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ARTICLE-1: DEFINITIONS     [go to this ARTICLE]
... (e) "consular employee" means any person employed in the administrative or technical service of a consular post; ...


ARTICLE-5: CONSULAR FUNCTIONS     [go to this ARTICLE]
... (f) acting as notary and civil registrar and in capacities of a similar kind, and performing certain functions of an administrative nature, provided that there is nothing contrary thereto in the laws and regulations of the receiving State; ...


ARTICLE-43: IMMUNITY FROM JURISDICTION     [go to this ARTICLE]
... 1. Consular officers and consular employees shall not be amenable to the jurisdiction of the judicial or administrative authorities of the receiving State in respect of acts performed in the exercise of consular functions. ...


ARTICLE-44: LIABILITY TO GIVE EVIDENCE     [go to this ARTICLE]
... 1. Members of a consular post may be called upon to attend as witnesses in the course of judicial or administrative proceedings. A consular employee or a member of the service staff shall not, except in the cases mentioned in paragraph 3 of this Article, decline to give evidence. If a consular officer should decline to do so, no coercive measure or penalty may be applied to him. ...


ARTICLE-45: WAIVER OF PRIVILEGES AND IMMUNITIES     [go to this ARTICLE]
... 4. The waiver of immunity from jurisdiction for the purposes of civil or administrative proceedings shall not be deemed to imply the waiver of immunity from the measures of execution resulting from the judicial decisio n; in respect of such measures, a separate waiver shall be necessary. ...