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AUSTRALIAN CONSULAR OFFICERS' NOTARIAL POWERS AND EVIDENCE ACT 1946 - SECT 3

Powers of Australian consular officer or authorised employee

3 Powers of Australian consular officer or authorised employee

(1) Where any oath, affidavit, or notarial act is required for the purpose of any court or matter in Queensland, any such oath or affidavit, and any such notarial act which, if done in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, a notary public could do may, in any country or place outside the Commonwealth, be made, sworn, and done by or before an Australian consular officer or authorised employee exercising his or her functions in that country or place.
(1A) Every such oath, affidavit, and notarial act made, sworn, or done by or before any such Australian consular officer or authorised employee shall be as effectual as if duly made, sworn, or done before any lawful authority in Queensland.
(2) Any document required, authorised, or permitted by any Act or law of this State to be attested, or verified by, or sealed, or signed, or acknowledged or declared before a justice of the peace of this State may, in any country or place outside the Commonwealth, be attested, or verified, or sealed, or signed, or acknowledged or declared by or before an Australian consular officer or authorised employee exercising his or her functions in that country or place.
(2A) Every document attested or verified by, or sealed, or signed, or acknowledged or declared before any such Australian consular officer or authorised employee shall be as effectual as if duly attested, or verified by, or sealed, or sworn, or acknowledged or declared before a justice of the peace in Queensland.
(3) Any document purporting to have affixed, impressed, or subscribed thereon or thereto the seal or signature or seal and signature of an Australian consular officer or authorised employee in testimony of any oath, affidavit, or notarial act being made, taken, or done by or before the Australian consular officer or authorised employee or of such document having been attested or verified by, or sealed, or signed, or acknowledged or declared before the Australian consular officer or authorised employee shall be admitted in evidence without proof of the seal or signature or seal and signature of that person, or of his or her official character.



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