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The Board's policy on the lodgement of original documentation
The Board is involved in matters where a high degree of certainty about qualifications, appointments, character and identity is required. These matters include:
- The Admission of Lawyers
- The Appointment of Public Notaries
- The Registration of Students-at-Law
- The recognition of overseas qualifications
- Changes of name associated with any of the above matters
Because these matters are of such importance, the Board has structured its rules, application forms and procedures to require, at appropriate points, the provision of original documents. In most cases the Board retains the original documents for many years so that they are available, if later required, for forensic analysis.
An applicant in any of the above matters should assume that original documents are required unless an application form specifically states to the contrary.
The name of an applicant appearing on documents supporting an application should be consistent, even to a second or third given name. When a name varies from document to document, applicants should ensure that documents evidencing their academic attainments and professional status are amended by the respective issuing authorities to a precisely consistent name before lodging them with the Board.
For purposes of evidencing a change of name in connection with any of the above matters, an applicant may provide the Board with an original certificate issued by the New South Wales Registrar of Births, Deaths and Marriages or an equivalent body in another State or Territory of Australia together with a statutory declaration explaining the reason for the change of name. The certificate must include the previous, as well as the new, name of the person. Acceptable certificates issued by the NSW Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages are: Birth certificates, Change of Name certificates, and Marriage Registration certificates.
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