What must the Statutory Declaration declare?
Applicants are reminded that under Australian laws, a person who wilfully makes a false statement in a statutory declaration is guilty of an offence and may be fined or jailed, or both. When a SPL applicant submits a statutory declaration in lieu of an original document as evidence of meeting one of the requirements listed under CAO 40.0.8(b), the applicant must nominate the specific requirement of the CAO that is being addressed. This is mandatory before the statutory declaration can be accepted by CASA as evidence of meeting CAO 40.0.8(b). Thus, if the applicant is addressing the education standard they must explicitly state they completed their secondary education, or are still attending a secondary education institution, and must name the school attended, its address, years of attendance and, where possible, contact details. CASA may verify the details provided in a statutory declaration with the named institution. Eg. “I declare I have completed 5 years of secondary schooling at A
