Jersey Notarial help for personal matters
At Parslows Notaries, we provide expert notarial services to help individuals meet the legal requirements of foreign jurisdictions. Whether you’re buying property abroad, applying for a job overseas, or arranging travel for your children, our notaries ensure your documents are properly authenticated and legally recognised.
A Jersey Notary’s fundamental role is to provide proof of documents, transactions, and facts to the satisfaction of overseas authorities. This often involves meeting the requirements set by foreign lawyers, banks, or government agencies who have advised that your documents must be notarised or legalised.
Our Notarial Services
Witnessing your signature on documents for use outside Jersey, ensuring they are properly notarised and legally recognised abroad.
Notarising powers of attorney to appoint representatives overseas, often used for property transactions or legal matters.
Administering oaths and verifying affidavits and statutory declarations, including certifying academic qualifications for employment or immigration purposes.
Providing certified proof of identity for submission to foreign banks, government agencies, or other official bodies.
Notarising parental consent forms for children travelling internationally, helping ensure smooth passage through border controls.
What Is a Notary Public?
A notary public is a qualified lawyer who also has powers to certify and confirm facts and documents. A notary is subject to regulation by the Notaries Court of Faculties. All Notaries registered in Jersey can perform notarial acts in Jersey, but not elsewhere.
What Is a Notarial Certificate?
A notarial certificate provides a confirmation certification or authentication of some fact by a notary public. Frequent examples are to certify that copies are true copies of originals, both of which have been checked, or to witness the signature of a person or that a person has been duly appointed to a particular position and has authority to act.
What Is The Use Of a Notarial Act?
All notarial acts and instruments may be received in evidence without further proof as being duly authenticated per the requirements of the law of the receiving jurisdiction, unless the contrary is proved. Therefore, a notary will take care to verify the contents of the document and check any facts and information necessary to act reliably. Anyone receiving a notary’s document will assume that they have checked all the facts in it and taken the responsibility for them, unless they make it clear that this is not the case.
What Does Legalisation Mean?
This is a certificate to certify the notary public is, in fact, a notary public in Jersey. Documents requiring legalisation will be legalised by the Lieutenant Governor at the Passport Office in Jersey. Unless the recipient country has no legalisation requirement or is a signatory to the Hague Convention, the document may also need to be legalised by the London embassy (or consulate) of the recipient country.
Basic guide to legalisation requirements:
- Countries that have been colonies or dependencies of GB – no legalisation.
- Countries that have been colonies or dependencies of other states or otherwise – full legalisation unless Apostille accepted.
- Countries that are parties to the Hague Convention – usually only Apostille required.
- Countries that adopted the Civil Code under Napoleon – usually require full legalisation unless Apostille accepted.
These are basic principles, and there are exceptions, requirements may change from country to country at short notice.
What Does a Notary Cost?
The cost will depend on several factors. To obtain a fixed fee, please contact us with the following information:
- What type of document do you need notarising?
- How many different documents do you need notarising?
- How many copies of each notarised document do you require?
- Are the documents being notarised for an individual or business?
- Which country are the documents intended for?
We always offer a fixed fee for our notary services, but some cases may be a little more complex and therefore harder to estimate. In these cases, we will charge on the basis of how much time is spent on your matter.