The Business Council of Australia (BCA) welcomes the opportunity to make a submission to the Modernising Document Execution: Consultation on proposed reform to the execution of Commonwealth statutory declarations.

The BCA supports the proposal to amend the Statutory Declarations Act 1959 and the Statutory Declarations Regulations 2018 to provide a paper-based, e-execution and digital pathway for statutory declaration execution. The proposal is consistent with bringing government frameworks into the digital age and allowing businesses and individuals to use the option that best suits them, in turn improving their productivity.

Read the full letter here.