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A - Z of the Justice of the Peace Handbook

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A

Absences

Access to services

Advance care directive

Advance statements under Mental Health Act

Affidavit, certificate identifying exhibit template

Affidavit template

Affidavits

Affidavits, checklist

Affirmations

Appointment as JP

Assessing decision-making capacity or free will

Attorney, powers of

Authenticity of documents

Authorised witnesses

Availability and absences

C

Capacity, decision-making

Certificate identifying exhibit - affidavit template 

Certificate identifying exhibit - statutory declaration template

Certification offences

Certification of exhibits

Certifying a copy of a document, checklist

Certifying a copy of a certified copy, checklist

Certifying a mulitple page copy, checklist

Certifying documents

Certifying electronic documents

Challenging scenarios, managing

Change of circumstance

Checklists

Code of conduct, Honorary Justices

Competency

Complaints and removal from office

Confidentiality, upholding

Conflicts of interest

Contact list

Criminal history checks

Cultural and linguistic diversity

D

Decision-making capacity

Disability, witnessing for people living with a

Discrimination

Document Signing Stations (DSS)

Documents, authenticity

Documents, certifying

Documents, interstate

Documents, overseas

Documents, witnessing

E

Electronic signing

Electronic documents, certifying

Exhibits, certification

F

False statement

Fees, gratuities, patronages or rewards

Free will

G

Glossary

Gratuities

H

Harassment

History of Justices of the Peace

HJSS (Honorary Justice Service Support)

Honorary Justices Code of Conduct

I

ID badge, photo

Identity, validating

Influence, using it appropriately

Interpreter, witnessing through an

Interstate and overseas documents

J

JP, limits of role

JP stamp

JP title, use of

JP, using your influence appropriately

JP, your appointment as a

L

Legislation

Limits of JP role

Linguistic diversity

Listings of JPs

Locating a JP

M

Managing challenging scenarios

Managing complaints

Media inquiries

Medical decision-making

Mental Health Act 2014

N

National criminal history checks

Nominations under the Mental Health Act

Notaries

O

Offence Schedule for oaths and affirmations

Offences, certification

Offences in relation to statutory declarations

Online witnessing

Online witnessing, checklist

Oath of office

Oath or affirmation

Overseas documents

P

Photo ID badge

Power of attorney

Practice Notes

Privacy and confidentiality, upholding

Public listing of JPs

R

Referral contact list

Remote and online witnessing, checklist

Remote appointments

Removal from office, grounds for

Resignation

Rewards

S

Signing, electronic

Statutory declarations

Statutory declaration, certificate identifying exhibit template

Stamp, The JP

Statutory declaration template

Support for JPs

T

Templates

Titles, use of

V

Validating a person's identity

Variation to documents, checklist

Victorian honorary justice associations

W

Wellbeing service

Witnesses, authorised

Witnessing a nomination

Witnessing an advance statement

Witnessing documents

Witnessing documents, general checklist

Witnessing English-language documents for
a non-English speaking person

Witnessing for people living with a disability

Witnessing, online

Witnessing through an interpreter

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