Notarial Acts

Notarial Acts

The following notarial acts can be performed at the Embassy for natural persons – citizens of the Republic of Lithuania only:

1. attestation of transactions, except for contracts on the conveyance, transfer for use or mortgage of immovable situated in the Republic of Lithuania, or contracts relating to other rights in rem or their encumbrances;
2. authentication of copies and extracts of documents;
3. authentication of signatures on documents;
4. attestation of the fact that a natural person is alive and at a particular place;
5. acceptation into custody personal wills;
6. attestation of the time of the submission of documents;
7. acceptation of sea protests;

Notarial acts for legal persons, citizens of foreign countries as well as stateless persons cannot be performed at the Embassy.

Notarial acts are also refused to be performed, if: 

1. in cases specified by the law, the notarial act has to be performed by a notary;
2. a transaction submitted for notarization does not comply with the requirements of legal acts or is drawn up with an intention known to be contrary to public interest;
3. a transaction is concluded through a representative whose powers to conclude the transaction have not been properly executed or who concludes the transaction exceeding the powers that have been granted to him;
4. persons have not submitted all the documents required to conclude a transaction;
5. an application for the performance of notarial acts is received from an incapable person, also a person who is in a state where he is incapable of understanding the meaning of his actions (under the influence of alcohol, narcotic, psychotropic or other psychoactive substances);
6. an application to certify a transaction has been received from a person with a limited capacity without the consent of his parents, adoptive parents or a custodian;
7. a person objects to pay a consular fee for the performance of a notarial act;
8. a natural person has no document attesting to his identity;
9. in other cases, where the performance of a notarial act contradicts legal acts or does not comply with the requirements thereof.