The legislature’s 1st Standing Committee President Kwan Tsui Hang said yesterday her committee had finished reviewing a government-initiated bill regulating the city’s private notaries, adding that the government would once more revise the bill and return it to the committee for further analysis.
Kwan made the remarks after a meeting of her committee about the bill with government officials including Legal Affairs Bureau (DSAJ) Director Liu Dexue in the legislative chamber.
The legislature last month passed the outline of the bill, the main aim of which is to improve the quality of private notaries and raise their number. The bill proposes a set of requirements for lawyers to become private notaries such as that lawyers will only be able to enrol in training courses to become private notaries after having worked in their profession in the city for at least five consecutive years.
Legislative Assembly (AL) 1st Standing Committee President Kwan Tsui Hang poses for press photos before briefing the media about her committee’s meeting about the government-drafted bill regulating private notaries yesterday. Photo: MPDG
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