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CONFIDENTIAL

Convention

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Abolishing the Requirement of Legalisation

for Foreign Public Documents (Hague 1961)

This Convention obliges Contracting

exempt certain

public

documents from

Parties to

certification

formalities where the documents to be

issued by the

competent authority of one Contracting Party would

otherwise have to meet such requirements in order to be

admissible within another

(Article 2).

The public

documents include those emanating from courts or tribunals,

administrative documents,

certificates recording the

authenticating

to documents

a

signature.

notarial acts and official

registration of a document or

The Convention does not apply

executed by diplomatic or consular agents,

administrative documents dealing with commercial or customs

operations directly (Article 1).

2.

Contracting Parties who wish to certify the

authenticity of a

person signing

appropriate, the

are only required

signature, the capacity in which the

the document has acted ΟΙ, where

identity of the seal or stamp it bears,

to use a simple certificate in the form

of the model annexed to the Convention (Articles 3 & 4)

Each Contracting Party must designate the authorities

issue such certificates by notice to the

competent

Depositary,

to

the

Ministry of Foreign

Affairs of the

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