On 30 November 2024. Law no. 7533 was adopted by parliament on 21 November 2024, published in the Official Gazette of 30 November 2024 (no. 32738) and, under its article 47, entered into force on the day of publication. Its article 15 replaced the words noterliğin bulunduğu yer valiliği, the governor’s office of the place where the notary sits, in article 199 of the Notaries Law with herhangi bir il veya ilçenin en büyük mülki amiri, the highest civil administrator of any province or district. Between 21 and 29 November 2024 the old wording was still the law.
Three dates attached to one law
Law no. 7533 amends several statutes at once; its title refers to the Law on Civil Servants of the Interior, other laws and Decree-Law no. 375. Three dates attach to it: adoption on 21 November 2024, publication in the Gazette on 30 November 2024, and entry into force, which article 47 ties to publication. The adoption date is the one printed in the citation, Law no. 7533 dated 21/11/2024, which is why it appears in footnotes and in summaries of the amendment.
Why the day of publication is the one that counts
A law adopted by parliament does not yet bind anyone. Article 47 of Law no. 7533 says in one sentence that the law enters into force on the date of its publication. The rule that the governor of any province or the district governor of any district may certify a notary’s signature therefore took effect on 30 November 2024, the date of the Gazette issue, and the official table of the Notaries Law gives the same date.
The commencement table of the Notaries Law
The consolidated text of the Notaries Law on mevzuat.gov.tr ends with a table showing when each amending law took effect and for which articles. The row for Law no. 7533 names article 199 and the date 30/11/2024. The row above it shows that Law no. 7532 changed other articles of the same law with effect from 27/11/2024, so the table separates the laws of that week day by day. The footnote under article 199 in the same text cites the law of 21/11/2024; that is the adoption date in the citation, not the starting date.
Nine days under the old wording
Between 21 and 29 November 2024 the earlier text of article 199 still applied: the notary’s signature was certified by the governor’s office of the place where the notary sat. The new rule governs certifications from 30 November 2024 onwards. A page or a translation that dates the change to 21 November 2024 has taken the adoption date for the commencement date. Whether any certificate issued in those nine days by an office outside the notary’s province was later questioned was not found in this site’s survey.
Older pages and older certificates
Some district governors’ pages still describe the former rule: the apostille pages of the Nilüfer, Sapanca and Çekmeköy district governor’s offices tell applicants to go to the office of the notary’s own province or district. Those pages repeat the text as it stood before the amendment, and the law prevails over them. A foreign office holding an apostille issued in 2025 by a district governor’s office far from the notary’s town is looking at the current rule, not at an irregularity. What the amendment changed in practice is covered on this site’s pages on notarial acts; this page answers only the date.
Dates in a translated file
When a Turkish document cites the amendment, the translator renders the citation exactly as written and does not turn an adoption date into a commencement date or the reverse. A certificate or a notarial text dated inside the nine-day window keeps its date in the translation; any legal consequence of that date is for the authority reading the file.