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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; ...


ARTICLE-11: THE CONSULAR COMMISSION OR NOTIFICATION OF APPOINTMENT     [go to this ARTICLE]
... THE CONSULAR COMMISSION OR NOTIFICATION OF APPOINTMENT ...
... 1. The head of a consular post shall be provided by the sending State with a document, in the form of a commission or similar instrument, made out for each appointment, certifying his capacity and showing, as a general rule, his full name, his category and class, the consular district and the seat of the consular post. ...
... 2. The sending State shall transmit the commission or similar instrument through the diplomatic or other appropriate channel to the Government of the State in whose territory the head of a consular post is to exercise his functions. ...
... 3. If the receiving State agrees, the sending State may, instead of a commission or similar instrument, send to the receiving State a notification containing the particulars required by paragraph 1 of this Article. ...


ARTICLE-16: PRECEDENCE AS BETWEEN HEADS OF CONSULAR POSTS     [go to this ARTICLE]
... 3. The order of precedence as between two or more heads of consular posts who obtained the exequatur or provisional admission on the same date shall be determined according to the dates on which their commissions or similar instruments or the notifications referred to in paragraph 3 of Article 11 were presented to the receiving State. ...