THE CERTIFICATION STATEMENT MUST BE WRITTEN RIGHT UNDER THE CERTIFICATED SIGNATURE
The Ministry of Justice promulgates the Circular No. 01/2020/TT-BTP on detailing and guiding the implementation of a number of Articles of the Decree No. 23/2015/ND-CP dated February 16, 2015 of the Government on grant of duplicates from master registers, certification of copies from originals, certification of signatures and certification of contracts and transactions on March 03, 2020.
To be specific, this Circular detailing and guiding the implementation of granting of duplicates from master registers; certification of signatures; approval the list of translators; certification of contracts and transactions and certification competence in island districts.
Accordingly, the certification statement must be written right under the signature which is certificated or the following page on the paper and document that bear the certificated signature. In case the certification statement is written in the following page, seal shall be appended on every two adjoining pages of the papers and the documents have certificated signature and the page which bear the certification statement.
In case papers and documents are signed by more than one person, the signatures of all persons who have signed the papers or documents must be certificated.
A new remarkable content is that the Division of Justice shall revise the list of translators annually. In case the translator is no longer qualified or no longer collaborate in translation with the Division of Justice from more than 12 months without any reasonable explanation, the Division of Justice shall issue a written suggestion to remove such person from the list of translation collaborators.
This Decree takes effect on April 20, 2020.
