N-2 - Notarial Act

Section 54 Disposition versions

1999-10-22

54. (1)  The right to furnish copies of or extracts from a notarial deed and of its annexes belongs only to the notary who executed the deed, to the legal custodian of the notary’s records, or to the notary empowered by a special power of attorney as provided in section 57.

(2)  No notary or person referred to in subsection 1 shall give communication or copies of any will or codicil except to the testator himself or to a person vested with his authorization executed either en brevet or before two witnesses, or before having obtained proof of the testator’s death.

(3)  Such death may be established by a certificate of death, a statutory declaration or such other evidence as is satisfactory to the custodian of the will or codicil.

1968, c. 70, s. 54; 1999, c. 40, s. 197.

1977-12-31

54. (1)  The right to furnish copies of or extracts from a notarial deed and of its annexes belongs only to the notary who executed the deed, to his assignee, to the prothonotary or provisional guardian who is the legal custodian of the records of the notary who executed the deed, or to the notary empowered by a special power of attorney as provided in section 57.

(2)  No notary, provisional guardian, mandatary or prothonotary who is a custodian of records shall give communication or copies of any will or codicil except to the testator himself or to a person vested with his authorization executed either en brevet or before two witnesses, or before having obtained proof of the testator’s death.

(3)  Such death may be established by a burial certificate, a statutory declaration or such other evidence as is satisfactory to the custodian of the will or codicil.

1968, c. 70, s. 54.