QUALIFICATIONS FOR NOTARIAL APPOINTMENT REGULATIONS

QUALIFICATIONS FOR NOTARIAL APPOINTMENT

SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION 55.10

QUALIFICATIONS FOR NOTARIAL

APPOINTMENT REGULATIONS

1st January, 2018

LEGAL NOTICE 156 of 2018.

The title of these regulations is the Qualifications for

Notarial Appointment Regulations.

In these regulations, unless the context otherwise

requires

"the Act" means the Notarial Profession and Notarial Archives

Act;

"trainee" means any person who has obtained the academic

degree mentioned in article 6(c) of the Act, and who intends to sit for

the qualification examination mentioned in the said article.

(1)

For the purposes of article 6 (b) of the Act, any

person who is found guilty of a crime under Title III Subtitle III, Title

V, Title VI, Title VIII Sub-title IX, article 257 and Title IX Subtitles I

and III of the Criminal Code, shall not be considered to be of good

conduct and any person who has lost at any time a warrant to practise

as a notary, advocate or legal procurator, shall not be considered to be

of good character.

(2) Every prospective candidate shall be bound to present a

good conduct certificate from the Malta Police to the Examination

Board, proving that he has not been convicted of any crime

mentioned in this regulation.

For the purposes of article 6(d) of the Act, the trainee

shall be bound to register the commencement of his notarial practice

by logging said start of practice on the Notarial Council’s website, or

register the start of such practice under such procedures as may be

established for this purpose by the Notarial Council from time to

time, and shall provide all necessary details which may be requested

by the said Notarial Council in this regard. The Council shall be

bound to issue an acknowledgement regarding the conclusion of

notarial practice, unless the said practice would have been terminated

or suspended at any time. This sub-regulation shall only have effect

with regards to trainees sitting for their qualifying examination in the

year 2020 and thereafter.

For the purposes of article 6(e) of the Act the trainee

shall have attained a pass in Maltese language at Intermediate level

standard at a session of the Matriculation Examination offered by the

MATSEC Board of the University of Malta, and shall provide to the

Board a certificate to this effect.