Cap. 55 Art. 11Notary bound to give his services.

(1) The notary may refuse his services or terminate any engagement for his services at his discretion without justification, and will not be required to consider the effect or consequence of such refusal.

(2) Without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing sub-article, the notary shall not be bound to give his services or to finalise any engagement, if subsequent to the acceptance of the engagement:

(a) the parties fail to deposit with him the amount of duties, taxes, fees and expenses in respect of any service or deed, either at the moment of publication of the deed or on the execution of the service requested; or

(b) his services are required on a public holiday or between 9.00 p.m. of one day and 8.00 a.m. of the following day.

(3) The provisions of sub-article (1) and (2), shall not apply in the case of a will and the provision of paragraph (b) of sub-article (2) shall not apply in the case of a sea protest.