Victorian Consolidated Regulations Victorian Consolidated Regulations(1) If it appears to the person before whom an affidavit is sworn or affirmed that the deponent is illiterate, blind, physically incapacitated or cognitively impaired the person must certify in or below the jurat that—
(a) the person read the affidavit in the deponent's presence to the deponent; and
(b) the deponent seemed to the person to understand it.
(2) If an affidavit is made by an illiterate, blind, physically incapacitated or cognitively impaired deponent and a certificate in accordance with subrule (1) does not appear on the affidavit, it may not be used in evidence unless the Court is satisfied that the affidavit was read to the deponent.