Commissioner for Declarations (CDs) serve the public by signing documents that require a qualified witness.
Below is a list of professionals and appointment holders who are CDs
Professionals
- Architect
- Chiropractor
- Dentist
- Financial advisor or financial planner
- Legal practitioner
- Medical practitioner
- Midwife
- Migration agent registered under Division 3 of Part 3 of the Migration Act 1958
- Nurse
- Occupational Therapist
- Optometrist
- Patent attorney
- Pharmacist
- Physiotherapist
- Psychologist
- Trade marks attorney
- Veterinary surgeon
Appointment Holders
- Accountant who is:
- (a) a fellow of the National Tax Accountants' Association; or
- (b) a member of any of the following:
- (i) Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand;
- (ii) the Association of Taxation and Management Accountants;
- (iii) CPA Australia;
- (iv) the Institute of Public Accountants
- Agent of the Australian Postal Corporation who is in charge of an office supplying postal services to the public
- Australian Consular Officer or Australian Diplomatic Officer (within the meaning of the Consular Fees Act 1955)
- Australian Public Service employee engaged on an ongoing basis with 5 or more years of continuous service who is not specified elsewhere
- Bailiff
- Bank officer with 5 or more continuous years of service
- Building society officer with 5 or more years of continuous service
- Chief executive officer of a Commonwealth court
- Clerk of a court
- Commissioner for Affidavits
- Commissioner for Declarations
- Credit union officer with 5 or more years of continuous service
- Employee of a Commonwealth authority engaged on a permanent basis with 5 or more years of continuous service who is not specified elsewhere
- Employee of the Australian Trade and Investment Commission who is:
- a) at a place outside Australia; and
- b) authorised under paragraph 3(c) of the Consular Fees Act 1955; and
- c) exercising his or her function in that place
- Employee of the Commonwealth who is:
- a) at a place outside Australia; and
- b) authorised under paragraph 3(c) of the Consular Fees Act 1955; and
- c) exercising his or her function in that place
- Employees of the Department of Police, Fire and Emergency Management employed as:
- a) Customer Service Officers;
- b) Police Public Enquiries Officers;
- c) Property Officers; and
- d) Station Support Officers
- Engineer who is:
- (a) a member of Engineers Australia, other than at the grade of student; or
- (b) a Registered Professional Engineer of Professionals Australia; or
- (c) registered as an engineer under a law of the Commonwealth, State or Territory; or
- (d) registered on the National Engineering Register by Engineers Australia
- Finance company officer with 5 or more years of continuous service
- Holder of a statutory office not specified elsewhere
- Judge
- Justice of the Peace
- Magistrate
- Managers/Coordinators (however described) of the community organisations collectively known as Neighbourhood Houses
- Marriage celebrant registered under Subdivision C of division 1 of Part IV of the Marriage Act 1961
- Master of a court
- Member of the Australian Defence Force who is:
- (a) an officer; or
- (b) a non-commissioned officer within the meaning of the Defence Force Discipline Act 1982 with more than 5 years of continuous service; or
- (c) a warrant officer within the meaning of that Act
- Member of the Australasian Institute on Mining and Metallurgy
- Member of the Governance Institute of Australia Ltd
- Member of
- a) the Parliament of the Commonwealth; or
- b) the Parliament of a State; or
- c) a Territory legislature; or
- d) a local government authority of a State or Territory
- Minister of Religion registered under Subdivision A of Division 1 of Part IV of the Marriage Act 1961
- Notary public, including a notary public (however described) exercising functions at a place outside:
- (a) the Commonwealth; and
- (b) the external Territories of the Commonwealth
- Officers appointed under section 13 of the Animal Welfare Act 1993
- Permanent employee of the Australian Postal Corporation with 5 or more years continuous service who is employed in an office supplying postal services to the public
- Permanent employee of:
- (a) a State or Territory or State or Territory Authority; or
- (b) a local government authority
with 5 or more years continuous service who is not specified elsewhere
- Person before whom a statutory declaration may be made under the laws of the State or Territory in which the declaration is made
- Police officer
- Registrar or Deputy Registrar of a court
- Senior executive employee of a Commonwealth authority
- Senior executive employee of a State or Territory
- SES employee of the Commonwealth
- Sheriff
- Sherriff's officer
- Supervisors/team leaders within the Monitoring and Compliance Unit of Community Corrections
- Teacher employed on a permanent full-time basis at a school or tertiary education institution