Re: Request for Extension of Existing Notarial Commissions

June 22, 2021

EN BANC

B.M. No. 3795

RE: REQUEST FOR EXTENSION OF EXISTING NOTARIAL COMMISSIONS

NOTICE

Sirs/Mesdames :

Please take notice that the Court en banc issued a Resolution datedJUNE 22, 2021, which reads as follows:

"B.M. No. 3795 — RE: REQUEST FOR EXTENSION OF EXISTING NOTARIAL COMMISSIONS

RESOLUTION

The Court resolves to NOTE the letter dated June 17, 2021 of Atty. Domingo Egon Q. Cayosa, National President of the Integrated Bar of the Philippines; Atty. Rico Domingo, President of the Philippine Bar Association; and Attys. Sherisa P. Nuesa and Jose Jerome R. Pascual III, Chairperson and President, respectively, of the Judicial Reform Initiative, Inc., seeking to further extend the validity of all notarial commissions issued in 2019 and originally expiring as of December 31, 2020 for an additional period of six (6) months.

Following the Court's Resolution dated December 1, 2020, which automatically extended the validity of existing notarial commissions originally expiring on December 31, 2020 "for a period of six (6) months or until June 30, 2021," the Court further resolves to GRANT the request for additional extension noted herein.

Accordingly, all notarial commissions granted in 2019 and whose validity had been previously extended until June 30, 2021 are deemed further extended, and shall thus remain valid for an additional period of six (6) months beginning July 1, 2021 until December 31, 2021. During this additional six (6)-month period, the notaries public whose terms are deemed extended shall continue performing notarial acts using their existing seals." Leonen, J., on official leave. (adv7)

By Authority of the Court:

(SGD.) MARIFE M. LOMIBAO-CUEVASClerk of Court