Notary Fees in Singapore: Clear, Statutory & Transparent

Why Notary Fees Are the Same at Every Notary in Singapore

A Notary Public in Singapore can't set their own price for a notarial act. The fees to notarize a signature, issue a notarial certificate or certify a copy are prescribed in the First Schedule to the Notaries Public Rules. A law firm in Raffles Place and a Notary who visits your HDB flat charge the same statutory amount.

So there's no cheaper notarisation to shop around for. What you're really choosing is the service around it: whether the Notary comes to you, how fast it's done, whether someone takes it to the Singapore Academy of Law (SAL) for you, and whether you see the full price upfront. Competitors rarely publish a travel fee. We publish ours below.

Statutory Notary Fees at a Glance

These are the amounts in the Notaries Public Rules, as published by Singapore law firms. Information checked: October 2026.

The prices shown above are starting prices. Your final price depends on the document type, number of pages and destination country, and will be confirmed in a written quotation before any work begins.

Most documents going overseas need a notarial certificate, so it appears in almost every total.

SAL Apostille Fees

Every document notarised in Singapore must then be authenticated by SAL, which attaches an Apostille, before it can be used overseas. SAL's own fees:

The prices shown above are starting prices. Your final price depends on the document type, number of pages and destination country, and will be confirmed in a written quotation before any work begins.

SAL's counter is at The Adelphi, 1 Coleman Street #08-06. It is open Monday to Friday, 9:00am to 4:30pm, and processes documents on the spot. Payment is made online by Visa or Mastercard only. You don't have to go yourself: SAL accepts a proxy with no authorisation letter, so we can submit it through our SAL Apostille service for documents going abroad.

What We Charge for Visits and Handling, With Nothing Hidden

These are the only fees we set ourselves. Each appears as its own line on your quote.

The prices shown above are starting prices. Your final price depends on the document type, number of pages and destination country, and will be confirmed in a written quotation before any work begins.

If several family members or company directors sign during one visit, you still pay one travel fee. The statutory fee for each extra person applies as set out above.

Typical turnaround

What You'd Actually Pay: Real Examples for Common Documents

Example 1: Certified copy of your passport for a bank abroad (one page)

The prices shown above are starting prices. Your final price depends on the document type, number of pages and destination country, and will be confirmed in a written quotation before any work begins.

For more copies or pages, see how our certified copies of passports, NRICs and licences are priced page by page.

Example 2: Power of attorney for property in India, one signer, signed at home

The prices shown above are starting prices. Your final price depends on the document type, number of pages and destination country, and will be confirmed in a written quotation before any work begins.

Each exhibit attached, such as a photo or an ID copy, adds S$10. Stamp duty in India is paid in India and isn't part of this total. Your lawyer in India confirms the stamping and registration. See the full process for a POA going to India. For other countries, read how we notarise a general, special or property POA.

Example 3: NUS or NTU degree for a job or university in Spain

SAL can directly legalise original, verifiable certificates from NUS, NTU, SMU, SIT, SUSS, SUTD, the polytechnics and ITE. When that route works, there is no notary fee:

The prices shown above are starting prices. Your final price depends on the document type, number of pages and destination country, and will be confirmed in a written quotation before any work begins.

If the receiving authority wants a notarised copy instead, the total follows Example 1: S$172.20 in statutory and SAL fees, plus our fee. Only have an OpenCerts file? OpenCerts says printouts aren't treated as authentic, so we'll check the right route first, such as requesting a physical certificate or a university-certified copy.

Costs Outside the Notary Fee: Embassy, Translation, Courier

• Embassy legalisation: Malaysia, the UAE, Qatar, Kuwait and other non-Apostille countries usually need an extra embassy step in Singapore (Thailand until 28 February 2027). Each embassy sets its own fee. See the embassy step for non-Apostille countries.
• Translation and courier: translation from S$25 per page (Chinese, Malay, Tamil ↔ English) or from S$35 per page (other languages); local courier from S$15, overseas courier quoted per case.
• Documents from government agencies: for example, an ACRA Business Profile costs S$5.50 from Bizfile, and a Registry of Marriages (ROM) marriage-record search (digital copy) is available for a small fee set by ROM.
• Fees in the destination country: stamp duty, registration or local attestation. These are paid there, not to us.

Work Out Your Total in a Minute

Add it up yourself:

1. 1Statutory notary fees for each signer, page and exhibit
2. 2SAL authentication: S$87.20 per notarial certificate
3. 3Any embassy, translation or courier cost
4. 4Our travel, urgency or proxy fee, if you choose them

We confirm the final figure after seeing your document. Deadline close? See how a same-day appointment changes the total.

Notary Fee Questions to Settle Before You Book

Get a Written Quote Before Anything Is Booked

Send the document, the destination and where to meet. You'll get an itemised quote, and nothing is booked until you say yes.

Information checked: October 2026. Sources: Notaries Public Rules (First Schedule); Singapore Academy of Law, legalisation.sal.sg.