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ARTICLE-5: CONSULAR FUNCTIONS     [go to this ARTICLE]
... (j) transmitting judicial and extrajudicial documents or executing letters rogatory or commissions to take evidence for the courts of the sending State in accordance with international agreements in force or, in the absence of such international agreements, in any other manner compatible with the laws and regulations of the receiving State; ...
... (m) performing any other functions entrusted to a consular post by the sending State which are not prohibited by the laws and regulations of the receiving State or to which no objection is taken by the receiving State or which are referred to in the international agreements in force between the sending State and the receiving State. ...


ARTICLE-48: SOCIAL SECURITY EXEMPTION     [go to this ARTICLE]
... 1. Subject to the provisions of paragraph 3 of this Article, members of the consular post with respect to services rendered by them for the sending State, and members of their families forming part of their households, shall be exempt from social security provisions which may be in force in the receiving State. ...
... (b) that they are covered by the social security provisions which are in force in the sending State or a third State. ...


ARTICLE-54: OBLIGATIONS OF THIRD STATES     [go to this ARTICLE]
... 4. The obligations of third States under paragraphs 1, 2 and 3 of this Article shall also apply to the persons mentioned respectively in those paragraphs, and to official communications and to consular bags, whose presence in the territory of the third State is due to force majeure. ...


ARTICLE-73: RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE PRESENT CONVENTION AND OTHER INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS     [go to this ARTICLE]
... 1. The provisions of the present Convention shall not affect other international agreements in force as between States parties to them. ...


ARTICLE-77: ENTRY INTO FORCE     [go to this ARTICLE]
... ENTRY INTO FORCE ...
... 1. The present Convention shall enter into force on the thirtieth day following the date of deposit of the twenty-second instrument of ratification or accession with the Secretary-General of the United Nations. ...
... 2. For each State ratifying or acceding to the Convention after the deposit of the twenty-second instrument of ratification or accession, the Convention shall enter into force on the thirtieth day after deposit by such State of its instrument of ratification or accession. ...


ARTICLE-78: NOTIFICATIONS BY THE SECRETARY-GENERAL     [go to this ARTICLE]
... (b) of the date on which the present Convention will enter into force, in accordance with Article 77. ...