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requested State may request the production of the documents mentioned in article 6.

Article 15
Transit
1. Where a person is to be extradited to one of the two States from a third State through the territory of the other, the government of the State to which the person is to be extradited shall request the government of the State of transit to permit the transit of that person through its territory.

2. Transit shall be permitted only if the offences in respect of which the person is being surrendered are offences of a kind which would be extraditable under this Treaty.

3. Permission for the transit of a person shall, subject to the law of the requested 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 government of the State in whose territory the person is being held may direct that the person be released if the person's transportation is not continued within a reasonable time.
SCHEDULE—continued
5. Where air transport is used the following provisions shall apply:
   a) when no landing is scheduled, the government of the requesting State shall advise the government of the State whose territory is to be overflown and shall certify that the documents referred to in article 6 exist. In the case of an unscheduled landing, this advice shall have the effect of a request for provisional arrest pursuant to article 9 and the government of the requesting State shall forward a normal transit request;
   b) When a landing is scheduled, the government of the requesting State shall forward a normal transit request.

Article 16
Expenses
Except for the costs of conveying the person extradited and those occasioned by transit, which shall be borne by the government of the requesting State, expenses resulting from the extradition shall be borne by the government of the State in whose territory they were incurred.

Article 17
Entry into force and termination
1. This Treaty shall enter into force thirty days after each contracting Party has notified the other that the constitutional requirements for the entry into force of this Treaty have been complied with.

2. Either contracting Party may terminate this Treaty at any time by forwarding through the diplomatic channel written notice of termination and this Treaty shall cease to be in force on the one hundred and eightieth day after the day on which notice is given.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF the undersigned, being duly authorised thereto, have signed this Treaty.
DONE at MONACO in duplicate on the nineteenth day of October nineteen hundred and eighty-eight, in English and French, both texts being equally