Counter-signing other document or notarial act done out of Territory
25 Counter-signing other document or notarial act done out of Territory
(1) If a person makes a relevant document at a place outside the Territory, the document may be counter-signed by any person who could, under section 15(2), witness the document if it were being made as an affidavit.
(1A) A person may counter-sign a document by audiovisual link or other electronic means.
(2) If it is necessary for any purpose in the Territory for a notarial act to be done at a place outside the Territory, the notarial act may be done by any person who could, under section 15(2), witness, in person or by audiovisual link, the making of an affidavit at the place by the person for whom the notarial act is to be done.
In this section:
counter-sign, for a document, means:
witness the execution of the document; or
verify or acknowledge the document; or
(c) otherwise sign the document in a capacity other than as the maker of the document.
notarial act, for a place outside the Territory, means anything a notary public may do at the place under any law, custom or otherwise.
relevant document means a document that is required under an Act, or for any other purpose in the Territory, to be counter-signed.
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