law: Notaries Act, 1952
  2. Definitions
  In this Act, unless the context otherwise
  
  requires,-
  (a) [Omitted]
  (b) "instrument" includes every document
  
  by which any right or liability is, or purports to be, created, transferred,
  
  modified, limited, extended, suspended, extinguished or recorded;
  3[(c) "legal practitioner" means an
  
  advocate entered in any roll under the provisions of the Advocates Act, 1961;]
  (d) "notary" means a person
  
  appointed as such under this Act:
  PROVIDED that for a period of two years from the
  
  commencement of the Act, it shall include also a person who, before such
  
  commencement, was appointed a notary public under the Negotiable Instruments
  
  Act, 1881, (XXVI of 1881), immediately before such commencement, in practice in
  
  any part of India:
  PROVIDED FURTHER that in relation to
  
  the State of  Jammu and Kashmir , the said period of
  
  two years shall be computed from the date on which this Act comes into force in
  
  that State.
  (e) "prescribed" means prescribed by
  
  rules made under this Act;
  (f) "register" means a Register of
  
  Notaries maintained by the government under section 4;
  (g) "State Government" in relation
  
  to a Union Territory means the administrator thereof.