3.7 How will my relatives know about my mandate in case of incapacity?
[Student Manual, page 19]

Your relatives can search the Registre des dispositions testamentaires et des mandats du Québec (Quebec Register of Wills and Mandates) to see if you have registered a mandate there. They can:

1. contact a notary, who will do the search for them, or
2. search the register themselves. They must send:
   1. The original recent medical and psychosocial reports saying that the mandator is not capable or a recent report from the general director of a health or social services establishment and an affidavit (a statement written and signed by a person who swears under oath that the information in the statement is true) where you say what your relationship is to the mandatary;
   2. payment by Visa or Mastercard, a money order or certified cheque in the amount of $46.02 (at the time of writing), to the order of the Chambre des notaires du Québec, and
   3. the completed application form (available by e-mail at registres@cdnq.org, or by calling 1-800-340-4496 or 1-514-879-2906)

to the following address:

Your relatives will receive a search certificate that tells them whether a mandate is registered in your name. It will also tell them the name, address and phone number of the lawyer or notary who has the original mandate.