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Certifying documents

What is a certified document?
When you provide us with a scanned copy or photocopy of an original document, we require the copy to be “certified” by an authorised officer to show that it is an authentic copy of the original document. Please see below for a list of people who are authorised to certify documents both within and outside Australia.

How to certify
The authorised officer must:
• Sight the original document and write on the copy “This is a true copy of the original documents sighted by me”;
• Sign and print their name;
• Provide an address and contact telephone number;
• State their profession or occupation group (as below);
• Write the date certified; and
• Stamp the copy with the official stamp or seal of their organisation (if they have one).

Who can certify documents?

Within Australia
• Student Centre staff at Murdoch University
• The Admissions Office or Student Administration of any Australian university
• The administration office of any TAFE College
• Western Australian Tertiary Institutions Service Centre (TISC), Queensland Tertiary Admissions Centre, South Australian Admissions Centre, Universities Admissions Centre (NSW and ACT), or Victorian Tertiary Admissions Centre
• Anyone who is currently employed as a Justice of the Peace; Commissioner of Declarations; bank manager or credit union branch manager; barrister, solicitor or patent attorney; pharmacist; police officer of a police station or of the rank of sergeant and above; medical practitioner; postal manager; principal of an Australian secondary college, high school or primary school; psychologist; or accountant (who is a member of the Institute of Charted Accountants in Australia, CPA Australia, National Institute of Accountants, Association of Taxation and Management Accountants, or a Registered Tax Agent).

Overseas:
• The official records department of the institution that originally issued the documents
• An Australian overseas diplomatic mission; Australian Education Centre; Notary Public; or any of the registered overseas agents of Murdoch University