Notarization Of Foreign Documents In India: A Trademark Law Perspective

I. STATUTES / TREATISE

THE NOTARIES ACT, 1952

Section 14 - deals with the reciprocal recognition of the acts done by foreign notaries. Under the notification dated August 18, 1960, this section recognizes the existing reciprocity of notirial acts between India and the United Kingdom.

Section 14 states, "If the Central Government is satisfied that by the law or practice of any country or place outside India, the notarial acts done by Notaries within India are recognized for all or any limited purposes of that country or place, the Central Government may, by notification in the official gazette, declare that the notarial acts lawfully done by notaries within such country or place shall be recognized within India for all purposes or, as the case may be, for such limited purposes as may be specified in the notification."¹