Further, states party to the Convention were encouraged (at the Sixth International Forum on the E-App in 2010, Conclusions and Recommendations, paragraph 5 (a)-RRB- to
issue apostilles with non-consecutive numbers.
If no one in Canada asks for legalization now, we can accede to the Convention based on administrative agreements among federal / provincial / territorial governments to
issue apostilles under certain circumstances.
In any event, checking the register will usually give only a yes or no answer: did
you issue this apostille?
Not exact matches
An
apostille seal is a certificate or stamp
issued by our Department of Foreign Affairs.
Since Canada is considering acceding to this Convention, this column will review some of the
issues involved in that process and in particular the technological frontiers of authentication that The Hague Conference on Private International Law is exploring with respect to electronic
apostilles.
Though the Convention refers to card indexes as well as registers, the latter — media - neutral — term is now preferred for the official record of
apostilles issued.
Each competent authority is bound to create a register or card index to record the number, date, signer and capacity of signer of each
apostille issued.
In principle the prospective user of an apostillized document in the destination state can check with the
issuing register to confirm that an
apostille was indeed
issued for a particular document.
(Second regional meeting of the e-APP for Europe project, May 27, 2011, slide 18, followed by examples from the registers» websites) They range from a simple confirmation that the
apostille referred to was
issued, to a description of the underlying document, to a copy of the underlying document, to the validation of the digital signature on the document.
It may be that the Hague Legalization Convention about which I wrote last month can be implemented by administrative action to create a system to
issue and keep a register of
apostilles.
The e-apostille program also includes an electronic register in which competent authorities record all
apostilles they
issue.