There are currently no known outstanding effects for the Public Notaries Act 1843, Section 8.
[F1(1)]F1The master of the faculties for the time being, or his surrogate, shall and he is hereby authorized and empowered to issue commissions to take any oaths, affidavits, affirmations, or declarations required by law to be taken before the grant of any faculty, marriage licence, or other instrument issuing from the said office of faculties; and all oaths, affidavits, affirmations, or declarations taken before the commissioner so appointed, and the faculty, marriage licence, or other instrument granted in pursuance thereof, shall be as valid and effectual as if such oath, affidavit, affirmation, or declaration was taken before the said master or his surrogate, anything in any Act or law to the contrary thereof notwithstanding.
[F2(2)For the purposes of the Legal Services Act 2007, the issue of a commission under subsection (1) is to be treated as an authorisation to carry on the relevant activities by virtue of another enactment (see paragraph 6(2) of Schedule 3 to that Act).
(3)In subsection (2), “relevant activities” means the activities authorised by the commission.F2]
Textual Amendments
F1S. 8 renumbered as s. 8(1) (1.1.2010) by Legal Services Act 2007 (c. 29), ss. 208, 211, Sch. 21 para. 6(a) (with ss. 29, 192, 193); S.I. 2009/3250, art. 2(h) (with art. 9)
F2S. 8(2)(3) inserted (1.1.2010) by Legal Services Act 2007 (c. 29), ss. 208, 211, Sch. 21 para. 6(b) (with ss. 29, 192, 193); S.I. 2009/3250, art. 2(h) (with art. 9)
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