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[Music] hi everyone welcome back to our series legalese translator my name is Heather and hi okay so in just in this video I'm gonna ask her to explain to us two awards that are commonly used litigation that's commissioning and notarizing I myself tend to get confused between the two so I'm gonna ask Heather to explain to us what the two different words mean Heather commissioning a document means taking an oath or declaration from a person who signs an affidavit or statutory declaration so usually we see it when a person has an affidavit and they swear it to be true the offense they sign the affidavit and then the Commissioner will witness the signature of the affiant every lawyer in Ontario is automatically a commissioner for taking affidavits the commissioners for taking affidavits act sets out the rules around commissioning documents so you said that every lawyer so automatically a question about people were lawyers can they be commissioners yeah they can apply to be a commissioner oftentimes law firms will have secretaries apply I for the commissioners stamp and that will enable them to Commission documents see okay so let's talk about notarizing what is that exactly so notarizing that's set out under the notaries Act notarizing a document it's verifying it to be a true copy of an original document so a notary has all the powers of a commissioner for taking affidavits they can verify that a signature is authentic they can mark copies of documents as a true genuine coffee and what they can do is as I mentioned earlier is regulated under the notaries Act every lawyer can apply to be a notary but unlike being a commissioner it isn't automatically bestowed I see and again can members of the general public apply to be notary a notary public yes they can apply and they might get the ability to be a notary I see okay so now at this time of recording were under experiencing the Cova 19 situation and so everybody has to be pretty much isolated I has there been any change in the rules that are relevant to this situation right now yes the rules have recently been changed a legislation has been amended both the notary's Act and the commissioners for taking affidavits act to allow the witnessing of signatures or certifying of documents to be done virtually and the there's some guidance that the Law Society and law Pro have provided online on how best to do so but the guidance is generally concerned with making sure that lawyers are not involved in fraud or not being duped okay so sure our viewers we're going to provide the links to these resources that heather has mentioned and thank you for Thank You Heather for a clean data and thanks everyone for watching if you're new to the channel don't forget to subscribe and I will see you at the next video thanks bye I [Music]