You will need to arrange for an authorised person to certify your documents. Our Proof of Identity Fact Sheet lists the authorised persons that can certify, which include but not limited to a Justice of the Peace, a solicitor, an accountant with more than two years’ continuous membership of a professional body, a police officer or a permanent employee of Australia Post with more than two years’ continuous service.
The authorised person must sight the original and the copy of the document to make sure they are identical. They must certify all the pages of the document and provide particular details and the date they certified the document.
This person who certifies the documents must also be both independent and impartial and not related to the member such as a spouse or a family member.
We may reject the documents if there is any actual or perceived conflict of interest.