s 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.