Notary FAQs

Types of Documents You May Need a Notary Public for:

• Foreign Property or Commercial Transactions

• Certifying and Authenticating documents (e.g., educational, professional and vocational qualifications or police certificates)

• Affidavits for use in foreign courts

• Making Declarations and Affirmations

• Company documents including international contracts

• Power of Attorney

• Adoption papers

• Consents to Travel

• Certificates of identity

• Arranging to Apostille documents with the Department of Foreign Affairs.

What Do I Need To Bring?

The same anti-terrorism and anti-money laundering formalities as apply on opening a new bank account apply to notarisation. This means that you wound need to provide your current valid ID in a form of the Passport, your bank statement or utility bill and, in some cases, source of funds.

PASSPORT

Your identity must be proven before we can notarise your documents. This means producing your original passport. In some limited  compelling cases we can accept lesser proof .

If other identifying detail is given in the document to be notarised (such as Identity Card number or tax number), then whatever document proves that other detail must also be produced.

BANK STATEMENT OR UTILITY BILL

You must prove your current residential address by producing a recent bank statement or utility bill (not a mobile phone bill) with your name and address dated within the previous three months.

SOURCE OF FUNDS

For buying or selling property, managing money or other assets, opening or managing accounts, funding companies, trusts etc. you will need to produce documentation proving the source of funds to the Notary.