What is the information on the No. 1 Notary Office in Ho Chi Minh City? Is the No. 1 Notary Office in Ho Chi Minh City a public service provider?
What is the information on the No. 1 Notary Office in Ho Chi Minh City?
No. 1 Notary Office in Ho Chi Minh City is the first Notary Office in Vietnam established after 1975 under Decision 182/QD-UB dated September 21, 1988, of the People's Committee of Ho Chi Minh City.
At first, the No. 1 Notary Office was named the State Notary Office of Ho Chi Minh City under the People's Committee of Ho Chi Minh City.
In 1997, the No. 1 Notary Office was renamed to the No. 1 Notary Office State Notary Office under the Department of Justice of Ho Chi Minh City under Decision 1216/QD-UBB-NC dated 19/3/1997 of the City People's Committee, and in 2001, and was renamed to No. 1 Notary Office of Ho Chi Minh City under Decision 36/2001/QD-UB dated 26/4/2001 of the City People's Committee.
Contact Information
Address: 97 Pasteur Street, Ben Nghe Ward, District 1, HCMC
Phone: 028 3823 0177
E-mail: [email protected]
Source: Website of Notary Office No. 1 - Ho Chi Minh City
Is the No. 1 Notary Office in Ho Chi Minh City a public service provider?
Under the provisions of Article 19 of the Law on Notarization 2014, there are the following contents:
Notary offices
1. Notary offices shall be established under decisions of provincial-level People’s Committees.
2. Notary offices are public service providers attached to provincial-level Justice Departments, and have their own offices, seals and accounts.
The at-law representative of a Notary office is the head of such Notary office. Heads of Notary offices must be notaries and shall be appointed, relieved from duty and dismissed by chairpersons of provincial-level People’s Committees.
3. The name of a Notary office must contain the words “Notary office” followed by the ordinal number of its establishment and the name of the province or centrally run city where it is established.
4. Notary offices shall use seals bearing no national emblem. Notary offices may have their seals carved and use them after obtaining establishment decisions. Procedures and dossiers of request for seal carving and management and use of seals by Notary offices must comply with the law on seals.
Thus, according to the law, the notary office is a public service provider under the Department of Justice. Therefore, Notary Office No. 1 is a public service provider under the Department of Justice of Ho Chi Minh City.
What are the rights of notarial practice organizations in Vietnam?
Under the provisions of Article 32 of the Law on Notarization 2014, amended in Clause 9, Article 73 of the 2023 Price Law, the rights of notarial practice organizations in Vietnam are specified as follows:
- To sign employment contracts or labor contracts with notaries prescribed at Points a and c, Clause 1, Article 34 of Law on Notarization and other employees.
- To collect notarization charges, prices for on-demand notarization-related services and other expenses.
- To provide notarization services beyond the working hours applicable to state administrative agencies to meet people’s notarization demands.
- To exploit and use information from the notarization database prescribed in Article 62 of Law on Notarization.
- To exercise other rights as prescribed by Law on Notarization and other relevant legal documents.
In 2024, what is the top notarization remuneration limit in Ho Chi Minh City?
In Article 4 of the regulations on top notarization remuneration limit in Ho Chi Minh City issued together with Decision 08/2016/QD-UBND of the City People's Committee, the top notarization remuneration limit in Ho Chi Minh City 2024 is specified as follows:
Details of the top notarization remuneration limit in Ho Chi Minh City 2024 here
The Price Law 2023 has amended Article 67 of the Law on Notarization 2014 on notarization remuneration to prices for on-demand notarization-related services as follows:
- Notarization requesters shall pay prices for on-demand notarization-related services when requesting notarial practice organizations to draft contracts or transactions, typewrite or make copies, translate papers or documents, or perform other notarial jobs.
- People’s Committee of provinces shall determine the maximum prices for on-demand notarization-related services applicable to local notarial practice organizations. Notarial practice organizations shall determine specific prices for each job, which must not exceed the maximum prices promulgated by People’s Committees of provinces, and shall publicly post up such prices at their headquarters.
Notarial practice organizations that collect payments for prices for on-demand notarization-related services higher than the maximum and posted prices shall be handled as prescribed by laws.
- Notarial practice organizations shall explain the prices for on-demand notarization-related services to notarization requesters.
Thus, from July 1, 2024 (the effective date of the Price Law 2023), the regulation on notarization remuneration will be converted into prices for on-demand notarization-related services.
Therefore, from January 1, 2024 to before July 1, 2024, regulations on notarization remuneration in Ho Chi Minh City will still apply according to current regulations in Decision 08/2016/QD-UBND. However, from July 1, 2024, there may be new regulations to replace notarization remuneration with prices for on-demand notarization-related services.
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