Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) Affidavits for use in:
(a) an Australian court (other than a court of a Territory) in proceedings involving the exercise of federal jurisdiction; or
(b) a court of a Territory in proceedings involving the exercise of jurisdiction conferred by an Act of the Parliament;
may be sworn before any justice of the peace, notary public or Australian lawyer without the issue of any commission for taking affidavits.
(2) In this section:
"proceedings" includes proceedings that:
(a) relate to bail; or
(b) are interlocutory proceedings or proceedings of a similar kind; or
(c) are heard in chambers; or
(d) relate to sentencing.