§ 6 — What is a foreign public document

6. In this Part, “foreign public document” —(a)

means —(i)

a document executed in the territory of a Convention State and falling within any of the following categories:(A)

a document emanating from an authority or official connected with the courts or tribunals of that State, including a document emanating from a public prosecutor, a clerk of a court or a process‑server;

(B)

an administrative document;

(C)

a notarial act;

(D)

an official certificate that is placed on a document signed by a person in his or her private capacity (for example, an official certificate recording the registration of a document or the fact that the document was in existence on a certain date, or an official or a notarial authentication of a signature); or

(ii)

a document (including a document that is not signed, sealed or stamped) that —(A)

emanates from a Convention State; and

(B)

is treated as a public document by the law of that State; but

(b)

does not include a document executed by a diplomatic or consular agent.