Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2019L00206:reg:43
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2019L00206
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 43
Character Range: 69316–71047

43  Verification of information etc.
 (1) Subject to the Act and this instrument, the Registrar may, in relation to any document lodged with or produced to the Registrar for noting, do one or more of the following:
 (a) require the verification, by statutory declaration, of:
 (i) the authenticity of the document; or
 (ii) any information contained in the document;
 (b) require the submission of further documents or information in support of, or in substitution for a document or information referred to in paragraph (a);
 (c) refuse to make an entry in the General Register or International Register, or to perform any function or exercise any power under the Act or this instrument, to which a requirement under paragraph (a) relates until that requirement is satisfied.
 (2) A requirement under paragraph (1)(a) or (b) must be set out in a notice in writing signed by or on behalf of the Registrar and be given to:
 (a) the person in respect of whom the document to which the requirement relates was lodged with, or produced to, the Registrar; or
 (b) the person, or any one of the persons, in whose interest that document was so lodged or produced.
 (3) A notice setting out a requirement under subsection (1) for the verification of information relating to the identity, nationality or residential status of a person (the first person) may require:
 (a) that the verification be by a statutory declaration by a person (other than the first person) who has known the first person for a period of no less duration than that specified in the notice; and
 (b) that such a statutory declaration specify the period during which the declarant has known the first person.

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