• Is Notary gazetted officer?

Hello!

I want sign on my certificates which requries gazetted officer sign but many of my friends told notary is also gazetted officer because he has green pen with stamp.

I request to answer my question.


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15 Answers

Notary is also considered as a Gazetted Officer. He is authorised to sign on copy of certificates.

Shashidhar S. Sastry
Advocate, Bangalore
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High Court of Kerala in the case of Abdul Kadir v. Union of India, held that The term Gazetted officer refers to an officer of the State or Central Government with a definite status, A notary is a professional and not an officer of the Government.”


Though the names of notaries need to be published in the official gazette of the government as per the provisions of Section 6 of the Notaries Act, 1952, it does not make him or her a gazetted officer.

Ajay Sethi
Advocate, Mumbai
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A notary is NOT a gazetted officer.

Rahul Mishra
Advocate, Lucknow
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If a person's name is published in the Gazette of India or any state government Gazette,  he/she is called Gazette.

A Notary public is also a gazetted officer. 

T Kalaiselvan
Advocate, Vellore
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No notary is not a gazetted officer but has power to verify and attest documents

Prashant Nayak
Advocate, Mumbai
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Aa notary public is not a gazetted officer of the government. He is an advocate appointed as notary.  

Swaminathan Neelakantan
Advocate, Coimbatore
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Notary is not a gazetted officer 

Ajay Sethi
Advocate, Mumbai
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A notary is by attesting a document gives undertaking as to the  person  who signed the  document as a matter of fact. An attested by gazetted office is verification of the  document/certificate is true copy of document/certificate.  Notary has no power to attested a document/certificate as true copy of original. You need to take attestation from gazette office, notary cannot attest a document/certificate.

Ravi Shinde
Advocate, Hyderabad
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Class A and B

Prashant Nayak
Advocate, Mumbai
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A notary is a lawyer who has been appointed to notarise documents. He is not a gazetted officer.

Rahul Mishra
Advocate, Lucknow
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He is a gazetted officer and his attestation is legally valid.

It matters nothing whether he belongs to class A category or B because he is not a salaried employee under the central or any state government.

T Kalaiselvan
Advocate, Vellore
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Dear client,  A notary public is also a gazetted officer..

Anik Miu
Advocate, Bangalore
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Please be guided by my earlier response.

Swaminathan Neelakantan
Advocate, Coimbatore
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Hi, Notary is not a Gazatted officer.

Pradeep Bharathipura
Advocate, Bangalore
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- As per Kerala High Court judgment in the matter of Abdul Qadir Versus Union of India , “The term Gazetted officer refers to an officer of the State or Central Government with a definite status, A notary is a professional and not an officer of the Government.”

- The Court further observed that, “It is not the publication of a person’s name in the official gazette that makes him a gazetted officer, but his occupying a definite official status in the hierarchy of government service”

- Since the Notary not having official status in the hierarchy of government service , hence he is not a Gazetted officer.

Mohammed Shahzad
Advocate, Delhi
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