12. Section 41 of the principal enactment is hereby amended by the repeal of subsection (3) thereof, and the substitution therefor, of the following new subsection -
| " (3) Where a notary who is an attorney-at law of the Supreme Court has engaged for the purposes of his business an assistant who is also a notary and such assistant practises as a notary under such an engagement for the purposes of the business of the said notary who is an attorney-at-law, and the terms of such engagement have been notified by the parties to the Registrar-General, upon such assistant dying or leaving the service of his principal, the Registrar-General may (subject to the terms of the engagement) empower the said principal to retain the documents specified in paragraph (a) of subsection (1), and all such documents shall thereupon, for the purposes of this Ordinance, be deemed to be documents executed or acknowledged before such principal, or possessed by him in right of his office. But a list of the said documents shall be furnished to the Registrar-General by the principal who shall be responsible for their safe custody and for their delivery to the Registrar -General. ". |
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