Aussies push digitization out to statutory declarations

In Australia, good, old-fashioned paper-based statutory declarations are still legal. But the federal government has made digital stat decs just as legal.

The ramifications are mostly time related. Attorney General Mark Dreyfus issued a statement according to Australian news publisher The Mandarin that until this change, 9 million hours were spent annually shuffling 3.8 million stat decs.

The documents are not sworn statements, but the two have similar roles. The best example might be facilitating a name change, but they …

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