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Third
Session, 45th General Assembly 55
Elizabeth II, 2006 |
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AN ACT TO AMEND THE
NOTARIES PUBLIC ACT |
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Received and Read the First Time................................................................................................... |
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Second |
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Committee............................................................................................................................................ |
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Third |
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Royal Assent...................................................................................................................................... |
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HONOURABLE
Minister of Justice and Attorney General |
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Ordered
to be printed by the Honourable House of Assembly |
EXPLANATORY NOTE This Bill would amend the Notaries Public Act to provide that a
member of the law society who is suspended or disbarred automatically has his
or her designation as a notary public revoked. |
A AN ACT TO AMEND THE NOTARIES PUBLIC ACT Analysis 1.
S.5 R&S Be it enacted by the Lieutenant-Governor and House of Assembly in Legislative Session convened, as follows: RSNL1990 cN-5 1. Section 5 of the Notaries Public Act is repealed and the following substituted: Revocation of appointment 5. (1) The Minister of Justice, without assigning a reason for doing so, may revoke the appointment of a notary public. (2) The appointment of a notary public who is a
member of the Law Society of Newfoundland and (3) The revocation of an appointment referred to in subsection (2) takes effect on the date the suspension or disbarment under the Law Society Act, 1999 takes effect. (4) A person whose appointment as a notary public is revoked under subsection (1) or (2) shall surrender his or her seal to the Minister of Justice and shall return to the minister his or her certificate of appointment. (5) A person appointed as a notary public before July 1, 1957, shall, where his or her appointment is revoked, return to the minister his or her certificate of appointment or other evidence of the appointment issued to that person. (6) A person who refuses or fails to surrender his
or her seal or to return his or her certificate or other evidence of
appointment as required under subsection (4) or (5), or who, after the revocation
of his or her appointment, uses or exercises the powers conferred upon a notary
public by this Act is guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to
a fine not exceeding $100. ŠEarl G. Tucker, Queen's Printer |