Advocate N. J. Parmar

The practice

This office does three things that usually happen in three different places: it issues e-stamps as a Government authorised e-Stamping centre, it drafts documents in Gujarati and English, and it notarises them. Behind all three is a practice at the Bar going back more than thirty-five years.

That combination is not accidental. Under section 3 of the Notaries Act, 1952 read with Rule 3 of the Notaries Rules, 1956, notaries are appointed from among advocates of at least ten years' standing (seven years for women, for SC, ST and OBC applicants, and for a person with a benchmark disability), and Rule 4 requires an advocate's application to be routed through the District Judge or the Presiding Officer of the court where the applicant practises. The statutory scheme assumes a practising advocate. Court practice and notaryship are meant to run together — and for the client, the practical effect is that the person drafting the document is the person who has seen what happens to documents like it when they are tested.

How we work

We ask what you are trying to do, not what document you want

Most people arrive asking for a document by name, because somebody told them to get it. Frequently it is the wrong one — a legal heir certificate where a succession certificate is needed, a notarised agreement where the Sub-Registrar is unavoidable, an affidavit for a passport annexure that no longer requires one. Working out what is actually needed is the first part of the job, and it is not charged for.

We quote in three parts

Stamp duty, drafting, notarial fee. Separately, before the work starts. Stamp duty is a government charge collected at face value. The notarial fee is capped by law — Rule 10 of the Notaries Rules, 1956 sets ₹35 for attesting execution, ₹35 for taking an affidavit, ₹10 a page for a true copy. Drafting is professional work and is charged as such. Anyone quoting a single lump figure without that breakdown is not being straight with you. Our full fee page →

We draft in the language you actually read

A great deal of documentation in Vadodara is drafted in English and then explained in Gujarati. That is backwards. If the parties read Gujarati, the document should be drafted in Gujarati — legal Gujarati has its own settled vocabulary, and a literal translation out of an English template frequently means something looser, or something else entirely.

We tell you when you do not need us

Most passport annexures are now plain-paper self-declarations. Anti-ragging undertakings moved online to antiragging.in. EPFO corrections are usually an online joint declaration. Under the Gujarat Shops and Establishments Act, 2019 as recently amended, smaller establishments fall under an intimation route rather than registration. Each of those is work we could have sold. We would rather you came back for the next thing, and sent your family. What a notary can and cannot do →

The e-Stamping centre

We are a Government authorised e-Stamping centre, CSC ID 136237240013. The e-stamp certificate is issued here, against your document, in the denomination it actually requires, with a unique number that anyone — the bank, the court, the Sub-Registrar, the other party — can verify online. That verifiability is the practical reason e-stamping has largely displaced physical paper for anything that matters.

Court matters

Civil suits, property and title disputes, landlord and tenant, cheque bounce under section 138 of the Negotiable Instruments Act, criminal matters, matrimonial and family proceedings, succession petitions, consumer complaints, and appeals from all of these. More on court work →

Statutory obligations we take seriously

• Rule 10(2) — the rate of fees must be displayed conspicuously inside as well as outside the office. Ours are, and they are on this website.
• Rule 11(2) — every notarial act is entered in the Notarial Register in Form XV.
• Rule 11(9) — a receipt is granted for every fee charged. Ask for one, here and everywhere.
• Section 8(2) — no act is a notarial act unless done under signature and official seal.

Part of Harsiddhi Services

This practice is the notary and legal-drafting arm of Harsiddhi Services — a documentation and compliance centre in Vadodara, working on government documentation, applications, drafting and compliance since 2017. Registered business, GSTIN {GSTIN}, CSC ID {CSC}.

That matters for a practical reason. Documents rarely arrive alone. A name-change affidavit is usually the first step of a Gazette notification, which is then followed by Aadhaar, PAN, passport, bank and school record updates. A partnership deed is usually followed by a GST registration. A property purchase brings a loan file behind it. Under one roof, at one address, those follow-on steps do not become somebody else's problem.

Same address, same phone, same counter. You do not need to know which website your job belongs to — call {PH_D} and we will route it.