Legal basis: Measures for the Administration of Registration of Judicial Authentication Institutions in People's Republic of China (PRC).
Article 3 The judicial administrative organ is the competent organ of judicial authentication facing the society, and guides and supervises the judicial authentication institutions and their authentication activities.
The judicial administrative organs of the people's governments at or above provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government are the registration administrative organs of judicial authentication institutions (hereinafter referred to as the registration administrative organs), which are responsible for the establishment registration, change registration and cancellation registration of judicial authentication institutions, and perform the duties of annual inspection and administrative punishment of judicial authentication institutions.
Without the approval of the registration authority, no unit may engage in judicial authentication activities oriented to social services.
Article 4 Judicial authentication institutions shall independently conduct judicial authentication according to law, and shall not be illegally interfered by any organization or individual.
Article 5 A judicial authentication institution shall not engage in authentication activities beyond the approved authentication business scope.
Article 6 A judicial authentication institution shall, in accordance with laws, regulations, rules and its articles of association, organize judicial authenticators to carry out professional work, and dismiss or dismiss judicial authenticators who are not suitable for continuing their practice due to violation of laws and regulations.