N-3 - Notaries Act

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6. The board of directors may, by regulation,
(1)  provide for professional training, determine the form the training is to take, provide the appropriate instruction and, for such purposes, establish a school of professional training;
(2)  establish, and set the rules governing the administration of, a notarial studies fund, made up of the gifts and legacies made for that purpose, any sums paid into it by the Order and the income from the general accounts held in trust by notaries, for the purposes of
(a)  promoting the quality of professional services, including the preservation of the acts in the notarial records preserved in the digital central notarial records, law reform, legal research, education and information, and the establishment and maintenance of law library services, and
(b)  financing measures to promote access to justice and the digitization and preservation of notarial records and, in accordance with paragraph 5 of section 8, the indemnity fund of the Order;
(3)  establish mandatory standards of professional practice, including special standards of practice for notaries practising outside Québec;
(4)  determine what constitutes a vacancy on the board of directors; and
(5)  determine the conditions that a notary must meet to be certified as regards the institution or review of a tutorship to a person of full age and as regards protection mandates.
Section 95.2 of the Professional Code (chapter C-26) applies to a regulation made under subparagraphs 2 and 4 of the first paragraph.
No regulation may be adopted by the board of directors under subparagraph 5 of the first paragraph unless the secretary of the Order has sent a draft of it to every member of the Order at least 30 days before its adoption by the board of directors. The regulation shall be submitted to the Government, which may approve it with or without amendment.
2000, c. 44, s. 6; 2008, c. 11, s. 200, s. 212; 2009, c. 35, s. 59; 2014, c. 13, s. 18; 2017, c. 11, s. 135; 2023, c. 23, s. 16.
6. The board of directors may, by regulation,
(1)  provide for professional training, determine the form the training is to take, provide the appropriate instruction and, for such purposes, establish a school of professional training;
(2)  establish a notarial studies fund, made up of the gifts and legacies made for that purpose, any sums paid into it by the Order and the income from the general accounts held in trust by notaries, to promote the quality of professional services, law reform, legal research, education and information and the establishment and maintenance of law library services, and to finance, in accordance with paragraph 5 of section 8, the indemnity fund of the Order, and establish rules governing the administration of the notarial studies fund;
(3)  establish mandatory standards of professional practice;
(4)  (subparagraph repealed);
(5)  determine what constitutes a vacancy on the board of directors.
Section 95.2 of the Professional Code (chapter C-26) applies to a regulation made under subparagraph 2, 4 or 5 of the first paragraph.
2000, c. 44, s. 6; 2008, c. 11, s. 200, s. 212; 2009, c. 35, s. 59; 2014, c. 13, s. 18; 2017, c. 11, s. 135.
6. The board of directors may, by regulation,
(1)  provide for professional training, determine the form the training is to take, provide the appropriate instruction and, for such purposes, establish a school of professional training;
(2)  establish a notarial studies fund, made up of the gifts and legacies made for that purpose, any sums paid into it by the Order and the income from the general accounts held in trust by notaries, to promote the quality of professional services, law reform, legal research, education and information and the establishment and maintenance of law library services, and to finance, in accordance with paragraph 5 of section 8, the indemnity fund of the Order, and establish rules governing the administration of the notarial studies fund;
(3)  establish mandatory standards of professional practice;
(4)  (subparagraph repealed);
(5)  determine what constitutes a vacancy on the board of directors, and establish rules governing the election or appointment of a substitute member to fill a vacancy.
Section 95.2 of the Professional Code (chapter C-26) applies to a regulation made under subparagraph 2, 4 or 5 of the first paragraph.
2000, c. 44, s. 6; 2008, c. 11, s. 200, s. 212; 2009, c. 35, s. 59; 2014, c. 13, s. 18.
6. The board of directors may, by regulation,
(1)  provide for professional training, determine the form the training is to take, provide the appropriate instruction and, for such purposes, establish a school of professional training;
(2)  establish a notarial studies fund, made up of the gifts and legacies made for that purpose, any sums paid into it by the Order and the income from the general accounts held in trust by notaries, to promote the quality of professional services, law reform, legal research, education and information and the establishment and maintenance of law library services, and to finance, in accordance with paragraph 5 of section 8, the indemnity fund of the Order, and establish rules governing the administration of the notarial studies fund;
(3)  establish mandatory standards of professional practice;
(4)  establish a committee to which the powers conferred on the executive committee under section 12 may be delegated by the executive committee, determine the manner in which such powers are to be exercised as well as the number of committee members and the membership requirements, and the manner in which the committee is to operate;
(5)  determine what constitutes a vacancy on the board of directors, and establish rules governing the election or appointment of a substitute member to fill a vacancy.
Section 95.2 of the Professional Code (chapter C-26) applies to a regulation made under subparagraph 2, 4 or 5 of the first paragraph.
2000, c. 44, s. 6; 2008, c. 11, s. 200, s. 212; 2009, c. 35, s. 59.
6. The board of directors may, by regulation,
(1)  provide for professional training, determine the form the training is to take, provide the appropriate instruction and, for such purposes, establish a school of professional training;
(2)  establish a notarial studies fund, made up of the gifts and legacies made for that purpose, any sums paid into it by the Order and the income from the general accounts held in trust by notaries, to promote the quality of professional services, law reform, legal research, education and information and the establishment and maintenance of law library services, and to finance, in accordance with paragraph 5 of section 8, the indemnity fund of the Order, and establish rules governing the administration of the notarial studies fund;
(3)  establish mandatory standards of professional practice;
(4)  establish a committee to which the power to decide applications under section 12 may be delegated by the executive committee, determine the manner in which such power is to be exercised as well as the number of committee members and the membership requirements, and the manner in which the committee is to operate;
(5)  determine what constitutes a vacancy on the board of directors, and establish rules governing the election or appointment of a substitute member to fill a vacancy.
Section 95.2 of the Professional Code (chapter C-26) applies to a regulation made under subparagraph 2, 4 or 5 of the first paragraph.
2000, c. 44, s. 6; 2008, c. 11, s. 200, s. 212.
6. The Bureau may, by regulation,
(1)  provide for professional training, determine the form the training is to take, provide the appropriate instruction and, for such purposes, establish a school of professional training;
(2)  establish a notarial studies fund, made up of the gifts and legacies made for that purpose, any sums paid into it by the Order and the income from the general accounts held in trust by notaries, to promote the quality of professional services, law reform, legal research, education and information and the establishment and maintenance of law library services, and to finance, in accordance with paragraph 5 of section 8, the indemnity fund of the Order, and establish rules governing the administration of the notarial studies fund;
(3)  establish mandatory standards of professional practice;
(4)  establish a committee to which the power to decide applications under section 12 may be delegated by resolution by the Administrative Committee, determine the manner in which such power is to be exercised as well as the number of committee members and the membership requirements, and the manner in which the committee is to operate;
(5)  determine what constitutes a vacancy on the Bureau, and establish rules governing the election or appointment of a substitute member to fill a vacancy.
Section 95.1 of the Professional Code (chapter C-26) applies to a regulation made under subparagraph 2, 4 or 5 of the first paragraph.
2000, c. 44, s. 6.