In what the government expects to be a major boost to productivity, statutory declarations will be able to be done digitally from January 1 next year. The government says new legislation, passed by ...

New laws allowing digital statutory declarations will make it easy to apply online for a raft of federal services such as passport renewals, Australian visas, health services, election enrolment, ...

Australians will save $156 million and hundreds of thousands of work hours after the government passed legislation to permanently recognise digital commonwealth statutory declarations. Roughly 3.8 ...

One of the last vestiges of centuries of paper and ink has finally fallen, after federal attorney-general Mark Dreyfus wrote into law the permanent ability to use digital execution, electronic ...

The federal government has introduced legislation to permanently allow declarations to be made with electronic signatures and video-link witnessing. The measures were temporary during Covid-19. The ...

KOTA KINABALU: There is a rising trend of non-citizens signing statutory declarations (SD) as a supporting document for their application of identity documents, says Datuk Seri Dr Jeffrey Kitingan ...

Question: I am taking a lease that is contracted out of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954. My solicitor says I must swear a statutory declaration in front of another solicitor at a different firm. Is ...

Life will be made a lot easier for the millions of Australians every year needing a statutory declaration. In what the government expects to be a major boost to productivity, statutory declarations ...