Commission to be enrolled

(1) Before practising as a notary public or doing any notarial act, every person already appointed or hereafter to be 5 appointed a notary public shall cause his commission, licence or faculty to be enrolled in the office of the Registrar General. (2) The Registrar General is hereby required to enrol such commission, licence or faculty upon the payment of a fee of three dollars. (3) The notary public shall before practising as aforesaid make and subscribe in a book to be kept in the office of the Registrar General the oath set out in the First Schedule, or when the circumstances allow thereof, an affirmation or declaration to the like effect, which the Chief Justice or any judge of the Supreme Court or any Commissioner appointed to take affidavits to be used in the Supreme Court is hereby authorised to administer or receive. (4) The Registrar General shall keep an alphabetical list of all persons so appointed and sworn as notaries public, which shall be called and be the Roll of Notaries Public.