Notarial Profession and Notarial Archives Act (Schedule)

L.N. 83 of 2014

NOTARIAL PROFESSION AND NOTARIAL ARCHIVES ACT

(CAP. 55)

Notarial Profession and Notarial Archives Act (Schedule)

(Amendment) Regulations, 2014

IN exercise of the powers conferred by article 146(2) of the

Notarial Profession and Notarial Archives Act, the Parliamentary

Secretary for Justice, in consultation with the Minister for Finance,

has made the following regulations:-

(1)

The title of these regulations is the Notarial Citation.

Profession and Notarial Archives Act (Schedule) (Amendment)

Regulations, 2014, and these regulations shall be read and construed

as one with the Schedule to the Notarial Profession and Notarial Cap. 55.

Archives Act, hereinafter referred to as "the Schedule".

(2) These regulations shall come into force on the 24th March,

2014.

Part II of the Schedule entitled "Fees Payable in the Amends Part II

of the Schedule.

Notarial Archives" shall be amended as follows

(a)

paragraph 46 thereof shall be amended as follows

(i) in subparagraph (i) thereof the words "of

twelve cents (€0.12)" shall be substituted by the words "of

ten cents (€0.10)";

(ii) in subparagraph (ii) thereof the words "one

euro and sixteen cents (€1.16)" shall be substituted by the

words "one euro and twenty cents (€1.20)";

(iii) in subparagraph (iii) thereof the words "forty-

seven cents (€0.47)" shall be substituted by the words

"fifty cents (€0.50)" and the words "one euro sixteen cents

(€1.16)" shall be substituted by the words "one euro and

twenty cents (€1.20)";

(iv) immediately after subparagraph (iv) thereof

there shall be inserted the following new subparagraph

"(v) For any digital copy of any notarial act or

part thereof deposited in the Archives, there shall be

charged a fee of twenty-five cents (€0.25) per

digitized page. The provision of digital copies of

notarial acts by the Archives does not imply the

transfer of any copyright therein to the recipients.

Any commercial use of such images requires the

written permission of the Archivist

Provided that digital copies of any such acts

which are requested by persons who are making

researches for a purely historical, literary or

scientific purpose and who are authorised as such, by

virtue of paragraph 49 hereof, shall be charged at the

reduced rate of ten cents (€0.10) per digitized page.";

(b)

in paragraph 47 thereof the words "fifty-eight cents

(€0.58)" shall be substituted by the words "sixty cents (€0.60)"

and the words "forty-seven cents (€0.47)" shall be substituted

by the words "fifty cents (€0.50);

(c)

in paragraph 48 thereof the words "twenty-three

cents (€0.23)" shall be substituted by the words "twenty-five

cents (€0.25)"; and

(d)

in paragraph 49 thereof the words immediately

after the words "scientific purpose" there shall be added the

words "by any person specially authorized in that behalf by the

Minister responsible for notarial affairs, with the advice of the

Notarial Council and the Archivist".

€0.18