Among the company documents a foreign shareholder or auditor asks for, book pages often appear, and the first leaf carries a notarial certification. The certification is a short text stating the year to which the book belongs and how many pages it contains. This page sets out its basis and how the clause is read.
The basis lies in other statutes
The first paragraph of article 68 of Notaries Law No. 1512 provides that notaries certify the books required to be kept under the Turkish Commercial Code and other statutes in accordance with those statutes. Which book is to be certified is therefore determined not by the Notaries Law but by the statute concerned. In translation the name of the statute and the article number referred to in the clause are preserved; the clause is a certification, not a statement about the content of the book.
Three items in the clause
The second paragraph provides that, after certification, the notary reports the type of the certified book, the year to which it belongs and its number of pages to the relevant authorities; the same three items also appear in the certification clause. The type of the book is written under the statutory name and is not replaced with a near English book title. The number of pages appears in figures and sometimes also in words; both are rendered. The year shows the accounting period to which the book belongs.
Notification: individually or as a list
The same paragraph provides that the notification is made to the relevant authorities individually or as a list, by registered letter, in the manner required by those statutes. A file may therefore contain either a notification letter for a single book or a list covering many books. Where the list is in table form, column headings are translated and the row order is preserved; items are not merged.
The fee and postal cost record
The third paragraph provides that for the notification the notary charges the writing fee set out in the fee tariff and, where the statute makes individual notification compulsory, also the postal cost, to the interested party. This site does not state notarial fees, tariffs or charges; a figure appearing in the document is part of the document and is rendered with its currency, without rounding. The reference to the tariff is also translated as it stands in the text.
Translating the book pages
The certification clause and the content of the book are two different tasks: the clause is short and formulaic, while the content consists of accounting entries. In translation the clause stands as its own block and is not merged into the body; amounts, dates and entry numbers on the book pages are rendered as they stand. Production of books before a court or an authority is a separate subject, dealt with in a separate page on this site. Judicial and legal documents are at no stage placed in a free machine translation or artificial intelligence service. Acte Tercüme translates notarial certification clauses and certified book pages into English.