Can notaries provide notarization services beyond the working hours in Vietnam?

Can notaries provide notarization services beyond the working hours in Vietnam?

Pursuant to Article 32 of the Law on Notary 2014 there are provisions on rights of notarial practice organizations as follows:

1. To sign employment contracts or labor contracts with notaries prescribed at Points a and c, Clause 1, Article 34 of this Law and other employees.

2. To collect notarization charges, notarization remuneration and other expenses.

3. To provide notarization services beyond the working hours applicable to state administrative agencies to meet people’s notarization demands.

4. To exploit and use information from the notarization database prescribed in Article 62 of this Law.

5. To exercise other rights as prescribed by this Law and other relevant legal documents.

As such, notarial practice organizations are entitled to provide notarization services for you outside the working hours of state administrative agencies in Vietnam.

Can notaries notarize outside the head office of a notarial practice organization in Vietnam?

Pursuant to Article 44 of the Law on Notary 2014, there are regulations on notarization places as follows:

1. Except the cases specified in Clause 2 of this Article, notarization shall be conducted at head offices of notarial practice organizations.

2. Notarization may be conducted outside the head office of a notarial practice organization if the notarization requester is old and weak and cannot move, is held in custody or in prison, is serving an imprisonment sentence or has another plausible reason for being unable to come to the head office of the notarial practice organization.

According to this Article, notaries may notarize outside the head office of a notarial practice organizations in some special cases as prescribed above in Vietnam.

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