Allowing documents to be in electronic form, and to be executed using e-signatures, is expected to save businesses and individuals around $400 million.
Australians will soon be able to renew their passports online through myGov as the government prepares legislation to enable statutory declarations and deeds to be executed digitally in a uniform manner across the country.
Modernising document execution would see the end of the centuries-old practice of paper-based deeds and statutory declarations, which require all parties to sign in wet ink and to have the documents attested before physical witnesses.The move to digitise statutory declarations and deeds opens the way for several other government services that rely on so-called “solemn” documents, to be completed online, including passport renewal and election enrolment.
The development work to digitise document execution is being undertaken by the Finance department, which has picked up the previous deregulation programme from the Prime Minister’s department. Commercial and personal transactions regularly cross borders and previous attempts to streamline document execution have been thwarted by the lack of uniform laws across all nine jurisdictions.
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