[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 22, Volume 1]
[Revised as of April 1, 2002]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 22CFR52.2]

[Page 272]
 
                       TITLE 22--FOREIGN RELATIONS
 
                     CHAPTER I--DEPARTMENT OF STATE
 
PART 52--MARRIAGES--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 52.2  Authentication of marriage and divorce documents.

    (a) Whenver a consular officer is requested to authenticate the 
signature of local authorities on a document of marriage when he was not 
a witness to the marriage, he shall include in the body of his 
certificate of authentication the qualifying statement, ``For the 
contents of the annexed document, the Consulate (General) assumes no 
responsibility.''
    (b) A consular officer shall include the same statement in 
certificates of authentication accompanying decrees of divorce.

[31 FR 13546, Oct. 20, 1966. Redesignated at 51 FR 26247, July 22, 1986]