Section 6

means —

a document executed in the territory of a Convention State and falling within any of the following categories:

a document emanating from an authority or official connected with the courts or tribunals of that State, including a document emanating from a public prosecutor, a clerk of a court or a process‑server;

an administrative document;

a notarial act;

an official certificate that is placed on a document signed by a person in his or her private capacity (for example, an official certificate recording the registration of a document or the fact that the document was in existence on a certain date, or an official or a notarial authentication of a signature); or

a document (including a document that is not signed, sealed or stamped) that —

emanates from a Convention State; and

is treated as a public document by the law of that State; but(b)does not include a document executed by a diplomatic or consular agent.