Certification of Identification

Authorised certifiers who can certify your identification documents are:

(note, there’s a shortened list of the most common certifiers in the application form)

• A person currently licensed or registered to practise in Australia as one of the following occupations:
  • Architect
  • Chiropractor
  • Dentist
  • Financial adviser or financial planner
  • Legal practitioner
  • Medical practitioner
  • Midwife
  • Migration agent registered under Division 3 of Part 3 of the Migration Act 1958
  • Nurse
  • Occupational therapist
  • Optometrist
  • Patent attorney
  • Pharmacist
  • Physiotherapist
  • Psychologist
  • Trademarks attorney
  • Veterinary surgeon
• An accountant who meets at least one of the following criteria:
  •  Fellow of the National Tax Accountants’ Association
  • Member of Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand
  • Member of the Association of Taxation and Management Accountants
  • Member of CPA Australia
  • Member of the Institute of Public Accountants
• Agent of the Australian Postal Corporation who is in charge of an office supplying postal services to the public
• Australian Public Service employee engaged on an ongoing basis with 5 or more years of continuous service who is not otherwise authorised
• Australian Consular Officer or Australian Diplomatic Officer
• Bailiff
• Bank officer with 5 or more continuous years of service
• Building society officer with 5 or more years of continuous service
• Chief executive officer of a Commonwealth court
• Clerk of a court
• Commissioner for Affidavits
• Commissioner for Declarations
• Credit union officer with 5 or more years of continuous service
• Employee of a Commonwealth authority engaged on a permanent basis with 5 or more years of continuous service who is not otherwise authorised
• Employee of the Australian Trade and Investment Commission who is in a country or place outside Australia; is authorised in writing by the Secretary of DFAT to collect fees under s 3(d) of the Consular Fees Act 1955, and who is exercising the employee’s function at that place
• Employee of the Commonwealth who is at a place outside Australia, authorised in writing by the Secretary of DFAT to collect fees under s 3(d) of the Consular Fees Act 1955, and who is exercising the employee’s function at that place
• An engineer who meets at least one of the following criteria:
  • A member of Engineers Australia, other than a student
  • A Registered Professional Engineer of Professionals Australia
  • Registered as an engineer under a law of the Commonwealth or a State or Territory
  • Registered on the National Engineering Register by Engineers Australia
• Finance company officer with 5 or more years of continuous service
• Holder of a Commonwealth statutory office not otherwise specified
• Judge
• Justice of the Peace
• Magistrate
• Registered marriage celebrant
• Master of a court
• Member of the Australian Defence Force who meets at least one of the following criteria:
  • An officer
  • A non-commissioned officer with 5 or more years of continuous service
  • A warrant officer
• Member of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy
• Member of the Governance Institute of Australia Ltd
• Member of:
  • the Parliament of the Commonwealth; or
  • the Parliament of a State; or
  • a Territory legislature; or
  • a local government authority
• Registered minister of religion
• Notary public, including a notary public exercising functions at a place outside either the Commonwealth or the external Territories of the Commonwealth
• Permanent employee of the Australian Postal Corporation with 5 or more years continuous service who is employed in an office providing postal services to the public
• Permanent employee with 5 or more years of continuous service who is not otherwise specified, if employed at a State or Territory or a State or Territory authority, or a local government authority.
• Police officer
• Registrar, or Deputy Registrar, of a court
• Senior executive employee of a Commonwealth authority
• Senior executive employee of a State or Territory
• Senior Executive Service employee of the Commonwealth
• Sheriff
• Sheriff’s Officer
• Teacher employed on a permanent full-time or part-time basis at a school or tertiary education institution
• A person who is enrolled on the roll of the Supreme Court of a State or Territory, or the High Court of Australia, as a legal practitioner (however described);
• An officer with, or authorised representative of, a holder of an Australian financial services licence, having 2 or more years of continuous service with one or more licensees; or
• A notary public in a foreign country.

On the first page of a copy of the original document, write or stamp:

• “Certified to be a true copy of the original seen by me”;
• the certifier’s name, address and qualification; and
• the certifier’s phone number or email address (optional).

Next, sign and date the copy. For multiple page documents:

• Sign or initial each subsequent page of the copy
• Number each page of the copy (e.g. Page 1 of 10) including the first page

Investors which are trusts or partnerships must also provide additional certified documents:

• Trusts – you must also provide us with a certified copy of the trust deed
• Partnerships – you must also provide us with a certified copy of the partnership agreement