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Notaries Act, 1952 Section 14

Title: Reciprocal Arrangements for Recognition of Notarial Acts Done by Foreign Notaries

State: Central

Year: 1952

If the Central Government is satisfied that by the law or practice of any country or place outside India, the notarial acts done by notaries within India are recognised for all or any limited purposes in that country or place, the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, declare that the notarial acts lawfully done by notaries within such country or place shall be recognised within India for all purposes or, as the case may be, for such limited purposes as may be specified in the notification.

Notaries Act, 1952 Section 8

Title: Functions of Notaries

State: Central

Year: 1952

.....effect in any country or place outside India in such form and language as may conform to the law of the place where such deed is intended to operate; (h) translate, and verify the translation of, any document from one language into another; 2["(ha) act as a Commissioner to record evidence in any civil or criminal trial if so directed by any court or authority; (hb) act as an arbitrator, mediator or conciliator, if so required;".] (i) any other act which may be prescribed. (2) No act specified in Sub-section (2) shall be deemed to be a notarial act except when it is done by a notary under his signature and official seal. __________________________________ 1. For the meaning of 'protest', see Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 (26 of 1881), Section 100. 2. Inserted by the Notaries (Amdt) Act, 1999 w.e.f. 17-12-1999.

Notaries Act, 1952 Section 12

Title: Penalty for Falsely Representing to Be a Notary, Etc.

State: Central

Year: 1952

Any person who-- (a) falsely represents that he is a notary without being appointed as such, or (b) practises as a notary or does any notarial act in contravention of Section 9, shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to1ne year] or with fine, or with both. _______________________________ 1. Substituted for "three months" by the Notaries (Amdt) Act, 1999 w.e.f. 17-12-1999.

Notaries Act, 1952 Preamble 1

Title: Notaries Act, 1952

State: Central

Year: 1952

THE NOTARIES ACT, 1952 [Act, No. 53 of 1952] [9th August, 1952] PREAMBLE An Act to regulate the profession of notaries. BE it enacted by Parliament as follows:--

Notaries Act, 1952 Section 11

Title: Construction of References to Notaries Public in Other Laws

State: Central

Year: 1952

Any reference to a notary public in any other law shall be construed as a reference to a notary entitled to practice under this Act.

Notaries Act, 1952 Section 3

Title: Power to Appoint Notaries

State: Central

Year: 1952

The Central Government, for the whole or any part of India, and any State Government, for the whole or any part of the State, may appoint as notaries any legal practitioners or other persons who possess such qualifications as may be prescribed.

Notaries Act, 1952 Section 6

Title: Annual Publication of Lists of Notaries

State: Central

Year: 1952

The Central Government and every State Government shall, during the month of January each year, publish in the Official Gazette a list of notaries appointed by that Government and in practice at the beginning of that year together with such details pertaining to them as may be prescribed.

Notaries Act, 1952 Section 7

Title: Seal of Notaries

State: Central

Year: 1952

Every notary shall have and use, as occasion may arise, a seal of such form and design as may be prescribed.

Notaries Act, 1952 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1952

.....every State Government shall maintain, in such form as may be prescribed, a Register of the notaries appointed by that Government and entitled to practise as such under this Act. (2) Every such Register shall include the following particulars about the notary whose name is entered therein, namely :- (a) his full name, date of birth, residential and professional address; (b) the date on which his name is entered in the Register; (c) his qualifications; and (d) any other particulars which may be prescribed. State Amendments SECTION 04A: SPECIAL PROVISION REGARDING REGISTERED NOTARIES OF GUJARAT (1) Notwithstanding anything contained in this Act, the State Government of Gujarat shall prepare in the form prescribed for a Register required to be maintained under section 4-, a Register of Notaries for the State of Gujarat as hereinafter provided. (2) The State Government of Gujarat shall, by an order published in the Official Gazette, enter in the Register the names of notaries and all particulars relating thereto appearing in the Register maintained immediately before the 1st May, 1960 by the State Government of Bombay (hereinafter referred to as 'the Bombay Register') after.....

Notaries Act, 1952 Section 15

Title: Power to Make Rules

State: Central

Year: 1952

.....as a notary may be required to furnish; 1["(c) the fees payable for appointment as a notary and for the issue and renewal of a certificate of practice, area of practice or enlargement of area of practice and exemption whether wholly or in part, from such fees in specified classes of cases;".] (d) the fees payable to a notary for doing any notarial act; (e) the form of Registers and the particulars to be entered therein; (f) the form and design of the seal of a notary (g) the manner in which inquiries into allegations of professional or other misconduct of notaries may be made; (h) the acts which a notary may do in addition to those specified in Section 8 and the manner in which a notary may perform his functions; (i) any other matter which has to be, or may be prescribed. 2[(3) Every rule made by the Central Government under this Act shall be laid as soon as may be after it is made, before each House of Parliament, while it is in session, for a total period of thirty days which may be comprised in one session or in two or more successive sessions and if before the expiry of the session immediately following the session or the successive sessions aforesaid, both.....