40Verification of information etc

40 Verification of information etc (1) Subject to the Act and these Regulations, the Registrar may, in relation to any document lodged with or provided to the Registrar for noting: (a) require the verification, by statutory declaration or otherwise, of: (i) the authenticity of the document; or (ii) any information contained in the document; (b) require the submission of further documents or information in support of, or in substitution for, a document, or information, referred to in paragraph (a); and (c) refuse to make an entry in the Register, or to perform any function or exercise any power under the Act or these Regulations, to which a requirement under paragraph (a) relates until that requirement is satisfied. (2) A requirement under paragraph (1) (a) or (b) must be set out in a notice in writing signed by or on behalf of the Registrar and given to: (a) the person by whom the document to which the requirement relates was lodged with, or produced to, the Registrar; or (b) the person, or any one of the persons, in whose interest that document was so lodged or produced. (3) A notice setting out a requirement under subregulation (1) for the verification of information relating to the identity, nationality or residential status of a person may require: (a) that the verification be by a statutory declaration by a person other than the person to whom it relates who has known the last‑mentioned person for a period of no less duration than that specified in the notice; and (b) that such a statutory declaration specify the period during which the declarant has known the person to whom it relates.