Notaries Public and Notarial Functions (Amendment) Act, 2009

This section gives the Act’s short title and says it must be read together with the principal Act.

Jurisdiction: Zambia
Instrument: Act or statute
Citation: Act 23 of 2009
Version: Undated source snapshot
Language: en
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This section gives the Act’s short title and says it must be read together with the principal Act. This section amends the principal Act by repealing section 31 and replacing it with a new section. The Registrar must enter qualifying legal practitioners’ names on the Roll of Notaries Public, and people already holding State Counsel rank are treated as appointed and enrolled as notaries public.

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This Act may be cited as the Notaries Public and Notarial Short title
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This section gives the Act’s short title and says it must be read together with the principal Act.

1. This Act may be cited as the Notaries Public and Notarial Short title Functions (Amendment) Act, 2009, and shall be read as one with the Notaries Public and Notarial Functions Act, in this Act referred Cap. 35 to as the principal Act.
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The principal Act is amended by the repeal of section thirty
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This section amends the principal Act by repealing section 31 and replacing it with a new section.

2. The principal Act is amended by the repeal of section thirty- one and the substitution therefor of the following new section:
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The Registrar must enter qualifying legal practitioners’ names on the Roll of Notaries Public, and people already holding State Counsel rank are treated as appointed and enrolled as notaries public.

31. ( 1) The Registrar shall, upon the grant to any legal practitioner of Letters Patent of the rank and dignity of State Counsel for Zambia, cause the name of the legal practitioner to be entered on the Rpll of Notaries Public. (2) A person who, on the commencement of this Act, . enjoys the rank and dignity of State Counsel for Zambia, shall be deemed to have been appointed and enrolled as notary public under, and for the purposes of, this Act. (3) The Registrar shall cause the name of a person referred to in subsection (2) to be entered on the Roll of Notaries Public upon the commencement of this Act. Repeal and replacement of section 31 State Counsel for Zambia to act as notaries Copies of this Act may be obtained from the Government Printe1� PO. Box 30136, Lusaka. Price KJOOO each. 348 \

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