To empower the Central and State Governments to appoint notaries, not only for the limited purposes of the Negotiable Instruments Act, for all recognised notarial purposes, and to regulate the profession of such notaries, Notaries Act, 1952 was enacted by the Parliament. Section 8 of the said Act specifies the function of the notaries which include to verify, authenicate, certify, verify any instrument.The power of appointment of notaries in the UT of J&K vests in the department of Law,Justice and Parliamentary Affairs and the Law department is dealing with all affairs of notaries appointed in the UT of J&K .
