I am confident that the public notary system will successfully operate in the Republic of Serbia from 1 September, as is the case in Montenegro, Macedonia, Republika Srpska, and the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Justice Minister Nikola Selaković said during the visit of the delegation of the Ministry of Justice to a notary office in Podgorica.
Selaković pointed out that the Ministry of Justice would continue to invest maximum efforts to create the conditions for additional training of candidates who had passed the public notary exam, and to appoint the best candidates for the first 100 notaries public, and that by 1 September all the necessary conditions for a successful start-up of the public notary profession in Serbia would be met.
“The Ministry of Justice will provide assistance to people in small towns where municipal courts or judicial units once operated and motivate them to take the exam by offering them to use the premises where the court or court unit was once located, as a notary office, free of charge and for a period of 4 or 5 years”, said Selaković, pointing out that the interest of candidates for the public notary profession in these small towns was at a low level.
Minister Selaković invited the practicing lawyers, especially those from the towns where a court or judicial unit had been abolished, people who had worked as lawyers in the economic sector, to apply to take the public notary exam.
“In the 21st century we live in a time when a man is no longer educated for one profession and calling from the beginning to the end of his professional life, therefore we must be willing to constantly improve and learn”, Minister Selaković concluded.