9Signing or executing documents other than deeds and statutory declarations

9  Signing or executing documents other than deeds and statutory declarations

 (a) this instrument permits or requires a person to give the ACMA or the auction manager a document; and

 (b) that document is required to be signed or executed; and

 (c) the document is not required to be made as a statutory declaration or executed as a deed;

  then, unless the contrary intention appears, the document may be signed or executed electronically.

 (a) this instrument permits or requires a person to give the ACMA or the auction manager a document; and

 (b) that document is not a statutory declaration or a deed; and

 (c) that document is required to be signed or executed; and

 (d) the signature or execution is required to be witnessed;

  then, unless the contrary intention appears, the signature or execution may be witnessed by audio-visual link, if the person witnessing the signature or execution (witness):

 (e) observes the person signing or executing the document (signatory) doing so in real time; and

 (f) confirms the signature or execution was witnessed by signing the document or a copy of the document; and

 (g) is reasonably satisfied that the document the witness signs is the same document, or a copy of the document, signed or executed by the signatory; and

 (h) endorses the document, or the copy of the document, with a statement specifying the method used to witness the signature or execution of the signatory.

Note: Other Commonwealth legislation, and State and Territory legislation, may allow for deeds or statutory declarations to be signed or executed electronically, or for the signature or execution of deeds or statutory declarations to be witnessed by audio-visual link or by other means.