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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. ...
... 5. Honorary consular officers who are heads of consular posts shall rank in each class after career heads of consular posts, in the order and according to the rules laid down in the foregoing paragraphs. ...


ARTICLE-21: PRECEDENCE AS BETWEEN CONSULAR OFFICERS OF A CONSULAR POST     [go to this ARTICLE]
... The order of precedence as between the consular officers of a consular post and any change thereof shall be notified by the diplomatic mission of the sending State or, if that State has no such mission in the receiving State, by the head of the consular post, to the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of the receiving State or to the authority designated by that Ministry. ...