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or are committed, on or after the day on which this Treaty enters into force.

ARTICLE 25

(1) This Treaty is subject to ratification.
(2) The instruments of ratification shall be exchanged as soon as possible in Vienna.
(3) This Treaty shall enter into force on the ninetieth day after the day on which the instruments of ratification are exchanged.
(4) Either Contracting Party may terminate this Treaty by notice in writing at any time and it shall cease to be in force on the one hundred and eightieth day after the day on which the notice is given.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF the undersigned, being duly authorized thereto by their respective Governments, have signed this Treaty.
DONE in duplicate at Canberra on the twenty-ninth day of March One thousand nine hundred and seventy-three in the English and German languages, each text being equally authentic.

E. G. WHITLAM DR. FRANZ PEIN
For Australia For the Republic of Austria
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                       SCHEDULE 2 Regulation 4

PROTOCOL

between Australia and the Republic of Austria amending the Treaty concerning Extradition done at Canberra on 29 March 1973
Australia and the Republic of Austria
DESIRING to amend the Treaty between the Commonwealth of Australia and the Republic of Austria concerning Extradition, done at Canberra on 29 March 1973,
HAVE AGREED as follows:

ARTICLE 1
The text of Article 1 of the Treaty shall be replaced by the following:

SCHEDULE 2—continued

"ARTICLE 1
Each Contracting Party agrees to extradite to the other, in accordance with the provisions of this Treaty, any persons who are wanted for prosecution or the imposition or enforcement of a sentence in the requesting State for one or more of the offences referred to in Article 3".

ARTICLE 2
The text of Article 3 of the Treaty shall be replaced by the following:

"ARTICLE 3
(1) For the purposes of this Treaty, offences for which extradition may be granted are offences however described which are punishable under the laws of both Contracting Parties by imprisonment or other deprivation of liberty for a maximum period of at least one year or by a more severe penalty. Where the request for extradition relates to a person convicted of such an offence who is wanted for the enforcement of a sentence of imprisonment or other deprivation of liberty, extradition shall be granted only if the period of deprivation of liberty which remains to be served is at least four months, or, in the case of more than one such period, the aggregate of such periods is at least four months.
(2) If extradition is granted for an offence described in paragraph 1 of this Article, extradition may, insofar as the law of the requested State allows,