Uniform Civil Procedure Rules 2005

A legal practitioner who takes and receives an affidavit concerning any matter within the jurisdiction of the court must, by use of a stamp or otherwise, add, legibly below the legal practitioner’s signature, the legal practitioner’s name and address together with the word “barrister” or “solicitor”, as the case requires.

A commissioner for affidavits who takes and receives an affidavit concerning any matter within the jurisdiction of the court, must, by use of a stamp or otherwise, add, legibly below the commissioner’s signature, the commissioner’s name and address together with the words “commissioner for affidavits”.

In this rule, commissioner for affidavits means a person who is authorised by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, under section 27(2) of the Oaths Act 1900, to take and receive affidavits.