(f)
acting as notary and civil registrar and in capacities of a similar kind, and performing certain
functions of an administrative nature, provided that there is nothing contrary thereto in the laws and
regulations of the receiving State;
(g)
safeguarding the interests of nationals, both individuals and bodies corporate, of the sending
States in cases of succession mortis causa in the territory of the receiving State, in accordance with the
laws and regulations of the receiving State;
(h)
safeguarding, within the limits imposed by the laws and regulations of the receiving State, the
interests of minors and other persons lacking full capacity who are nationals of the sending State,
particularly where any guardianship or trusteeship is required with respect to such persons;
(i)
subject to the practices and procedures obtaining in the receiving State, representing or arranging
appropriate representation for nationals of the sending State before the tribunals and other authorities of
the receiving State, for the purpose of obtaining, in accordance with the laws and regulations of the
receiving State, provisional measures for the preservation of the rights and interests of these nationals,
where, because of absence or any other reason, such nationals are unable at the proper time to assume
the defence of their rights and interests;
(j)
transmitting judicial and extrajudicial documents or executing letters rogatory or commissions to
take evidence for the courts of the sending State in accordance with international agreements in force or,
in the absence of such international agreements, in any other manner compatible with the laws and
regulations of the receiving State;
(k)
exercising rights of supervision and inspection provided for in the laws and regulations of the
sending State in respect of vessels having the nationality of the sending State, and of aircraft registered
in that State, and in respect of their crews;
(l)
extending assistance to vessels and aircraft mentioned in subparagraph (k) of this article, and to
their crews, taking statements regarding the voyage of a vessel, examining and stamping the ship’s
papers, and, without prejudice to the powers of the authorities of the receiving State, conducting
investigations into any incidents which occurred during the voyage, and settling disputes of any kind
between the master, the officers and the seamen insofar as this may be authorized by the laws and
regulations of the sending State;
(m) performing any other functions entrusted to a consular post by the sending State which are not
prohibited by the laws and regulations of the receiving State or to which no objection is taken by the
receiving State or which are referred to in the international agreements in force between the sending
State and the receiving State.
Article 6
Exercise of consular functions outside the consular district
A consular officer may, in special circumstances, with the consent of the receiving State, exercise
his functions outside his consular district.
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