Cap. 55 Art. 152Power to make regulations.

(1) The Minister responsible for notarial affairs may make regulations generally for carrying out the provisions of this

Act and in particular but without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing, may by such regulations:

(a) provide for the making of duplicate registers of any original notarial acts lost, destroyed or damaged, and for the substitution of any register lost, destroyed or damaged;

(b) prescribe the mode in which such duplicate registers or new registers shall be prepared and authenticated;

(c) prescribe that acts or registers deposited in the Archives be reproduced by microfilming and by any other form of digitisation and the mode in which such reproductions are to be made, stored and made accessible to the public;

(d) prescribe the manner in which reproductions made by microfilming and by any other form of digitisation and copies thereof may by authenticated;

(e) prescribe the fees and other charges to be levied and paid in respect of anything done under the foregoing provisions;

(f) provide guidelines on the manner in which any of the provisions of articles 94A and 94B and any of the provisions of the articles in Part VI of the Act is to be interpreted or applied, so however that such interpretation or application shall not be in conflict with the provisions of this Act or of any regulations made thereunder;

(g) provide for any matter incidental or supplementary to any of the foregoing provisions.

(2) Any duplicate register or new register made in accordance with regulations made under sub-article (1) or under the Duplicate Register of Notarial Acts (Emergency) Regulations, 1942, shall for all intents and purposes, replace the original acts or registers.

Transitory provisions included in Legal Notice 498 of 2011: The provisions of articles 91, 93, 94, 95 and 96 of the Act* shall be without prejudice to the provisions of articles 98 and 103 of the Act. Where articles 93 and 96 of the Act refer to provisions of the principal Act† which were amended by the Act, and such provisions as amended have not yet come into force, articles 93 and 96 of the Act shall start affecting such provisions as soon as the amendments to such provisions come into force and, for such time as such provisions shall not yet have come into force, the provisions of the principal Act as they stood before the coming into force of such amendments made by means of articles 93 and 96 shall continue to apply. Act XXIV. 2011.103, as amended by article 17 of Act XIX of 2012: