| | Hague Convention on Legalization of Foreign Public Documents (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31) |
 | | That depends on whether the country where the document will be used in a party to a treaty on this subject called the "Hague Convention Abolishing the Requirement of Legalization for Foreign Public Documents". |
 | | All judicial documents, both penal and civil, as well as notarial deeds, are legalized by the local court of first instance, in the area where the decision or the notarial deed was issued. |
 | | The Convention abolishing the requirement of legalisation for foreign public documents, done at the Hague on 5 October 1961 (hereinafter referred to as the Convention), which applies to Macau at present, shall continue to apply to the Macau Special Administrative Region with effect from 20 December 1999. |
| travel.state.gov /law/hague_foreign_docs.html (7377 words) |