Public purchase witnesses do it as their job or as appointed. Public purchase witnesses who witness as a part of their job are those officials in district survey offices who are competent to work as cadastral surveyors.
Public purchase witnesses can be
- district registrars, notary publics, police chiefs, deputy police chiefs, rural police chiefs, head magistrates of judicial districts, magistrates of judicial districts, provincial magistrates, head prosecutors of judicial districts, provincial prosecutor and land surveyors in agricultural areas and those officials of district survey offices and municipalities who are competent to work as cadastral surveyors.
- those officials of the magistrate, judicial district office and district survey office whom the head of the office has appointed public purchase witnesses
- those persons, whom a district court has appointed public purchase witnesses based on an application,
- as well as those officials and employees representing the country's interests overseas, as meant by Section 33 of the Consular Services Act (489/1999).
Information about who can act as a public purchase witness is available from district survey offices and from the home pages of cities and municipalities.