The Draft of the New Regulation on the State Notary Service of the RSFSR

Abstract

The legislation on the notary service is closely associated with civil legislation. The notarial agencies apply the provisions of civil law in performing, on behalf of the state, the service of monitoring the legality of transactions made under civil law. It is therefore natural that the important changes that have been made in the civil legislation must result in changes in the legislation on the notary service. It is generally recognized that these changes should take the form of the adoption of a new regulation on the state notary service of the RSFSR — a basic act to regulate the organization and procedures of the notarial agencies of the Russian Federation. The need to adopt a new regulation on the government notary service derives particularly from the changes introduced into the legislation of the RSFSR as a consequence of the elimination of the Ministry of Justice.