Legalizations, Notarizations and Official Documents
Unlike other Swiss cantons, the canton of Schaffhausen does not have one central notary’s office for all types of notarial functions. Legalizations and notarial functions are performed by several different offices.

Legalizations of signatures, copies and similar documents
The Schaffhausen Town Chancery is at your disposal for legalizations of signatures, excerpts from book keeping files and financial statements, copies, transcripts or similar documents. The same legalizations are available at the Cantonal Land Registry Office / Notary or at the other municipal chanceries in the canton of Schaffhausen.

Notarizations
Notarial acts are performed by the following offices:

• Notarizations in connection with matters of inheritance or family law (marriage and testamentary contracts, wills): The Town’s Wills and Estates Office «Städtisches Erbschaftsamt», Vorstadt 43, 8200 Schaffhausen
• Real estate contracts (contracts relating to the purchase and sale of real estate, rights of pre-emption, easements, liens, mortgages etc.). All other public deeds (trusts, corporations, limited liability companies, sureties exceeding Swiss Francs 2000, affidavits etc.). Cantonal land registry Office/Notary, «Grundbuchamt und Notariat», Mühlentalstrasse 105, 8200 Schaffhausen
• Company foundations and registrations: Cantonal Commercial Register, «Handelsregisteramt» Mühlentalstrasse 105, 8200 Schaffhausen

Further Public Documents are available at the following offices:

• Identity cards, certificates certifying a person’s capacity to act, permanent residence permits, confirmations of domicile, certificates of existence: Registration of Address «Einwohnerkontrolle» Resident Control Office, Safrangasse 8, 8200 Schaffhausen
• Biometric passports: Passport Office, Mühlentalstrasse 105, 8200 Schaffhausen
• Birth-, marriage-, acknowledgement- and death certificates, as well as, for citizens of the town of Schaffhausen, civil and family status certificates: «Zivilstandsamt» Registry Office, Safrangasse 8, 8200 Schaffhausen
• Driver’s licenses and vehicle certificates, license plates: «Strassenverkehrs- und Schifffahrtsamt» Road Traffic and Shipping Licensing Office Rosengasse 8/Rheinstrasse 6, 8200 Schaffhausen
• Extracts from the register of the debt collection and bankruptcy office: «Betreibungsamt» Debt Collection and Bankruptcy Office, Münsterplatz 31, 8200 Schaffhausen