Section 16: Register to be revised

(1) Where the Chief Registrar of the Supreme Court has reason to believe that a Notary Public, whose name is on the register kept under this Act, has left Nigeria and is not returning to Nigeria or is dead, he shall have published in the Federal Government Gazette, a notice to the effect that unless the Notary Public shows cause to the contrary, his name shall be removed from the register on a date to be specified in the notice, not being less than three months from the date of the publication of the notice, and if on the specified date, cause is yet to be shown to the contrary, the Chief Registrar shall strike off the name of the Notary Public from the register.
(2) After a name has been struck off from the register, the Chief Registrar shall if possible, inform the Notary Public by notice sent to the physical or email address of the Notary Public, that his name has been removed from the register and the date of the removal.