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Authorised Persons

The following persons may witness Statutory Declarations in Western Australia:

  1. A town or shire clerk within the meaning of the Local Government Act 1960.
  2. A member of a municipal council within the meaning of the Local Government Act 1960.
  3. An electoral registrar appointed under the Electoral Act 1907.
  4. A person appointed to take charge of a Post Office in the State.
  5. An officer of the State or Commonwealth public service.
  6. A teacher within the meaning of the Education Act 1928.
  7. A police officer.
  8. A person appointed to take charge of the head or any branch office in the State of a bank carrying on business under the Banking Act 1959 of the Commonwealth or under a written law of the State.
  9. A person appointed to take charge of the head or any branch office of a society within the meaning of the Building Societies Act 1976 or a credit union within the meaning of the Credit Unions Act 1979.
  10. A secretary of an organisation of employees or employers registered under the Industrial Relations Act 1979 or of an organisation registered under the Conciliation and Arbitration Act 1904 of the Commonwealth.
  11. A practitioner within the meaning of the Legal Practitioners Act 1893.
  12. A medical practitioner registered under the Medical Act 1894.
  13. A pharmaceutical chemist within the meaning of the Pharmacy Act 1964.
  14. A member of the academic staff of an institution providing courses at post-secondary education level.
  15. The holder of a licence under the Real Estate and Business Agents Act 1978 or the Settlement Agents Act 1981.
  16. An insurance broker registered under the Insurance (Agents and Brokers) Act 1984 of the Commonwealth.
  17. A person registered as an auditor or a liquidator under the Corporations Act 1989.
  18. A Justice of the Peace:
    (a)  for the State; or
    (b)  appointed for any part of the Commonwealth that is outside the State.
  19. A Commissioner for Declarations:
    (a)  appointed under the Declarations and Attestations Act 1913 as amended; or
    (b)  appointed under the provisions of the Statutory Declarations Act 1959 of the Commonwealth.
  20. A town or shire clerk, electoral registrar, postmaster, classified officer in the State of Commonwealth public service, classified State school teacher or member of the police force.
  21. A member of either House of Parliament of the State or of the Commonwealth.

No person under eighteen years of age may be a witness.
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