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Legalisation

My Charges

The following fees apply to services provided to commercial clients. Charges for private client work (non-commercial) are available on request.

1. Notarial services: £75 for the first document or notarial act and £50 for each subsequent one completed at the same time. Additional costs maybe incurred if there is a material amount of work over and above the normal notarial service, a charge is made for “input into transaction”. This is based on £250 + vat per hour.

2. Obtaining Apostilles: 5 working days: handling charge of £15 per document plus Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) charges* Next working day: handling charge of £100 for the first document and £15 for each subsequent document completed at the same time plus FCO charges*

Additional Costs
3. Preparation of documentation: £125 per document (for example the production of a full notarial certificate.)
4. Input into an existing document: it is pre-prepared or held on the notary system, there is a charge of £100. (For example, this applies to the preparation of a full Notarial Certificate.)
5. Out of office visits/out of office hours
6. Sourcing of documents
7. Postal and Courier services
8. Obtaining Consular Stamps
9. Scanning documents before dispatch: £10 per document.
10. Disbursements
11. Services over and above the ‘notarial’: £250 + vat per hour.

* FCO charges as at 1st January 2012: note the FCO does not charge VAT
5 working days: £30 per document
Next working day: £75 per document

Legalisation

You may have been asked to make sure that your document is ‘legalised’. Legalisation means that the Foreign and Commonwealth Office puts a certificate on the document confirming the Notary's credentials. The Foreign Office certificate is known as an Apostille and is attached under the terms of the Hague Convention. Often ertified copies of educational or professional qualifications require to be legalised; certainly most Powers of Attorney and international trade documents do. For some countries, notably the UAE, Foreign Office legalisation is not enough and they require a stamp from their own embassy or consulate before the document is legally acceptable abroad. Notary Nigel Pugh will advise you what legalisation your document needs, (if any).

Why is legalisation necessary?
Legalisation is a double check to make sure that the notary signature is genuine.

NotaryPublicSouthampton offer 5-day or next-working day Legalisation / Apostille service. If consular legalisation is needed then the time taken will be longer - please enquire Notary-Public-Southampton