The Role of the Notary in Development of National Legal Order

Legal order has two different meanings: The first one is a collection of regulations that governs people in the society. The second one is legal security which is derived from the enforcement of legal rules and is one of the main objectives of the establishment of legal rules. In this article along with analyzingnotary’s role in development of legal order, we will consider both of those meanings and will see that in spite of importance and expertise of the notary and his role as a justice of the peace, he has not managed to ful fill his traditional functions like authentication of legal acts so far in our country and as a result he cannot well participate in development and growth of legal order. Moreover after implementation privatization programs, it seems that the non sovereignty functions of the Registration Office should be delegated to the notary as an important member of private sector and the supervisory role of the Registration Office over the notaries should be more efficient than the past