NOTARY PUBLIC

Md. Kabir Hossain, the principal lawyer of Dhaka law firm is a Notary Public and solicitor as whole of Bangladesh . DLF provide Notary Services for Individual , Organization or Institution where they required for any declaration, attestation, documentation including marriage certificate, birth and death certificate, academic certificate etc. In case of emergency Notary DLF prepare papers and documents for bank N.G.O. As a solicitor DLF provides emergency service for police, foreigners, administration and other bodies. Notaries ordinance, 1961 and the Notaries Rules, 1964 regulate the profession of the notaries in Bangladesh under which a person is appointed as Notary, Generally, a person who has been practicing as a lawyers for a term not less than seven years or had been a member of Judicial service for a term not less than five years or had been serving as a Government servant in the legislative drafting and Law making process of the Government are eligible for appointment as a Notary.

A notary may do all or any of the following acts by virtue of his office, namely:-

• Verify, authenticate, certify or attest the execution of any instrument.
• Present any promissory note, hundi or bill of exchange for acceptance of payment or demand better security.
• Administer oath to, or take affidavit from any person.
• Prepare bottomry and respondantia bonds, charter parties and other mercantile documents.
• Prepare, attest or authenticate any instrument intended to take effect in any country or place outside Bangladesh in such form and language as may conform to the law of the place where such deed is intended to operate;
• Translate, and verify the translation of, any document from one language into another.

Power

Under the amended Notary Public Law, notaries public are empowered to administer oaths and affirmations, certify copies and take depositions, affidavits, verifications, upon oath or affirmation and acknowledgments. Any person who is convicted of having willfully and knowingly made or taken a false oath, affirmation, deposition, affidavit, certification or acknowledgment before any notary public shall be guilty of perjury and subject to criminal penalties. When notarizing documents the notary public must include a statement showing when, where and before whom it was sworn.. The Notary Public Law requires the notary to impress the rubber stamp seal "in a prominent place on the official notarial certificate near the notary's signature. Since a notary commission is granted to a particular individual, a notary public cannot delegate notaries authority to another person. A notary public's commission is not transferable, even on a temporary basis. It is prohibited to permit another.