Cap. 55 Art. 138Deprivation of office.

A notary shall be liable to be deprived of his office if -

(a) he continues to practise during his suspension or temporary incapacitation, saving the provisions of article 131(3); or

(b) he publishes a notarial act while he is partially incapacitated; or

(c) he has wilfully failed to preserve the acts received by him or the registers thereof or any other acts or the registers whereof he is the keeper; saving any heavier punishment prescribed in the Criminal Code; or

(d) is, for a second time, a recidivist in any of the contraventions mentioned in 132(b).