Article 1 Definitions

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(a)

‘consular post’ means any consulate-general, consulate, vice-consulate or consular agency;

(b)

‘consular district’ means the area assigned to a consular post for the exercise of consular functions;

(c)

‘head of consular post’ means the person charged with the duty of acting in that capacity;

(d)

‘consular officer’ means any person, including the head of a consular post, entrusted in that capacity with the exercise of consular functions;

(e)

‘consular employee’ means any person employed in the administrative or technical service of a consular post;

(f)

‘member of the service staff’ means any person employed in the domestic service of a consular post;

(g)

‘members of the consular post’ means consular officers, consular employees and members of the service staff;

(h)

‘members of the consular staff’ means consular officers, other than the head of a consular post, consular employees and members of the service staff;

(i)

‘member of the private staff’ means a person who is employed exclusively in the private service of a member of the consular post;

(j)

‘consular premises’ means the buildings or parts of buildings and the land ancillary thereto, irrespective of ownership, used exclusively for the purposes of the consular post;

(k)

‘consular archives’ includes all the papers, documents, correspondence, books, films, tapes and registers of the consular post, together with the ciphers and codes, the card-indexes and any article of furniture intended for their protection or safekeeping.

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