If you don’t have a New Zealand Driver’s Licence or New Zealand Passport, we accept alternative document based verification.
All documents provided must be certified as true and correct by an authorised trusted referee, within the last 3 months, with words to the following effect:
I, [full name of trusted referee], as [select appropriate person from authorised list below], certify that this [name of document] is a true copy of the original [signature and date].
What documentation we accept:
Document Type | Documentation |
Primary Photographic Identification Documents |
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Primary non-Photographic Identification Documents |
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Secondary Identification Documents |
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Address Documents |
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*The document must include your name and residential address, and the document must not be older than 12 months from the date of your Afterpay sign-up process.
Who is classified as an authorised trusted referee?
A trusted referee must be at least 16 years of age and sight the original documents. Approved and authorised trusted referees include the following:
- Commonwealth representative (as defined in the Oaths and Declarations Act 1957)
- Member of the police
- Justice of the peace
- Registered medical doctor
- Kaumātua (as verified through a reputable source)
- Registered teacher
- Minister of religion
- Lawyer (as defined in the Lawyers and Conveyancers Act 2006)
- Notary public
- New Zealand Honorary consul
- Member of Parliament
- Chartered accountant (within the meaning of section 19 of the New Zealand Institute of Chartered Accountants Act 1996)
- A person who has the legal authority to take statutory declarations in New Zealand
A trustee cannot be
- Related to you, for example a trusted referee cannot be your parent, child, brother, sister, aunt, uncle or cousin; or
- Your spouse or partner; or
- A person who lives at the same address as you.