Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(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.