8. APPOINTMENT OF A NOTARY.- (1) On receipt of the report of the competent authority, the appropriate government shall consider the report and shall- (a) Allow the application in respect of the whole of the area to which it relates; or (b) Allow the application in respect of any part of the area to which it relates; or (c) Reject the application; and shall also make such orders as the government thinks fit regarding the persons by whom the whole or any part of the costs of the application including the cost of hearing, if any, shall be borne. (2) An applicant shall be informed of every order passed by the appropriate government under sub-rule (1). (3) An applicant whose application has been rejected or allowed in respect of only a part of the area to which it relates or against whom an order as to costs has been made under sub-rule (1) may, within sixty days of the date of the order apply to the appropriate government for reviewing the order and that government may, after making such further inquiry as it thinks fit pass such order as it considers necessary. (4) Where the application is allowed, the appropriate government shall appoint the applicant as a notary and direct his name to be entered in the Register of Notaries maintained by that government under section 4 of the Act and issue to him a certificate on payment of prescribed fees authorising him to practise in the area to which the application relates or in such part thereof as the appropriate government may specify in the certificate, as a notary for a period of three years from the date on which the certificate is issued to him (5) The Register of Notaries shall be in Form IIA and the certificate of practice shall be in Form IIB.
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