JEDDAH: Saudi Justice Minister and Chairman of the Supreme Judicial Council Waleed Al-Samaani has addressed the need to expand the Mobile Notary Public (MNP) to further serve people.
The project started in Riyadh and has now expanded to Makkah, Madinah, Jeddah, Dammam, Khobar, Dhahran, Buraidah and Unaizah.
MNP is a free service provided by the ministry for beneficiaries who are unable to go to notary offices such as the elderly (who are over 70 years old), the sick, people with disabilities and patients in hospitals and nursing homes.
The notary visits the location of the beneficiary by appointment and provides the service without having to go through the Notary Public.
The number of operations provided has reached more than 13,500, and 65 hospitals and nursing homes are participating in the service.
Guardians of the Southern border were the first to benefit from the service as soon as it was launched, as they are some of the most important groups the ministry targeted as they protect the country.
The MNP initiative can be used in three different ways: Through the MNP application, via the telephone number and by email. The notary then visits the service requestor’s location and provides the service, taking into account the circumstances of some community groups.
The initiative aims to enable prisoners and patients in hospitals to document their wishes in some moments that were described as “critical” by some, since many have postponed their decisions until they were overtaken by sickness.
The service was viewed by some as a lifeline that maintains their rights or their chances to achieve some duties until being discharged from the hospital. This was a difficult task before the creation of this service.
