Section 142-a mainly provides that certain official acts of notaries are not invalidated by listed defects. Which statement is most accurate?

The section also eliminates any criminal liability that might otherwise arise from the act.

The section can never apply after six months.

The section does not relieve a notary from criminal liability and does not enlarge the notary’s actual authority.

The section makes every defective acknowledgment automatically valid even when the defect was known on the face of the certificate.