Clause 12
Legal Services Bill [Lords]
2:30 pm
Bridget Prentice (Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Ministry of Justice; Lewisham East, Labour)
I am going to make a kind of intervention on the hon. Gentleman, but he will not like it very much, because there is in fact no statutory definition of notarial activities. The requirement is not one that derives from English law, but from foreign jurisdictions—not from England and Wales or Scotland, but mostly from Latin countries such as Spain or Italy. They are the jurisdictions in which notarial activities are needed.
To make things even more exciting, I shall give the hon. Gentleman an example of those activities. They include matters such as the certification of a ship’s manifest. It is therefore not surprising that my friend Mrs. McGlumshie does not call on a notary very often.