Queensland Consolidated Acts

AUSTRALIAN CONSULAR OFFICERS' NOTARIAL POWERS AND EVIDENCE ACT 1946 - SECT 4

4 Things required to be done before British consular officers may be done before Australian consular officers etc.

(1) Where an Act requires, authorises, or permits any notarial act to be done by, or any oath or affidavit to be made or taken or any document to be sealed or signed or acknowledged or declared before, any person appointed to hold or act in any diplomatic or consular office of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, whether that person is in that enactment referred to as British ambassador, envoy, Minister, charge d’affaires, secretary of embassy or legation, consul-general, consul, vice-consul, or consular agent, or by any other title, then the same may be done by or, as the case may be, made or taken or sealed or signed or acknowledged or declared before either that person or any Australian consular officer or authorised employee and for that purpose every reference in that enactment to such person shall be deemed to also include a reference to an Australian consular officer or authorised employee within the meaning of this Act.

(2) In this section—

"enactment" includes a provision of any order in council, regulation, rule, by-law or other instrument made pursuant to any Act.