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Well, you have to have the baptize using the Trinitarian formula and actually mean the Trinity when you say it. Mormon baptisms would therefore be invalid since they don’t accept the doctrine of the Trinity but still use the right words.

Also, Vatican 2 didn’t change the rules for Baptism. It only created a more inclusion approach to Protestantism.

Evidence can be found in the 4th canon of the Council of Trent on Baptism:
If any one saith, that the baptism which is even given by heretics in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, with the intention of doing what the Church doth, is not true baptism; let him be anathema.

The cetificate is needed to prove there was an actual Baptism. If a certificate can’t be found, they will likely do a conditional Baptism since you can’t be baptized twice.