Notary Public & Halifax Bank

merlotsmum

I am getting married in August 2019 in the UK.

I was born & raised in England for over 30 years, then moved to Oz for 8 years in my 30’s and returned back to UK over 15 years ago, fully settled here.

I am a British & Australian Citizen and with that have some pensions, etc over on Australia. To change my name I have been advised I need to send the various organisations a certified copy of my marriage certificate, witnessed and signed by a Notary Public along with a copy of my British passport (also to be certified).

I have been told that your bank could do this for you at a reduced cost (or free), has anyone had any experience of this? I am with the Halifax.

My feeling is that I will need to go to a Notary Public but wanted to ask. I am trying to keep costs down

Thanks in advance

patta

You can also try the Post Office. With Halifax, I believe it's at the branches' discretion, so phone them and ask?

https://www.postoffice.co.uk/document-certification-service

merlotsmum

patta wrote: »

You can also try the Post Office. With Halifax, I believe it's at the branches' discretion, so phone them and ask?

https://www.postoffice.co.uk/document-certification-service

Many thanks

agrinnall

I'm not convinced that a PO clerk will have the level of authority required to acceptably certify your documents, I suspect that you are right and that you will need to pay a Notary Public to do it.


https://www.thenotariessociety.org.uk/

Uxb1

A Public Notary is an unusual request
They are usually used in dealing with corporate affairs involving witnessed documents where umpteen millions are involved.
They cost a lot.
Usually for private individuals' business something like a Solicitor would be adequate and much cheaper.
However if the requirement as to who can witness is very specific that it needs a Public Notary to witness then sadly that is what you need to use and nothing else will be acceptable. So you need to recheck exactly what they say of who can witness the document.

merlotsmum

Thank you Uxb1 and agrinnall, yes it seems it is pretty much a Notary Public. I think I will get them to do a job lot of documents if paying them


This is from the Change of Name criteria from one of the Pension firms in Australia -


WHO CAN CERTIFY DOCUMENTS OUTSIDE OF AUSTRALIA
• an authorised staff member of an Australian Embassy, High Commission or Consulate
• an authorised employee of the Australian Trade Commission who is in a country or place outside Australia
• an authorised employee of the Commonwealth of Australia who is in a country or place outside Australia
• a Member of the Australian Defence Force who is an officer or a noncommissioned officer with 5 or more years of continuous service
• a Notary Public from a country ranked 129 or below in the latest Transparency International Corruptions Perception Index: http://www.transparency.org

merlotsmum

patta wrote: »

You are trying to certify British documents in the UK, not sure how Australia rules are relevant here? I believe your copy and paste refers to documents issued in Australia, not in the UK.

Yes, I am getting married in the UK and will have a marriage cert from here.


I have a pension in Australia, they sent me a 2 page document on how I change my name, that is what I cut & pasted into my last post. They need a Notary Public signed copy of my UK marriage cert

patta

You are trying to certify British documents in the UK, not sure how Australia rules are relevant here? I believe your copy and paste refers to documents issued in Australia, not in the UK.

You might also need an apostille though, if you plan to use the certified copies in Australia.

https://www.gov.uk/get-document-legalised

d123

merlotsmum wrote: »

I am getting married in August 2019 in the UK.

I was born & raised in England for over 30 years, then moved to Oz for 8 years in my 30’s and returned back to UK over 15 years ago, fully settled here.

I am a British & Australian Citizen and with that have some pensions, etc over on Australia. To change my name I have been advised I need to send the various organisations a certified copy of my marriage certificate, witnessed and signed by a Notary Public along with a copy of my British passport (also to be certified).

I have been told that your bank could do this for you at a reduced cost (or free), has anyone had any experience of this? I am with the Halifax.

My feeling is that I will need to go to a Notary Public but wanted to ask. I am trying to keep costs down

Thanks in advance

My in-laws have a foreign pension and Halifax staff have always stamped and signed the various documents required without any problems.

merlotsmum

patta wrote: »

You are trying to certify British documents in the UK, not sure how Australia rules are relevant here? I believe your copy and paste refers to documents issued in Australia, not in the UK.

You might also need an apostille though, if you plan to use the certified copies in Australia.

https://www.gov.uk/get-document-legalised

Thank you for your kind responses, to clarify I have one pension in Australia in my current name.

When I get married later this year in the UK I need to change to my married name.

I contacted the pension company in Australia who said I need to send them certified copy of my current British Passport and my Marriage Certificate signed by a Notary Public from the UK, that is all they need to change my name over.

The cut and paste is from their leaflet in relation of what I need to do to change my name if I don't reside in Australia.

I have emailed 2 Notary Public companies locally with all the information I have been given by the pension company for them to give me advice & quote.

Thank you again for taking time to support me with this

merlotsmum

d123 wrote: »

My in-laws have a foreign pension and Halifax staff have always stamped and signed the various documents required without any problems.

Thank you for your guidance, much appreciated