Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C00417:reg:3:p64
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C00417
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 3 (pt 64/100)
Character Range: 272318–274891

witness may provide a business address in place of a residential address.
 (2) If, in a parenting proceeding:
 (a) the deponent of an affidavit is a party; and
 (b) the affidavit does not disclose the deponent's address; and
 (c) the deponent's address has not already been provided to the court;
the deponent's address must be provided to the court by email and the address must not be disclosed other than in accordance with an order of the court.
 (3) A document that is to be used in conjunction with an affidavit:
 (a) must be identified in the affidavit; and
 (b) must be filed as an annexure or an exhibit to the affidavit; and
 (c) must be paginated; and
 (d) must bear a statement signed by the person before whom the affidavit is made identifying it as the particular annexure or exhibit referred to in the affidavit; and
 (e) must not be accepted as evidence in the proceeding unless and until it is separately tendered in evidence at the hearing of the application and accepted into evidence by the court.
 (4) A document annexed or exhibited to an affidavit must be served with the affidavit.

8.16  Making an affidavit
 (1) An affidavit must be:
 (a) confined to facts about the issues in dispute; and
 (b) confined to admissible evidence; and
 (c) sworn or affirmed by the deponent, in the presence of a witness; and
 (d) signed at the bottom of each page by the deponent and the witness; and
 (e) filed after it is sworn or affirmed.
 (2) Any insertion in, erasure or other alteration of, an affidavit must be initialled by the deponent and the witness.
 (3) A reference to a date (other than the name of a month), number or amount of money must be written in figures.

8.17  Affidavit of illiterate or vision impaired person etc.
 (1) If the deponent is unable to read, or is physically incapable of signing it, the person before whom the affidavit is made must certify in or below the jurat that:
 (a) the affidavit was read to the deponent; and
 (b) the deponent seemed to understand the affidavit; and
 (c) in the case of a deponent physically incapable of signing—the deponent indicated that the contents were true.
 (2) Subrule (1) does not apply if the deponent has read the affidavit using:
 (a) a computer with a screen reader, text‑to‑speech software or a braille display; or
 (b) other technology for the vision impaired.
 (3) If the deponent does not have an adequate command of English:
 (a) a translation of the affidavit and oath or affirmation must be read or given in writing to the deponent in a language that the deponent understands; and