On December 8, 2023, as part of the study of the academic discipline "Advocacy and Notary of Ukraine", a meeting of students of the 2nd year of the specialty 262 "Law enforcement » with the private notary of Kyiv Svitlana Avramets.
During the binary lecture on the topic "General rules for performing notarial acts", Ms. Svitlana spoke about the organization of the work of a notary, noting: "The notary plays a significant role as a body of undisputed civil jurisdiction and preventive justice. The professional activity of a notary provides preventive legal protection and prevents future violations of the rights and interests of legal subjects and the occurrence of disputes in courts."
The notary told the future law enforcement officers about certain features of notarial acts under martial law, noting that the deadline set by the law for entering information by a notary into the unified and state registers operating in the system of the Ministry of Justice is extended for the period of their improper use, confirmed by the state enterprise "National Information Systems" functioning.
"It is impossible to talk about a single procedure for performing notarial acts based only on the sequence of their performance, without defining the single grounds for refusing to perform a notarial act, at what stage it is possible, and how it should be done. All this is decided by the notary himself. The content of the notarial proceedings in general, i.e. the general procedure, is formed by the basic rules of execution of notarial acts, which apply to the same extent regardless of which specific notarial act is performed," said Svitlana Avramets.
Answering the question of the students of education "Is there a difference between a public and a private notary?", it is stated that today there is practically no difference between public and private notaries, only that public notaries work in public notary offices, and private notaries have their own office where they receive people. Documents are equally valid both at public and private notaries.
The holding of this meeting gave the students the opportunity to gain practical knowledge about the general rules for performing notarial acts.