Apostille Convention
1961 foreign document certification treaty / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Convention of 5 October 1961 Abolishing the Requirement of Legalisation for Foreign Public Documents, also known as the Apostille Convention, is an international treaty drafted by the Hague Conference on Private International Law (HCCH). The Apostille Convention is intended to simplify the procedure through which a document, issued in one of the contracting states, can be certified for legal purposes in the other contracting states of the Convention. A certification under the Convention is called an apostille or Hague apostille (from French apostille, meaning a marginal or bottom note, derived from Latin post illa, meaning "after those [words of the text]").[2] An apostille is an international certification comparable to a notarisation, and may supplement a local notarisation of the document. If the Convention applies between two states, an apostille issued by the state of origin is sufficient to certify the document, and removes the need for further certification by the destination state.
Convention of 5 October 1961 Abolishing the Requirement of Legalisation for Foreign Public Documents | |
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Signed | 5 October 1961 (1961-10-05) |
Location | The Hague, Netherlands |
Effective | 24 January 1965 |
Condition | Ratification by 3 signatories[1] |
Parties | 126 |
Depositary | Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands |
Languages | French (prevailing in case of divergence) and English |
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