What is a notary public in Hong Kong

Notary is qualified senior lawyers, practicing for at least seven years. Before 1997, notaries are appointed by the Archbishop of Canterbury, England. However, in Hong Kong it has its own notary examination and appointment system. Since 1993, all appointed notaries in Hong Kong through the exam and get qualifications. Notaries in the performance of notarial services, is subject to "the Legal Practitioners Ordinance" specific provisions of Chapter 159 ﹞ ﹝ notary public of the regulation. When a company needs to countries other than the registered business or other economic activity, companies often need to provide notarized registration files, notary can be a very complex process. 1. between countries of the Hague Convention, only be confirmed by a Notary Public (Notary Public) for relevant documents "notary" (Notarization), then cross the country's Ministry of Foreign Affairs which is that the country qualified notary public notary, this program called "certification" (Apostille) 2. As long as there is one non-Hague Convention country, we need to do embassy certification. This program is the aforementioned "notary", "certification" good document registered post where the recipient embassy or consulate of the country where the official Foreign Ministry registered "certification" (Apostille) signature file a "confirmation", which a three chain validation process called "embassy certification."