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Non-teaching Statutory Declaration Form

  • 28-12-2012 12:19pm
    #1
    VampiricPadraig
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 632 ✭✭✭


    Hi folks.

    I am about to start a 6-month internship at a primary school in a non-teaching position.

    I got a Statutory Declaration form from my employer and have been asked to fill it in. The form in question is on Page 12 of this .pdf

    Now, before I go to the Notary Public, do I have to fill in the top part.
    I <MY NAME> of, <MY ADDRESS> in the county of <MY COUNTY>

    Any help would be appreciated. Thank you all in advance :)


Comments

  • #2
    Tom Young
    Legal Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 4,338 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tom Young


    Yes.


  • #3
    VampiricPadraig
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 632 ✭✭✭VampiricPadraig


    Tom Young wrote: »
    Yes.

    Couldn't have been any simpler eh?

    Thanks Tom :D


  • #4
    dats_right
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,169 ✭✭✭dats_right


    I am not sure that a Notary Public can witness a Statutory Declaration, as far as I know it must be either a Commissioner for Oaths or a practising solicitor.


  • #5
    VampiricPadraig
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 632 ✭✭✭VampiricPadraig


    dats_right wrote: »
    I am not sure that a Notary Public can witness a Statutory Declaration, as far as I know it must be either a Commissioner for Oaths or a practising solicitor.

    Please refer to the link to the .pdf in the OP.

    At the bottom of Page 12, it clearly show "Notary Public".

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  • #6
    dats_right
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,169 ✭✭✭dats_right


    VampiricPadraig wrote: »
    Please refer to the link to the .pdf in the OP.

    At the bottom of Page 12, it clearly show "Notary Public".

    In my experience of witnessing a dozen or so statutory declarations every month, I can assure you that forms like this are frequently wrong so I would not be influenced by that one way or the other. Anyway, I have since my last post checked the Statutory Declarations Act 1938 and it would seem that a Notary Public can also take statutory declarations.


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  • #7
    vector
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,756 ✭✭✭vector


    dats_right wrote: »
    In my experience of witnessing a dozen or so statutory declarations every month, I can assure you that forms like this are frequently wrong so I would not be influenced by that one way or the other. Anyway, I have since my last post checked the Statutory Declarations Act 1938 and it would seem that a Notary Public can also take statutory declarations.

    A Notary Public can indeed witness a Statutory Declaration but if you are located in Ireland, and your document is for use in Ireland then to use a Notary would be overkill.

    A Notary is supposed to sign documents that are being sent abroad only, and hence they charge more. The competition authority forbids the setting of a fee but I have heard amounts of EUR 40-60 mentioned per signature.

    The Faculty of Notaries have a rule that if a Notary is asked to sign a document which could also be signed by a lesser Commissioner for Oaths they they should do so wearing their Commissioner for Oaths hat, unless the customer insists that a more expensive Notary signature is needed.

    Interestingly, on the topic of many forms being incorrect I must agree. What especially annoys me is when some Statutory Declarations have "Garda" as a signatory option. A Garda is certainly not empowered under the Stat Dec Act 1938. Yet in some CoCo tenders they are an option.


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