Africa-Press – Angola. The Angolan jurist Luís Manuel Rangel recommended this Wednesday, in Luanda, the liberalization or privatization of the notarial activity in the country, to allow a more simplified, quicker work and more adequate public services.
“Analyzing the current situation of notary services, one comes to the conclusion that they effectively need greater and better dynamism, with the entry, above all, of private entities”, said Luís Rangel to the press on the sidelines of the launching ceremony of his work “ The liberalization of the notary in Angola in light of the principles of public governance”.
The aforementioned work was published in November 2022, with 500 copies, by WhereAngola (WA) publishing house, has 196 pages and is being sold at 8,000 kwanzas per copy.
According to the jurist, “the Angolan notary is still very bureaucratic, it is not extended to the entire extension of the national territory, the working conditions are still, therefore, not adequate for what is the demand of the activity itself”.
It argues that privatization consists of the possibility of allowing private entities, complying with legal requirements, to carry out notarial activity in the country.
Therefore, he said, they are no longer public notaries or State employees and begin to exercise a private forum activity, through the licensing, by the State, of certain people who will be able to open private notaries “at their own risk”.
He referred that, in this way, the State will have, among others, the mission of creating its own structures to control the activity of these bodies, through the adoption of adequate mechanisms for the supervision of the acts, such as the computerization of the system, a situation that could also solve the issue of forgery.
“With the implementation of liberalization or privatization, we will have the creation of electronic mechanisms in which all notarial activity, all acts performed by notaries, must be uploaded to a platform, where the public entity, in this case the Ministry of Justice or another entity that is created, it will be able to supervise remotely all notarial acts”.
In his view, privatization itself may be one of the mechanisms that will make the provision of public services more extensive.
Born in Malanje, Luís Manuel Rangel has a degree in Law from Universidade Agostinho Neto, a Master’s in Law from the University of Lisbon, where he is currently studying for a PhD in Law in the specialty of Public Law.
The author is a senior member of the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights, where he was, among others, director of the Office of the Secretary of State for Justice, from 2012 to 2017, and legal adviser to the Deputy Minister of Justice for Registries and Notaries, from 2008 to 2012.
He is currently a notary at the 6th Notary Office in Luanda and teaches at the Universities Methodist of Angola and Óscar Ribas, where he teaches Public Administration Law, Administrative Litigation Law, Registry and Notary Law.
He was a member of the Technical Group of the Commission for the Reform of Justice and Law.
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