South Australian Consolidated Acts South Australian Consolidated Acts67—Extension of provisions relating to affidavits to attestation etc of
other documents
(1) The provisions of
section 66 and 66A shall, as far as applicable, extend to every
attestation, verification, acknowledgment, or signature in relation to any
document required, authorised, or permitted by or under any statute or by
custom or otherwise to be attested, verified, acknowledged, or signed, and to
the doing of all notarial acts as if such provisions had been re-enacted in
this section, excluding words relating to the administration of oaths or
affirmations and the taking of affidavits and substituting therefor words
relating to attestation, verification, acknowledgment, or signature, as the
case may be.
(1a) Notwithstanding
the provisions of section 66 of this Act as affected by
subsection (1) of this section, judicial and official notice may be taken
of the signature or seal of a person who, in connection with any of the
matters to which those provisions so extend, appears to have signed that
signature or affixed that seal while acting in the capacity of a notary public
under the law for the time being in force in any country state or territory
that is declared by proclamation to be a place within the Commonwealth of
Nations to which this subsection applies, whether or not his authority for so
acting has been verified in accordance with the provisions of
subsection (3) of section 66 as so extended.
(1b) A proclamation
referred to in subsection (1a) of this section may be made, and may be
varied or cancelled by subsequent proclamation, as the Governor thinks fit.
(2) "Notarial act"
includes any act, matter, or thing which in South Australia or elsewhere a
notary public can attest or verify or otherwise do by or under any Act of
Parliament or custom or otherwise for the purpose of being used in the State.
(3) The provisions of
this section apply to documents required, authorised, or permitted by or under
the Real Property Act 1886 .