Identification Requirements
Identification Requirements for Signatories to Accounts
In accordance with relevant Acts of Parliament, all financial institutions must prove your identity when you become a signatory of an account. These procedures will occur once only for each signatory and information provided will apply to all accounts which are held by the applicant/s.
Identity Verification Requirements
All account signatories are required to provide:- One document from List A or
- Two documents; one from List B and one from List C
Documents must be either original documents, or certified copies. (Refer to list of persons who can certify copies).
- Photo driver’s licence issued by a State or Territory
- Photo ID card issued by a State or Territory
- Current Passport (or expired within the last 2 years) issued by the Commonwealth of Australia
- Passport, with a photo of the person, issued by a foreign government, the United Nations or a UN agency
- Birth Certificate issued by a State or Territory
- Birth extract issued by a State or Territory
- Citizen certificate issued by the Commonwealth of Australia
- Pension card issued by Centrelink
- A notice that:
- was issued by the Australian Taxation Office within the last 12 months
- containing the name of the individual and his or her residential address; and
- records a debt payable to or by the individual by or to the Commonwealth under a taxation law.
- A notice that:
- was issued to an individual by a local government body or utilities provider within the last 3 months
- containing the name of the individual and his or her residential address; and
- records the provision of services by that local government body or utilities provider to that address or to that person.
- A legal practitioner
- A court judge or magistrate
- A Justice of the Peace
- A notary public
- A police officer
- A permanent employee of the Australian Postal Corporation with 2 or more years service
- An officer with 2 or more continuous years of service with one or more financial institutions
- A member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia, CPA Australia or the National Institute of Accountants with 2 or more years of continuous membership
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