Identification Requirements

Extract from the Registrar's 'Identification Requirements Policy'

For a copy of the full policy, please contact the Births, Deaths and Marriages Registries.

How to Prove your Identity

Primary sources:

• Current NT driver’s licence with photo
• Current Australian passport
• Current document of Identity issued by the Passports Office
• Current Defence Force or Police Service photo ID card

If the above forms of identification are not available, at least two other forms of identification must be produced.

At least one form of ID must be produced from List 1:

List 1:

• NT proof of age card from Motor Vehicle Registry
• Current overseas passport with current entry permit
• Naturalisation / citizenship / immigration papers issued by the Department of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs
• Current consular photo identity card issued by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
• Current student photo identity card
• Current photo driver’s licence from another State or Territory
• Australian passport or document of identity expired within the last two years
• Baptismal certificate
• Letter of identity from an Aboriginal community or other recognised cultural group
• NT Security identification

List 2:

• Current medicare card
• Current entitlement card issued by the Commonwealth Government (pensions etc)
• Current credit card, account card, passbook or account statement
• Current telephone, electricity-water rates, council rates account with evidence of payment
• Current life insurance / house or contents insurance policy with evidence of payment
• Current student identity card or statement of enrolment
• Current apprenticeship / traineeship papers
• Current vehicle registration papers
• Evidence of change of name
• Registered mortgage papers / title or deeds to real estate
• Defence Force discharge papers issued within the last two years
• Electoral enrolment card issued within the last two years
• School or other educational report less than twelve months old
• Taxation assessment notice from the last year
• Expired driver’s licence within the last two years

Other forms of identification may be accepted at the discretion of the Registry staff

 

For further information, email RegistrarGeneral.DOJ@nt.gov.au