Cap. 55 Art. 30How acts are to be written.

(1) The original of every notarial act shall be written, typewritten or printed in dark, clear, easily legible and indelible characters, without blanks or spaces unless such blanks or spaces are lined, without abbreviations, corrections, alterations or additions in the body of the act and without erasures.

Every original act shall have two margins, one on the right-hand side and the other on the left-hand side. All annotations and signatures as are required by law to be made in the margin shall be made in whichever of the said sides is the outer side.

(2) Where it is necessary to remove, vary or add any words before the act is signed by the appearers, the attestors, interpreter and witnesses, the notary shall make such removal, variation or addition by means of a numbered mark in the place where such removal, variation or addition is to be made and a note at the end of the act, but before the final signatures, numbered so as to correspond to the relative mark; and in any such case, the notary shall cancel the words which it is desired to remove or vary, in such manner as to leave the words cancelled still legible, and the note at the end of the act shall state the number of words so cancelled or, as the case may be, that other words are substituted for those cancelled, and containing immediately after, the words so substituted.

(3) In the case of a mere addition of words, the notary shall make a numbered mark in the place where the addition is to be made and a note at the end of the act, but before the final signatures, numbered so as to correspond to the relative mark, and containing "the expression "words added", "adde" or other similar expression and, immediately after, the words to be added.

(4) Any cancellation, addition or variation made otherwise than in the manner aforesaid shall be considered as if it had not been made.