Qualified Witness List
When documents are witnessed outside Australia they shall be deemed to be correctly executed if each signature is witnessed by a person not a party to the document and who is:
- a Notary Public
- an Australian Consular Officer
- an elected member of Parliament or other representative body at the equivalent of State or Federal Level
- a Judge or Magistrate
- qualified and entitled to practice Law
- qualified and entitled to practise as a Civil, Electrical or Mechanical engineer
- qualified as a School Teacher
- a University Lecturer
- the Mayor of a Town or City; or
- a person with Managerial responsibility in a Bank
- qualified and entitled to practice as a doctor of medicine
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Qualified Witness List