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to be extradited shall request the other Contracting State to permit the transit of that person through its territory.

2. Upon receipt of such a request the Requested Contracting State shall grant the request unless it is satisfied that there are reasonable grounds for refusing to do so.

3. Permission for the transit of a person shall, subject to the law of the Requested Contracting State, include permission for the person to be held in custody during transit.

4. Where a person is being held in custody pursuant to paragraph 3 of this Article, the Contracting State in whose territory the person is being held may direct that the person be released if transportation is not continued within a reasonable time.

5. The Contracting State to which the person is being extradited shall reimburse the other Contracting State for any expense incurred by that other Contracting State in connection with the transit.

       Article 15
       Expenses

1. The Requested State shall make all necessary arrangements for and meet the cost of any proceedings arising out of a request for extradition and shall otherwise represent the interest of the Requesting State.

2. The Requested State shall bear the expenses incurred in its territory in the arrest and detention of the person whose extradition is sought until that person is surrendered to a person nominated by the Requesting State.

3. The Requesting State shall bear the expenses incurred in conveying the person from the territory of the Requested State.

       Article 16
       Entry into force, application and termination

1. This Treaty shall enter into force thirty days after the date on which the Contracting States have notified each other in writing that their respective requirements for the entry into force of this Treaty have been complied with.

2. Either Contracting State 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 notice is given.

3. This Treaty shall apply to requests for extradition made after its entry into force regardless of the date of commission of an offence, the date of conviction for an offence or the date on which a sentence was imposed for an offence set out in a request.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF the undersigned, being duly authorized thereto by their respective Governments, have signed this Treaty.

DONE at Canberra on the ninth day of December, One thousand, nine hundred and ninety-eight.

FOR AUSTRALIA: FOR THE REPUBLIC OF
 SOUTH AFRICA:

Amanda Vanstone A. Erwin
  Note

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 29 March 2001.