[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 22, Volume 1]

[Revised as of April 1, 2006]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 22CFR92.38]



[Page 370-371]

 

                       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.''