The Consular Section of the British Embassy in Prague can receive affidavits and statutory declarations, witness signatures on legal documents for use in the United Kingdom, British Dependant Territories and some Commonwealth countries not represented in the Czech Republic.

 

Other allied services can also be performed at the Consular Section.

 

The Consular Section cannot give legal advice or provide a translation service.

 

If you would like the documents to be returned to you by post please enclose a stamped, self addressed envelope to cover the return cost.

 

The following is a list of most frequently performed legalisation and Notarial Services:

 

• Certified Copy of a document
• Notice of Marriage and Certificate of No Impediment
• Apostille of a document by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office Legalisation Office
• Affidavit (eg Confirmation of Police Record & Letter of Good Conduct

Please see the current consular fees. 

 

If you require your document to be apostilled by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO), you will need to send it to the FCO Legalisation Department in order to get the apostille. The address is as follows:

 

Contact us

 

By telephone:
01908 295 111
10am-12pm and 2pm-3pm
Monday to Friday, excluding public holidays.

 

 

By fax:
01908 295 122

 

By post or in person:
The Legalisation Office
Norfolk House (West)
437 Silbury Boulevard
Milton Keynes
MK9 2AH

 

FCO Legalisation website

 

In certain circumstances Czech authorities ask for a so-called ‘Vypis z rejstriku trestu’, in order to establish whether you do or do not have a criminal record in the UK. This is required if, for example, you are setting up a company in the Czech Republic. To obtain confirmation on police records in the UK, you should contact the police constabulary of the county where you last lived in the UK. You can make your application using a “subject access form”, which is available from the constabulary.

A list of constabularies and their websites can be found on the UK Police Force, www.police.uk, under the heading ‘Police Forces’. Full details on how to make your application are available on local constabulary websites, on the Subject Access page, in the section Freedom of Information / Data Protection. Please note that a fee is charged for this service, and once the relevant constabulary has received your application, the process can take up to 40 days.

 

The UK police force does not issue Certificates of Good Conduct or other evidence of good character. However, the Embassy’s Consular Section is able to provide British citizens resident in the Czech Republic with a letter of good conduct, which in some cases is sufficient for the Czech authorities. As this service incurs a fee, please check that it is acceptable to the authorities in question before you commission it.