The dynamic nature of updating Ukrainian national legislation, which has long been in a state of turbulence due to reforms, requires its comprehensive analysis, in particular in terms of conceptualizing the legislative model of the institution of notaries in accordance with its legal nature, functions and tasks. This issue has become relevant in the light of recent constitutional changes related to the justice system reform and allied legal institutions, including the notaries, as the analysis of policy documents does not give a clear idea of the role, place and prospects of notaries in this system.

The purpose of the article is to throw light upon the general approaches to substantiating the concept of the development of the notaries of Ukraine in terms of visions of legal reforms carried out in the state and in the context of the formation of the domestic scientific notaries theory at the doctrinal level.

The legislative provision of the institution of notaries of Ukraine is analyzed, in particular in the context of the action plans and policy documents on judicial and legal reform adopted at the national level. at the same time, the process of development of the notaries theory is covered, which, due to the fundamental nature of scientific research, theoretical conceptualization and knowledge systematization, acquires features of branch differentiation in the legal system, while performing a prognostic function of identifying trends and substantiating practically weighted approaches to the development of the institution of notaries and legislation in this sphere.

Further development of the Ukrainian notaries needs conceptualizing its legislative provision. The expediency of drafting a notarial code based on the principle of complex branch subject codification is substantiated. Within the framework of this code the following main issues should be conceptually resolved: constitutive definition of objectives, tasks and functions of the notaries as a constitutional and legal institution (allied with the objectives of the justice system); institutionalization of the notaries of Ukraine in accordance with the principles of the Latin notarial system (the decentralization of power in the notarial field; the expansion of professional self-government functions; the transformation of the public sector of notaries in order to implement the model of the single notaries; the definition of the system of notarial bodies); choice of the legislative model of the notarial process (taking into account its structure and the level of procedural safeguarding the protection of rights in accordance with paragraph 1 of article 92(1) of the constitution of Ukraine); introduction of the “notarial service” model (in particular, for considerations of differentiation of services for the introduction of mechanisms for the state to provide access to notarial protection within the single notaries for socially vulnerable categories of citizens); prospects for the implementation of the “electronic notary” model (in the context of the national program of digitalization of Ukraine and the national cybersecurity strategy). It is emphasized on the importance of qualified scientific provision of the legislative process for the development of the draft code.

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