Section 6: Relationship by blood or marriage
consolidated text (as at 2017, amended since). juris shows the text as it was consolidated; it does not confirm that this is the law in force today.
6. Relationship by blood or marriage
(1) No notary shall draw up a notarial deed to which any person who is
related to him is a party or in which any such person is a beneficiary.
(2) No notary shall act in a notarial deed together with another notary
who is related to him.
(3) No person shall be a witness to a notarial deed where he is related to, or
in the employment of, the notary who draws up the deed or a party to the deed.
(4) Where a notarial deed is drawn up in contravention of this section, it
shall only have the effect of a document under private signature.
(5) For the purpose of this section, a person is related to another person
where he is, by blood or marriage, a spouse, an ascendant, a descendant, a
brother or a sister or an in-law to the same degree.
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Questions this section answers
- Can a notary draw up a deed for his own relative?
- Can two related notaries act together on the same deed?
- What happens to a deed made in breach of the family-relation rule?