✅ Grow can certify your identity for the purpose of transferring super from an industry / retail super fund to your SMSF.
Clients of Grow can use our secure online ID certification form.
❌ Grow cannot certify your identity for the purpose of opening a new Macquarie account or when Grow is being provided with read-only accountant access to your account.
Macquarie CMA certification of identification documents
When opening a Macquarie CMA for your SMSF, Macquarie will request your driver's licence or passport details to complete an electronic verification of your identity.
When electronic identification fails, you will be required to provide independently certified identification.
Who else can certify your ID?
a legal practitioner/lawyer;
a judge of a court;
a magistrate;
a CEO of Commonwealth court;
a registrar or deputy registrar of a court;
a Justice of the Peace;
a notary public (for the purposes of the Statutory Declaration Regulations 1993);
a police officer;
an agent of the Australian Postal Corporation who is in charge of an office supplying postal services to the public;
a permanent employee of the Australian Postal Corporation with two or more years of continuous service who is employed in an office supplying postal services to the public;
an Australian consular officer or an Australian diplomatic officer (within the meaning of the Consular Fees Act 1955);
an officer with two or more continuous years of service with one or more financial institutions (for the purposes of the Statutory Declaration Regulations 1993);
a finance company officer with two or more continuous years of service with one or more finance companies (for the purposes of the Statutory Declaration Regulations 1993);
an officer with, or authorised representative of, a holder of an Australian financial services licence, having two or more continuous years of service with one or more licensees, or
a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia, CPA Australia or the National Institute of Accountants with two or more years of continuous membership.
What documents can be certified?
Part I – acceptable primary photographic ID documents
Provide ONE valid option from this section only (all documents must contain a photograph of the person):
Australian State/Territory driver's licence (both sides of the driver's licence)
Australian passport (a passport that has expired within the preceding 2 years is acceptable)
Card issued under a State or Territory for the purpose of proving a person’s age
-- OR --
Part II – acceptable secondary ID documents
SHOULD ONLY BE PROVIDED IF YOU DO NOT OWN A DOCUMENT FROM PART I
Provide ONE valid option from this section:
Australian birth certificate
Australian citizenship certificate
Pension card issued by the Department of Human Services
AND ONE valid option from this section (all documents must contain the person’s name and residential address):
A document issued by the Commonwealth or a State or Territory within the preceding 12 months that records the provision of financial benefits to the person
A document issued by the Australian Taxation Office within the preceding 12 months that records a debt payable by the person to the Commonwealth (or by the Commonwealth to the person)
A document issued by a local government body or utility provider within the preceding 3 months that records the provision of services to that address or to that person
-- OR --
Part III – acceptable foreign photographic ID documents
SHOULD ONLY BE PROVIDED IF YOU DO NOT OWN A DOCUMENT FROM PART I OR PART II
Provide ONE valid option from this section only (all documents must be current and contain a photograph of the person):
Foreign driver's licence that also contains the person’s date of birth
National ID card issued by a foreign government that also contains the signature of the person
A foreign passport or similar travel document also contains the signature of the person
Questions on ID certification
If you have any questions please contact us.