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PRIVATE INTERNATIONAL LAW 615
11. "consular officer": any person, including the head of a
consular post, entrusted as such with the exercise of
consular functions;
12/ u consular employee": any person employed in the
administrative or technical service of a consular post;
13. "member of the service staff": any person employed in
the domestic service of a consular post;
14."members of the consular post": consular officers,
consular employees and members of the service staff;
15." members of the consular staff'': consular officers, other
than the head of a consular post, consular employees
and members of the service staff.
90 The premises of every mission, its furnishings, all
property thereon, and its means of transport, are exempt from
seizure and execution.
All papers, correspondence and property of the diplomatic
agent, in his private residence, are exempt from seizure
or execution, subject to Article 93.
91 Diplomatic agents are immune from civil jurisdiction
except as regards:
l.real actions relating to private immoveable property
situated in Quebec, unless he holds it on behalf of the
sending State for the purposes of the mission;
2. actions relating to succession in which the diplomatic
agent is involved as executor, administrator, heir or
legatee, as a private person and not on behalf of the
sending State; or
3. actions relating to a professional or commercial activity
exercised by the diplomatic agent outside his official
functions.
92 Diplomatic agents are not obliged to give evidence as
witnesses.