The appointment with relative assigning of a post takes place by means of decree of the Director General of Civil Justice of the Ministry of Justice and is published on the Official Gazette.
The civil law notary, within the deadlines laid down by the law, must complete the prescribed formalities and take possession of his/her own post.
These formalities include among other things taking an oath in the Court of the administrative district in which the post assigned is located; a deposit is foreseen, which as time has gone on has however become economically insignificant: protection of users of the notarial services is today guaranteed by a collective insurance, stipulated by the Consiglio Nazionale del Notariato (National Board of Italian Civil Law Notaries), and which covers the official actions of all civil law notaries in Italy.
Once these formalities have been completed, the Notarial District Board (Consiglio Notarile Distrettuale) provides the civil law notary with the seal, and the notary must deposit his/her signature with the notarial district board, accompanied by the mark of the aforesaid seal.
In order to be entered in the register of civil law notaries practising in the district, the newly appointed civil law notary must arrange for the opening of his/her office in the place where his/her post is located. The notarial deeds, registers and indexes will be deposited and kept in his/her office.
On completion of all the aforesaid formalities, the civil law notary may be entered in the register of the notarial district board to which he/she belongs.
