Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00005:section:6
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00005
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 6
Character Range: 4303–5078

6  Authority to make and use statutory declarations
 (1) A person may, if the person so desires, make a statutory declaration in relation to any matter.
 (2) Subject to subsection (3), a statutory declaration may be used:
 (a) for the purposes of a law of the Commonwealth or of a Territory, unless the contrary intention appears in that law;
 (b) in connection with any matter arising under a law of the Commonwealth or of a Territory, unless the contrary intention appears in that law; or
 (c) in connection with the administration of any Department of State of the Commonwealth.
 (3) Subsection (2) does not authorise a statutory declaration to be used as evidence in a judicial proceeding but nothing in this section prevents a statutory declaration from being so used.