Who can certify documents for registration?
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Date Updated: 2025-09-12
When you apply for medical registration, you may be asked to submit certified documents and the people who can certify these documents depends on where you are located, in or out of Australia!
In or outside Australia
- A health practitioner who is registered in Australia, specifically:
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Practitioner
- Chinese medicine practitioner
- Chiropractor
- Dental practitioner
- Medical practitioner
- Medical radiation practitioner
- Midwife
- Nurse
- Occupational therapist
- Optometrist
- Osteopath
- Paramedic
- Pharmacist
- Physiotherapist
- Podiatrist
- Psychologist
- Legal professions:
- Legal practitioner: Lawyer, Solicitor, or Barrister
- Patent attorney
- Trade marks attorney
In Australia
- Public servant: federal, state or territory or local – employed for five years or more.
- Teacher (full-time or part-time) at a school or tertiary education institution
- Court positions: bailiff, justice of the peace, judge, magistrate, registrar or deputy registrar, clerk, master of a court, CEO of a Commonwealth court
- Commissioner for Affidavits, or Commissioner for Declarations (dependent on jurisdictions)
- Elected government representative: federal, state or territory or local
- Bank officer, building society officer, credit union officer, finance company officer – employed for five years or more
- Veterinary surgeon
- Accountant (member of ICA, ASA, IPA or CPA, ATMA, NTAA)
- Minister of religion, or marriage celebrant
- Notary public
- Holder of a statutory office not specified in another item in this list
- Police officer
- Sheriff or sheriff’s officer
- Member of:
- Chartered Secretaries Australia
- Engineers Australia, other than students
- Australian Defence Force (an officer; or a non-commissioned officer with five or more years of continuous service; a warrant officer)
- Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy
Outside Australia
- Notary public
- Employee of the Commonwealth or the Australian Trade Commission who works outside Australia
- Justice of the peace
- Australian Consular Officer or Australian Diplomatic Officer (within the meaning of the Consular Fees Act 1955).
We Can Help You
Here at People Medical Consulting, we have a passion for guiding medical practitioners through their career pathways to Australia. We have extensive experience in assisting medical facilities in recruiting doctors from local and overseas who will best suit their requirements.
We provide Document Assistance for those requiring support for their PESCI with IME, ACRRM or RACGP, registration and all other mandatory AHPRA requirements, fellowship program related forms and letters, application for Medicare provider and prescriber numbers, application for 19AB or 19AA exemptions and preparation of employment documents.
If you want to talk to someone about your pathway or practice management—book a consultation with us below, or if you need Recruitment or Document Assistance, contact us at help@peoplemedical.com.au or click the buttons below. We’d be glad to help you!
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