The Office of the Notary to Government fulfils notarial functions for the Government of Malta. Our mission is to assist in the publication and signing of contracts and agreements to which the Government is a party, in accordance with the Notarial Profession and Notarial Archives Act. The Office of the Notary to Government also incorporates within it the Principal Notarial Archive, which gathers and preserves the original contracts published by notaries whilst ensuring that such contracts are also accessible to the public in digital format in order to provide a service of excellence.
Services
The Office of the Notary to Government and Notarial Archives provides
various services such as:
Drafting
and publishing of notarial deeds to which the Government or any corporate body
established by law is a party;
Receiving
bound volumes of original notarial deeds published by notaries in Malta following
their review in terms of Chapter 55 of the Laws of Malta;
Serving as a depository of such volumes containing notarial deeds for their safekeeping and preservation;
Indexing,
marking, storing and conserving such volumes of notarial deeds and taking all
security measures to prevent loss by fire, theft or other circumstances, of these
notarial records conserved in the Notarial Archives;
Providing
service to members of the public wishing to inspect any deed published by
notaries practising in Malta from the fifteenth century to date and to order a
copy thereof;
Serving
as a useful source of reference material to researchers and scholars;
Reviewing
of public wills published by notaries in Malta and Gozo;
Preparation
and organisation of the notarial warrant examination held annually and
subsequent procedures leading to the award of notarial warrants;
Serving
as Keepers of other notaries who are deceased or who have renounced their
warrant or have been disbarred from practising the notarial profession;
To
effect in a professional manner the restoration of old notarial volumes as well
as the repair or rebinding of other volumes as necessary from time to time;
To
cater for proper modern storage facilities particularly by means of
digitisation of the notarial records housed in the Archives;
Active
participation to promote the Notarial Archives both at St. Christopher Street,
Valletta, and at M.A. Vassalli Street, Valletta. In this regard this Office has managed to obtain EU funding for two projects, one relating to the rehabilitation of a new building acquired in 2015 adjacent to the Notarial Archives in St. Christopher Street, and the other for the digitisation of notarial deeds at the main Archives; both projects are currently under way;
Promoting
new policies for the simplification of bureaucracy with regard to notarial
affairs such as the revocation of mandates and incapacitation or interdiction.