New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

UNIFORM CIVIL PROCEDURE RULES 2005 - REG 35.7A

35.7A Name of legal practitioner or commissioner for affidavits on affidavit

(cf SCR Part 38, rule 2(4A), (4B) and (5))

(1) A legal practitioner who takes and receives an affidavit concerning any matter within the jurisdiction of the court must, by use of a stamp or otherwise, add, legibly below the legal practitioner's signature, the legal practitioner's name and address together with the word "barrister" or "solicitor", as the case requires.

(2) A commissioner for affidavits who takes and receives an affidavit concerning any matter within the jurisdiction of the court, must, by use of a stamp or otherwise, add, legibly below the commissioner's signature, the commissioner's name and address together with the words "commissioner for affidavits".

(3) In this rule,
"commissioner for affidavits" means a person who is authorised by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, under section 27(2) of the Oaths Act 1900 , to take and receive affidavits.