In what the government expects to be a major boost to productivity, statutory declarations will be able to be done digitally from January 1 next year. The government says new legislation, passed by ...

The federal government has introduced legislation to permanently allow declarations to be made with electronic signatures and video-link witnessing. The measures were temporary during Covid-19. The ...

We are now days into a new year and we do not know for sure what our prime minister owes and/or owns. Our prime minister is bound by law to make these disclosures to avoid conflicts, malicious ...

TWO sitting councillors and a former councillor have found themselves in trouble with the law over their failure to file their statutory declarations with the Integrity Commission (IC), and/or their ...

KOTA KINABALU: There is a rising trend of non-citizens signing statutory declarations (SD) as a supporting document for their application of identity documents, says Datuk Seri Dr Jeffrey Kitingan ...

One of the last vestiges of centuries of paper and ink has finally fallen, after federal attorney-general Mark Dreyfus wrote into law the permanent ability to use digital execution, electronic ...

The Standing Committee of Attorneys-General has announced a uniform approach to statutory declarations. The move will attempt to redress the fragmentation of the current system, which has different ...

Life will be made a lot easier for the millions of Australians every year needing a statutory declaration. In what the government expects to be a major boost to productivity, statutory declarations ...

A look at the role and significance of statutory declarations. MUCH has been said about statutory declarations. A reader wants to know if a statutory declaration is the same as an affidavit. And in ...