N-3 - Notaries Act

Section 56 Disposition versions

2023-10-24

56. Notarial acts in paper form must comply with the following formalities:

(1)  the acts must be written in good-quality ink, typewritten, or printed legibly and permanently;

(2)  the body of the act and the insertions or additions to insertions must not contain any overwriting, interlineation or added word; any overwritten, interlineated or added words, letters, figures or signs are deemed unwritten;

(3)  the crossing out of words, letters or figures must be done in such manner that the crossed-out words, letters and figures may be counted;

Not in force

(4)  insertions and additions to insertions must, under pain of nullity, be made in accordance with the procedure determined by regulation of the board of directors;

(5)  the acts must not contain any blanks, gaps or intervening spaces, other than the usual spaces, that are not crossed out; and

(6)  the number of insertions and additions to insertions, as well as the number of crossed-out words, letters and figures and the fact that they are null, must be mentioned at the end of the act, above the signatures.

2000, c. 44, s. 56; 2023, c. 23, s. 46.

2002-01-01

56. A notarial act en minute under the authority of which an act is executed must be sufficiently described in that act by the nature and date of the notarial act, the name of the notary who executed it, the minute number given to it and the designation of the notarial records in which it is kept and, where applicable, its registration number in the appropriate register for the publication of rights. No copy of a notarial act en minute is to be annexed to the act.

All other acts and documents under the authority of which an act is executed must be annexed and sufficiently described, acknowledged as true and signed in the presence of the notary by the party or parties who produce them and countersigned by the notary.

Any other document which the parties wish to annex to an act may be so annexed by complying with the formalities prescribed in the second paragraph.

2000, c. 44, s. 56.