[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 22, Volume 1]
[Revised as of April 1, 2005]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 22CFR92.38]

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                       TITLE 22--FOREIGN RELATIONS
 
                     CHAPTER I--DEPARTMENT OF STATE
 
PART 92_NOTARIAL AND RELATED SERVICES--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 92.38  Forms of certificate of authentication.

    The form of a certificate of authentication depends on the statutory 
requirements of the jurisdiction where the authenticated document will 
be used (see Sec. 92.39 regarding the provisions of Federal law). 
Before authenticating a document for use in a State or Territory of the 
United States, a consular officer should consult the pertinent law 
digest to ascertain what specific requirements must be met, or he should 
be guided by any special information he may receive from the attorney or 
other person requesting the document with regard to the applicable 
statutory requirements. (See Sec. 92.41(e) regarding material which 
should not be in the certificate of authentication.) If no provisions 
relating to authentications can be found in a particular State

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or Territorial law digest, and in the absence of any special information 
from the attorney or other person requesting the document, the officer 
should prepare the certificate of authentication in the form which seems 
best suited to the needs of the case. When in his opinion the 
circumstances seem to warrant, and always in connection with 
certificates of marriage or divorce decrees, a consular officer should 
include in the body of his certificate of authentication a qualifying 
statement reading as follows: ``For the contents of the annexed document 
I assume no responsibility.''