Compare Notarization with Authentication

– The accuracy and legitimacy of contracts and other civil transactions by written

– the accuracy, legitimacy and conformity with social ethics of the translation of a paper or document from Vietnamese to a foreign language or from a foreign language to Vietnamese.

– Authentication copies of originals as true: certified copies of the originals as true based on the originals.

– Authentication of signatures: authenticate signatures on papers, documents as signatures of the person concerned.

– Authentication of contracts: means competent agencies shall authenticate time and venue where the contracts are executed; civil capacity, willingness, signatures or append fingerprints of contracting parties.

+ Notary bureaus ( established under decisions of provincial-level People’s Committees,  public non-business units attached to provincial-level Justice Departments);

+ Notary offices (established by 02 or more notary general partners according to the type of organization of the partnership).

– Diplomatic missions, consulate representative agencies of Vietnam in foreign countries*

– People’s Committees of communes, wards and townships;

– Diplomatic missions, consulate representative agencies and other agencies authorized to act as consuls of Vietnam in foreign countries

– Notarial practice organizations.

– Notarized contract or transaction is binding on related parties; in case an obliged party fails to perform its/his/her obligations, the other party may request a court to settle the case in accordance with law, unless otherwise agreed upon by related parties

– Notarized contracts and transactions may be used as evidence; details and circumstances of notarized contracts or transactions are not required to be proven, unless such contracts or transactions are declared to be invalid by courts.

–  Notarized translations are valid for use as their translated papers or documents.

– Authenticated contract has legal value in serving as evidence of the time and venue where the contract is executed; civil capacity, willingness, signatures or append fingerprints of contracting parties.

– Copies certified as true from originals under this Decree have legal value when being used as substitutes for originals in transactions except otherwise prescribed by the law.

– Authenticated signatures under this Decree have legal value in determining the signer and his/her liabilities for the paper, the document signed.