Sally Sitou (Reid, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

I rise to talk about the importance of maintaining rigour in our Statutory Declarations Act while also ensuring that we are able to provide efficiency. That is what we are doing here with the Statutory Declarations Amendment Bill 2023. Statutory declarations have their place, and have always had their place, ensuring that the documents put before us are true and that we have someone who is trusted. Our justices of the peace have done a fantastic job in making sure that that system continues to function.

However, we've learnt over many, many years that there can sometimes be improvements to the way we have always done things. We can see, as we move into a digital, online world, that statutory declarations ought to move that way as well. It's great to see that we are all moving online in a way that will maintain the rigour of what statutory declarations are designed to do.

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