time basis at a school or tertiary education institution
4) an officer with, or authorised representative of, a holder of an Australian financial services licence or Australian credit licence, having 2 or more years of continuous service with one or more licensees;
Foreign individual residing outside of Australia, can use a person authorised as a notary public in their foreign country.
Any certifications on these documents must be within 12 months timeframe of submission of your application.