Duties of Notary in Turkish Law

Duties of Notary in Turkish Law

These are the duties of Notary due to 1512 No. Notary Act:

1. Arrange all kinds of legal procedures which are not given legally to any other office, instance or person (are not entitled by law).
2. arrange all kinds of legal procedures of undetermined instances that are stipulated formally by the laws  and as stipulated by the said law.
3. Make real property sale promise agreement.
4. Confirm signature, seal or any sign or date above the paper that is written outside as stipulated by this law.
5. Give a copy of the original or copy or the document that is brought to the notary public office as stipulated by this law.
6. Translate the documents from one language to another or from one writing to another.
7. Make a formal complaint against someone, send notification and send notarized minutes.
8. Enter the necessary registered legal procedures in an official register.
9. Execute other duties as stipulated by this law and by the other laws.

And these two are (also) can be issued by notery:

1. Certificate of inheritance and also,
2. 2. Inviting cessionary spouse to communal residence.

Determination

Notary publics fix situation or form and value of a place or a thing and identity and expression of concerned parties and upon invitation to attend lottery and election and meetings of private institutions to certify the situation.

Safe Keeping

Notary publics guard the things entrusted to him for keeping or for giving to another person in accordance with the below mentioned decision. Also one copy of the minutes is given to the person that trust the thing and the person that the trust belongs to is notified by the other copy.

Entrust the trust

Trusts are kept by the notary public accordingly.

Upon the request of the related person, the trust shall be put in a safe and be kept in a national bank after it is sealed by the notary public in the presence of the related person and the trust shall be kept in an iron case or in a secure box unless a bank is available.

Book Approval

After the approval of the said book in the above-mentioned section, the notary public notifies instances as prescribed by the above-mentioned laws; of the sort, year, and page number of the approved book one by one or in a list with a registered letter.

Therefore, notary public charges the related person for letter fee as shown in the fee tariff and post expenses in cases where law obligates to notify one by one.

Testament and duties regarding savings related to the death

Notary publics keep open and secret testaments and they keep minutes regarding the above-mentioned testaments. They notify the situation in writing to the public registration office upon the death of persons trusted savings other than death, prepared by the notary publics, or testaments kept this way.

In case Public registration office certifies the death with a formal document or inform on death, notary publics entrust the approved copies of the testaments kept in their notary public office and covenant for title related to the death prepared by them to be sent to the office of the director of the public prosecutors.

According to the first section the person will pay the writing fee as shown in the writing tariffs for the writing addressing the Public Registration Office and the post charge.

Notification Procedures

Any kind of document that will be used as notification will be notified to the relevant person according to the provisions of the Notification Law.  Notification minutes will be attached to the copy in the notary public office.