Executive Regulation of Law No. For the implementation of the provisions of this regulation, the following terms shall have the corresponding meanings ascribed to them wherever they occur:. Bureau secretaries shall be treated as employees of the fourteenth grade whereas assistant secretaries shall be treated as employees of the thirteenth grade. Their term of service abroad shall end at the expiration of the mission to which they are delegated and the expiration of the period of their selection.
All bureau delegates shall be considered as employees thereof. Their salary and other financial benefits shall be disbursed from the budget of such bureau. In this capacity, he shall perform all duties stipulated by international law and custom, treaties and agreements governing political relations, and rules of courtesy among countries. Consuls shall be appointed in accordance with the provisions of Articles 14 and 15 of the Law and the provisions of the present regulation.
In the absence of the consul or in the event of an impediment to taking office, he shall be replaced by the most senior employee of the consulate. A special register of Libyan citizens residing in the host country shall be set up for every consular mission of the Great Jamahiriya.
Such registration shall be annually renewed during the first three months of the year. Members of general consulates shall assume the following competences in accordance with the Libyan legislation in force and the provisions of international treaties, agreements, rules and conventions, without contravening the legislation and traditions of the country where they hold office:.
Receive, preserve and open testaments if such testaments are official or handwritten and signed by the testator, or if the testament document validates the signature of the testator. The receipt of testaments shall be documented in a report signed by the member of the consular mission, the testator, and two witnesses.
