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with the document authorising the extradition or copy thereof.

2. Upon receipt of such a request the Requested Contracting State shall permit the transit, unless it is satisfied that there are reasonable grounds for refusing to do so, or reasons of public order that are opposed to such transit.

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 the provisions of paragraph 3 of this Article, the Contracting State in whose territory the person is being held may direct that the person be released if his transportation is not continued within 20 days or within such further period as is considered reasonable by that Contracting State in all the circumstances of the case.

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 the arrest of the person whose extradition is sought, and in the maintenance in custody of the person until he 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 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. This Treaty shall apply to any request made after its entry into force, whatever the date of the commission of the offence.

3. On the entry into force of this Treaty, the Treaty between Great Britain and Paraguay for the Extradition of Criminals done at Asunción on 12 September 1908, shall cease to be in force between Australia and Paraguay.

4. Either Contracting State may terminate this Treaty by notifying the other in writing. Such termination shall enter into force six months after the day on which the other Contracting State receives such notice.

DONE at Buenos Aires on the Thirtieth day of December, One Thousand Nine Hundred and Ninety-Seven in English and Spanish, each text being equally authentic.

FOR AUSTRALIA: FOR THE REPUBLIC OF               PARAGUAY:

W. Weemaes     Oscar Facundo