Certification of Criminal Record
It is the official document with which the
existence or absence of the same is validated for all the procedures that require it. They are valid for up to 6 months.
In order to request Criminal Records Certification, the presence of the interested party is required, carrying his Identity Card and a stamp of $5.00. The procedure is carried out in the Municipal Directions of Justice of each territory.

Service hours: Monday to Thursday from 8:00AM to 5:30 PM
Friday from: 8:00 to 4:30 PM

Cancellation of Criminal Records.
The procedure is PERSONAL. Those interested must present an updated Criminal History certificate and their Identity Card. The stamp has a value of 10.00 MN. The procedure is carried out in the provincial Direction of Justice located in Calle Máximo Gómez No 23 Ormani Arenado and Gerardo Medina. Pinar del Río
Service hours: Monday through Thursday from 8:00AM to 5:30 M
Friday from: 8:00 to 4:30 PM
You can also apply online through the Ministry of Justice website. To do so, click on the following link: Criminal History Criminal records

Dependency of the Ministry of Justice, whose social function is to register the Testamentary Parties and Declaratory Acts of Heirs that are granted in any of the notaries' offices in the country, as well as any modification or annulment of these notarial instruments by Judicial Resolution. This inscription is made ex officio by the Registry, that is to say, the natural persons will not have to do any management.
It also certifies the existence or absence of wills or declaration of heirs, for this application Any person may make the request.
If the intention is to update a Declaration of Heirs Act, it will be necessary to present the act in question and $10.00 in stamps, which can be 1 stamp of $10.00 or 2 of $5.00.
The Act of Declaration of Heirs that contains in its margin expression of the volume and folio will be valid for a term of one year from its date of authorization.
Certifications issued are valid for 6 months, after which period, if necessary, they must be applied for again. The explanation lies in the fact that any of the notarial instruments may be modified or annulled judicially.
In order to process your application, you must go to the Provincial Directorate of Justice located at Calle Máximo Gómez No 23 e/ Ormani Arenado y Ge Gerardo Medina. Pinar del Río or to the nearest law firm.
You can also apply online, through the website of the Ministry of Justice. To do so, click on the following link: Inheritance and Acts of Last Will

The Mercantile Registry, is a Registry of legal character, with constitutive effects for certain subjects and contracts, that is to say from their inscription the subjects acquire legal personality and the contracts enter into force, "with exception of the companies in perfection"; being of declarative character for the rest of the acts, facts and circumstances.
The Mercantile Registry System is made up of:
a) The Central Mercantile Registry is located in the city of Havana and has jurisdiction and competence throughout the national territory; and
b) The Territorial Mercantile Registries, attached to the Ministry of Justice, with provincial competence and jurisdiction.
THE FOLLOWING SUBJECTS AND ACTS ARE ENTERED IN THE COMMERCIAL REGISTER
(a) State-owned enterprises undergoing business development;
b) mercantile companies with totally Cuban capital and their branches in the national territory;
c) Joint ventures, international economic association contracts and totally foreign capital companies;
d) foreign natural persons who, by virtue of the legislation in force, are authorized to operate in Cuba on their own;
e) branches of foreign mercantile companies;
f) such other subjects and acts as may be ordered by the Executive Committee of the Council of Ministers.
DID YOU KNOW...? Entities must request their registration in the Mercantile Registry, within the month following the granting of the necessary documents for the practice of the entries. Once this term has elapsed, the fees corresponding to the inscribable act are increased.
From the Present: New subject inscribable in the Territorial Mercantile Registries the COOPERATIVAS NO AGROPECUARIAS.
ABOUT NON-AGRICULTURAL COOPERATIVES:
The constitution of the Cooperative is formalized by means of Public Deed before Notary, as an essential requirement for its validity, and acquires legal personality from its inscription in the Mercantile Registry.
In the Notarial Public Deed of "Constitution of First Degree Non-Agricultural Cooperatives", a copy of the authorization dictated by the local body of the People's Power, national organism or entity and the statutes, all of which is attached to the deed, shall be accompanied. It shall also contain proof of the disbursement of the minimum working capital.
Statutory amendments are formalized by means of a notarized Public Deed, where the Agreement adopted at the General Assembly is annexed. The deed must contain the new wording of the statutes that are modified or added, as well as the expression of those that are repealed or replaced.
Natural persons to be members of a cooperative must meet the following requirements:
a. Be 18 years old;
b. Be a permanent resident in Cuba; and
c. Be able to perform productive or service tasks that constitute their activity.
Schedule of the service: Monday to Thursday from 8:00AM to 5:30 PM
Friday from: 8:00 to 4:30 PM
Place of service request: Calle Máximo Gómez No 23 e/ Ormani Arenado y Gerardo Medina. Pinar del Río

It is responsible for ensuring compliance with the policies and guidelines drawn up by the MINJUS for the operation of the activity of Legal Advice to legal persons in the province, as well as quality control with which such service is provided, for which control actions are planned and executed, both in Substantive and Procedural Law, to the subjects representing the different modalities of provision of legal services, meaning: lawyers of the National Organization of Law Firms, consultants of the Provincial Company of Legal Consultancy and Advisors themselves of the province.
The Entities.
Its functions also include the identification of legal entities in the territory that operate in the national economy without the legal coverage provided by the service provided by the aforementioned entities and the verification through inspections of the legal situation presented by these entities.
The Department is responsible for complaints, requests, denunciations and suggestions made by the population, related to the actions and services offered by specialists from the Provincial Office of Justice who work in the Reparation Fund, the Central Registry of Sanctions (Cancellation of Criminal Records), the Registry of Last Will Acts and Declarations of Heirs, the Property Registry, the Department of Attention to Collective Law Firms and Criminal Revisions, the Notary's Office, the Civil Status Registry and the Department of Legal Attention to Associations Registered in the province.