What is the difference between an original birth certificate and a certified copy?
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What is the difference between an original birth certificate and a certified copy?
What makes a Certified Birth Certificate Official? The number one difference between official and informational birth certificate copies is a registrar’s seal. Most importantly it will be notarized (signed and dated) by the registrar. Certified copies can be used to prove identity for any reason.
How do I make a true copy?
To certify a document simply take a photocopied copy and the original and ask the person to certify the copy by:Writing ‘Certified to be a true copy of the original seen by me’ on the document.Signing and dating it.Printing their name under the signature.Adding their occupation, address and telephone number.
Can police officer certify documents Australia?
The most common authorised persons are police officers, school principals and pharmacists. The authorised person must write on EVERY PAGE of the photocopied document: ‘I have sighted the original document and certify this to be a true copy of the original’.
Can police officers certify documents?
A barrister, solicitor or patent attorney. A police officer. A postal manager. A principal of an Australian secondary college, high school or primary school.
What do I write on a certified copy?
Certify copiesMake a copy of the original document.Take the original document and your copy to the certifier.They will check your copy is the same as the original.On a single-page document, the certifier must write or stamp, ‘This is a certified true copy of the original as sighted by me’
