Art. 11 Act on Public Notarisation (Notarisation Act, BeurkG) (Beurkundungsgesetz, BeurkG) - Grounds for Exclusion

1. The officiating officer shall not perform duties if involved in the notarization or directly interested are

a. the officiating officer themselves;

b. a person on whose behalf the officiating officer acts;

c. anyone from the following relatives

1. * Spouse, fiancé, registered partner, or de facto life partner,

2. Relatives in a direct line, step-parents, or stepchildren, parents-in-law, son-in-law, or daughter-in-law,

3. Relatives or in-laws in the collateral line up to the third degree,

4. Adoptive parents or adoptive children, foster parents or foster children;

d. a private law legal entity to whose governing body or control body the officiating officer belongs;

e. a public law legal entity to whose administrative body or control body the officiating officer belongs;

f. a general or limited partnership of which the officiating officer is a member.

2. The ground for exclusion based on marriage remains in effect even after its dissolution.

3. The notary shall not perform duties if the document to be drafted is to be entered in a public register maintained by them.

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