AusCheck (Category A identification documents) Determination 2020 (Cth)

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

Part 1—­Preliminary

1 Name This instrument is the AusCheck (Category A identification documents) Determination 2020.

2 Commencement This instrument commences on the day after this instrument is registered.

3 Authority 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.

5 Schedules Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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)