(1) Any document delivered to the registrar, pursuant to Article 10 of the Council Regulation, by a grouping registered outside the State shall be certified, in the country in which the grouping is registered, as follows:
(a) certified as a true copy by an official of the registry to whose custody the original is committed, or
(b) certified as a true copy in accordance with the provisions of the Companies (Forms) Order, 1964.
(2) Any such document shall, if it is not expressed in the Irish or English language, be accompanied by a certified translation thereof.
(3) In this Regulation "certified translation" means a translation certified to be a correct translation by: (a) if made outside the State, an Irish diplomatic or consular officer, or any person whom any such officer certifies to be known to him as competent to translate it into the Irish or English language; (b) if made within the State, a notary public, solicitor or barrister.