2. Answer the following questions:

1. What competence does a notary have in Ukraine?

2. What main functions do notary offices have?

3. Are the documents certified by notaries confidential?

4. Who can perform notary actions?

5. What are the main tasks of notaries?

6. Who can become a notary in Ukraine?

7. What offences do notaries prevent?

8. What activity doesn’t a notary have the right to perform?

9. Does a notary have the right to represent a client in court?

10. What is a notary book for?

3. Are the following statements true or false?

1. A notary is a person who has the right to perform certain legal formalities, especially to draw up or certify contracts, deeds, and other documents for using in other jurisdictions.

2. The Law “On Protection of the Consumers Rights” is the main legislative source for notaries in Ukraine.

3. The person who has been convicted previously can be a notary.

4. A citizen of Ukraine who is getting higher legal education, can become a notary.

5. A notary needn’t keep a secret all the operations done at the notary office.

6. In Ukraine notary operations are carried outby public notaries or officials of executive bodies of local councils.

7. Notaries certify acts of conveyance of property and wills.

8. A notary fulfills notary actions provided for by the Law with the purpose of giving them constitutional force.

Vocabulary study

1. Mark (with a tick) the meaning in which the following words are used in the text.

1. body 1) the entire structure of an organism;

2) a group of persons associated by some common aim

and regarded as an entity;

2. official 1) a worker who holds or is invested with an office;

2) someone who administers the rules of a game or sport;

3. to certify 1) to notarize some documents;

2) to provide evidence for;

4. application 1) a verbal or written request for assistance or

employment or admission;

2) a program that gives a computer instructions;

5. property 1) an attribute, quality, or characteristic of something;

2) a thing or things belonging to someone;

possessions collectively;

6. legal 1) relating to or characteristic of the profession of law;

2) established by or founded upon law or accepted rules;

7. attest 1) to authenticate, to affirm to be true, to genuine, or

to correct, as in an official capacity;

2) to give testimony in a court of law;

8. seal 1) any of numerous marine mammals;

2) a stamp affixed to a document;

9. council 1) a meeting of people for consultation;

2) a body serving in an administrative capacity;

10. education 1) the profession of teaching;

2) the activities of educating or instructing;

activities that impart knowledge or skill.