75 IAC 7-10-2 Single certificate format

Sec. 2. (a) The secretary of state shall adopt a format for apostille authentications that is consistent with the Trilingual Model Apostille Certificate maintained by the Hague Conference on Private International Law. (b) The format adopted under subsection (a) must be used even if the document's destination country has not ratified or adopted the Hague Convention of October 5, 1961, Abolishing the Requirement of Legalisation for Foreign Public Documents (Apostille Convention). The certificate must include a statement to facilitate the use of the certificate in foreign countries that have not ratified or adopted the Apostille Convention.