Apostille Act 2020 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 2 · Proof of Origin of Foreign Public Documents
6. What is a foreign public document
Feedback & supportIn this Part, “foreign public document” —
means —
a document executed in the territory of a Convention State and falling within any of the following categories:
Convention State
“Convention State” means a State Party to the Convention other than Singapore, but does not include —(a)any State Party that objected to Singapore’s accession to the Convention; and(b)any State Party whose accession to the Convention Singapore objected to;
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.