notarial services
(b) common notarial tasks
The most common notarial tasks are:
- attesting, verifying, authenticating, certifying, signing and sealing:
- personal and company documents for use abroad
- documents for sale and purchase of property abroad
- powers of attorney and affidavits
- passports and academic qualifications
- marriage certificates and confirmation of single status (freedom to marry)
- copies of documents (but not if copyright will be infringed)
- translations of documents
- documents for opening bank accounts
- documents for emigration and immigration
- documents for foreign adoptions and sponsoring visitors to the UK
- documents for opening overseas offices and appointment agents
- documents for registering trademarks and patents internationally
- foreign trade agreements, contracts and tenders
- provision of separate certificates that documents attached to the certificate are originals (or copies, as the case may be)
- legalisation with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Foreign Embassies and Consulates
- dealing with documents in foreign languages
- witnessing signature of deeds and documents for use abroad
Notarising of a document involves checking the identity, authority, capacity and will of the person presenting the document and authenticating the relevant facts.
Hugh Anton-Stephens offers all these notarial services from his office Montgomery, Powys.