ABSTRACT
Provisions of Vienna Convention having the force of law in the United Kingdom
ARTICLE 1 1. For the purposes of the present Convention, the following expressions shall have the meanings hereunder assigned to them: (a) ‘consular post’ means any consulate-general, consulate, vice-consulate or
consular agency; (b) ‘consular district’ means the area assigned to a consular post for the
exercise of consular functions; (c) ‘head of consular post’ means the person charged with the duty of acting in
that capacity; (d) ‘consular officer’ means any person, including the head of a consular post,
entrusted in that capacity with the exercise of consular functions; (e) ‘consular employee’ means any person employed in the administrative or
technical service of a consular post; (f) ‘member of the service staff’ means any person employed in the domestic
service of a consular post; (g) ‘member of the consular post’ means consular officers, consular
employees and members of the service staff; (h) ‘members of the consular staff’ means consular officers, other than the
head of a consular post, consular employees and members of the service staff;
(i) member of the private staff’ means a person who is employed exclusively in the private service of a member of the consular post;
(j) ‘consular premises’ means the buildings or parts of buildings and the land ancillary thereto, irrespective of ownership, used exclusively for the purposes of the consular post;
(k) consular archives’ includes all the papers, documents, correspondence, books, films, tapes and registers of the consular post, together with the ciphers and codes, the card-indexers and any article of furniture intended for their protection or safekeeping.
