Published D.O. 25 set/014-NAº 29054

NAº 19.268 Act

CONSULAR LAW " N CONSULAR

APPROVAL " N

The Senate and the CA of Representatives of the Eastern Republic of Uruguay, meeting in General Assembly,

DECREE:

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ArtAculoA 1Aº. -A consular work, as a public service to the city, involves adapting traditional activities to the principles of administrative simplification, technological modernization and full respect for the rights and dignity of the compatriots, as well as the protection and promotion of their interests abroad. On these principles, the task of the national Consular Corps should be cemented.

ArtAculoA 2Aº. -A Consular Corps of the Republic will be composed of career consular officers and honorary consular officers.

ArtAculoA 3Aº. -A career consular officers will be Heads of Consular Section, General, General, Consular Sectors, and District Councils with the Executive Branch. According to the circumstances and conditions of the consular circumscription and the needs of the consular post concerned, they may be designated as attachments.

ArtAculoA 4Aº. -A career consular officers will be officials of the Foreign Service of the Republic and appoint them to the Executive Branch.

ArtAculoA 5Aº. -A career consular officers shall not in their own benefit exercise any other activity in the receiving State, without the prior consent of the Executive Branch in accordance with the provisions of the The first paragraph of Article 57 of the ArtAculoA 6Aº. -A honorary consular officers will be of two classes: District and ViceNsuls.

It may also be the Executive Power to credit the General Fees in those paAces whose commercial movement with the Republic does not compensate for the expenses of a Consulate in charge of a consular officer of career.

ArtAculoA 7Aº. -A honorary consular officers may be national or foreign, giving the Executive Power, on an equal footing, preference to the former.

ArtAculo 8Aº. -A treatment of foreigners, in addition to the conditions required by the following article, will always be given preference to those who have investments, have resided, have family, interests or property in the Republic.

If there are more than one postulant that meets the conditions indicated in the above, priority will be given to the person who knows the Spanish language. Without prejudice to which knowledge of the Spanish language is required to, at least, a staff member who performs functions in Consular Offices in charge of honorary consular officers.

ArtAculoA 9Aº. -A honorary consular officers shall be appointed by the Executive Branch, taking into consideration the reports prepared by the Head of Mission and the General or Chief Executive Officer or Charge of Secciation. Consular posts that correspond to the jurisdiction that will serve the applicant.

In those paAces where you have a General Consulate, the report prepared by the Head of that office will suffice.

ArtAculoA 10. -A In each country with which the Republic maintains or has the convenience of promoting consular relations, as many Consular Offices as are necessary and with the categories that are estimated More appropriate to the judgment of the Executive Branch.

In addition, there may be General Consulates in the political regions or divisions, which for their size, geographical location, importance of the colony of Uruguayan nationals or commercial significance require an Office of that categora.

ArtAculoA 11. -A Consular Offices in charge of honorary consular officers in all locations that require it to be supported by consular or diplomatic offices in charge of civil servants race.

ArtAculoA 12. -A In all those Embassies of the Republic located in capitals where there are no Consular Offices, a Hierarchical Consular Section will work at the Consulate General.

ArtAculoA 13. -A In any consular district that is in charge of a career CAE or an honorary CAE, they may be designated one or more Vicecolnsules, which will in all cases have the official character of officials. Fee consular.

The Vice-Ns shall only be in the active exercise when they are required to replace the incumbent official from whom they are dependent. Therefore, it is forbidden for them to put shield and other flags on the premises where the Consular Office works, unless, by residing in localities other than the usual residence of the CA-Nsul, although belonging to the same district, exercise permanently its functions with the authorization of the respective LICENSE.

ArtAculoA 14. -A Executive Power will determine consular constituencies by taking into consideration the reports of the Heads of Mission, General and Chiefs of the Heads or Entrates of Consular Section.

ArtAculoA 15. -A As of the enactment of this law, honorary consular officers shall cease in the exercise of their duties when they are 80 years of age.

Without prejudice to the above, the honorary consular officers may at all times, in the judgment of the Executive Branch, for reasonable reasons, be terminated, replaced or extended.

ArtAculoA 16. -A honorary consular officers will receive for sA half of the ordinary rights they collect up to a maximum amount set by the Executive Branch.

honorary consular officers will retain for sA 50% (fifty percent) of the extraordinary rights.

Career consular officers will retain for sA 25% (twenty-five percent) of the extraordinary rights.

The remaining percentage will be accumulated to the collected by the concept of Consular Income. The maximum amount that the consular officers may retain for this term shall be set at five hundred monthly consular weights; this shall exceed the amount of the consular income.

Without prejudice to the foregoing, consular officers may exonerate the collection of the extraordinary rights when, in their judgment, the circumstances warrant it.

ArtAculoA 17. -A career consular officers should appoint Officers from CanclerAa. Honorary consular officers whose occupation does not allow them to attend to the Consular Office in a personal way during the entire mandatory schedule of the public service, should appoint Officers of Cancerlaa. They may also appoint other officials.

Treat of Consular Offices in charge of honorary consular officers, the corresponding remuneration and social charges shall be charged to the officials who perform in the same.

ArtAculoA 18. -A In the event of the death of the General Consul, the consular officer of the locality shall immediately account to the Embassy and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in accordance with the regulations in effect.

ArtAculoA 19. -A General and Heads or Entrates of Consular Sectors are directly dependent on the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Chief of Mission accredited in the country of residence. The CANSUs and Vicecolnsules of the respective General Consul General, and where there is no General Consul, of the Chief or Chargé of Consular Secciary.

The Officers of CanclerAa and officials of the Consular Office are directly dependent on the consular officer who appointed them.

In case of situations not mentioned in the previous numerals, you will be directly dependent on the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

ArtAculoA 20. -A REASONS and Vicecolnsules may be suspended in their respective positions by the General Consul, immediately giving account of such suspension to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on the causes that gave rise to the same. The mentioned State Aa will resolve whether or not there is reason for such suspension.

The General Consul will communicate at the same time, in the same way to the Head of Mission in the paAs of his residence, the suspensions he ordered and the causes that would have motivated them.

ArtAculoA 21. -A Executive Branch may be able to suspend career consular officers in the exercise of their duties. These officials may also be moved from one point to another, retaining their categorical and class, when the Executive Branch deems it necessary or convenient for the best public service.

SerA cause of removal, according to artAculoA 168, numeral A 10 of ArtAculoA 22. -A General and Chiefs or Consular Security-loaded CAs shall perform the functions of the district CAE in the locality of their residence or in the jurisdiction assigned to them, except that the Power Executive resolves otherwise.

ArtAculoA 23. -A career consular officers may not accept employment or foreign government functions, in the paAs of their residence or in others, except as provided for in Article 18 of the href="areuelveref.aspx?DOCUMENTINT, 442/art18/HTM/" title="Text of the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations of 24 April 1963, in which case you should also have the authorization of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Without prejudice to the above, the existing rules on consular cooperation should be kept in mind.

ArtAculoA 24. -A honorary consular officers, once appointed, will not be able to accept, without the consent of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the appointment of honorary CAE or another honorary Status.

ArtAculoA 25. -A Save as otherwise provided by the Executive Branch, consular officers will reside in the locality where the Consular Office is located.

ArtAculoA 26. -A General and the Heads or Entrusals of the Consular Section, when assuming functions, will receive, under duplicate signed inventory, the file and demA of the official who is a This date, one of the copies of which will be sent to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The same formality shall be carried out by the Cones and Vicecolnsules but in triplicate, in order to send the second copy to the Ministry and the third to the Consulate General or Consular Section, as applicable.

ArtAculoA 27. -A consular officers will receive consular rights for the actions they practice under the tariff set by law and in the form that the Executive Branch has, except those expressly exonerated by law or by treaty.

shall be free of charge, free of charge, any certificate or document of migrants and citizens of the Republic of the Republic of the Republic of the Republic of being unable to pay the corresponding emoluments, in accordance with the provisions in force, This will be recorded in the intervention and the respective record.

ArtAculoA 28. -A Within its territorial jurisdiction, consular officers shall perform the functions provided for in the article 5Aº of the A) Provide assistance and assistance to nationals, ensuring their protection and full respect for their rights. It will also promote the link with the compatriots resident in their jurisdiction with the aim of fostering friendly relations with the national community while increasing the existing ties with the host country.

B) Exercise Civil Status Registry Officers, including issuing and subscribing to civil status items for resident stakeholders on the outside.

C) Instrumentation and authorize the public documents indicated in the present literal, subject to all relevant laws, decrees, and (a) the laws of the Member States of the European Parliament and of the Council of the European Parliament and of the Council of the European Parliament and of the Council of the European Parliament and of the Council natural and acceptance or repudiation of inheritances, minutes of declaration and/or verification of facts and certifications.

To the individualization of the licensors will be credited with the official identification documents that the consular officer deems relevant, and In the same way, the statements made by those who are responsible for their legitimacy and veracity will be held.

D) Translate the documents emanating from the receiving State intended to take effect in the Republic, provided they know the respective language. In case of not knowing the language and that in the Republic there is no public translator or language of the language in question, after authorization from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the translation done by a public translator is involved. of your jurisdiction. In the absence of this last one, it will also be able to intervene the one made by an id.

E) Intervening the documents emanating from the receiving State destined to have effects in the Republic, in the cases necessary considering the accession of the Republic to the Hague Convention of 5 October 1961, Suppressing the Demanding of Legalization of Foreign Public Documents.

ArtAculoA 29. -A TrA mitts and performances perfected by electronic communications or computer media between the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and its Diplomatic Missions and Consular Offices in the The term of office shall be valid, effective and evidentiary value governed by the rules in force on the electronic government.

ArtAculoA 30. -A Mission Chiefs will perform the inspection of the General Consulates under their superintendence. The General Secretariat and the Heads of Consular Sections are inspectors of the Consulates who are under their dependence; they must carry out the inspections every two years or when the Administration orders it, informing the Ministry of External relations on the state and functioning of Consular Offices.

If the respective item is unable to cover the costs incurred for that purpose, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs shall be required to reinforce the corresponding item.

ArtAculo 31. Previous laws and regulations that refer to the organization and operation of Consulates are repealed, as are the rules in contradiction with this law.

The matters not provided for in this law shall be governed in accordance with the provisions of the ArtAculoA 32. -A State Ministers will forward to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs any information on their respective portfolios necessary for the proper performance of the functions which, by means of this law, are assign the consular officer.

ArtAculoA 33. -A Executive Power will regulate this law within a maximum of one year from the date of its promulgation.

A A A A A Sala de Sessions de la CA ¡ mara de Reps, en Montevideo, a 9 de september de 2014.

ANABAL PEREYRA,
President.
José Pedro Montero,
Secretary.

FOREIGN MINISTRY

Montevideo, September 18, 2014.

CA-Mplase, acorsese recibo, comunAquese, publáquese e insatirtese en el Registro Nacional de Leias y Decretos, la Ley por la que se aprido la Ley de Organizárido Consular.

JOSA% MUJICA.
LUIS PORTO.