AusCheck (Category A identification documents) Determination 2020
I, Michael Pezzullo AO, Secretary of the Department of Home Affairs, make this instrument under section 5AA of the AusCheck Regulations 2017.
Dated 02 November 2020
Michael Pezzullo AO
Department of Home Affairs
This instrument is the AusCheck (Category A identification documents) Determination 2020.
This instrument commences on the day after this instrument is registered.
This instrument is made under section 5AA of the AusCheck Regulations 2017 (the regulations).
4 Category A identification documents
Schedule 1 to this instrument determines the class of Category A identification documents for the purpose of section 5AA of the regulations.
Note: If a document of the class determined in Schedule 1 cannot be verified electronically by AusCheck for the purpose of a background check, subparagraph 5(1)(m)(ia) of the regulations provides that AusCheck can use details of one or more of the applicants Category B identification documents or Category C identification documents to verify electronically the individual’s identity for the purposes of a background check.
Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.
Schedule 1—Category A identification documents
Item | Category A identification documents |
1 | A birth certificate issued by the Government of Tasmania and registered before 1970 |
2 | A birth certificate issued by the Government of Norfolk Island |
3 | A birth certificate issued by the Government of New South Wales before 1952 (where the birth certificate only contains a district number) |
4 | A birth certificate showing the person’s place of birth as Christmas Island, which was issued before 1993 |
5 | A birth certificate showing the person’s place of birth as the Cocos (Keeling) Islands, which was registered before 1977 |
6 | Special Category visas |
7 | Queensland birth certificates registered before 1941 |
8 | A birth certificate issued by the Government of Tasmania where the person whose birth is recorded on the birth certificate is identified by only a single name (being either a first name or a surname but not both). |
9 | A birth certificate issued by the Government of Queensland where the person whose birth is recorded on the birth certificate is identified by only a single name (being either a first name or a surname but not both). |
10 | A birth certificate showing a person’s birth in South Australia and which was issued by the districts of Adelaide, Angaston, Burra, Clare, Daly, Encounter Bay, Flinders, Frome, Gawler, Gilbert, Grey, Hindmarsh, Kapunda, Mount Barker, Murray, Norwood, Pinnaroo, Pirie, Port Adelaide, Robe, Talunga and Willunga. |