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SCHEDULE—continued

Article 19
Concurrent requests

1. Where requests are received from two or more States for the extradition of the same person either for the same offence or for different offences, the Requested Party shall determine to which of those States the person is to be extradited and shall notify those States of its decision.

2. In determining to which State a person is to be extradited, the Requested Party shall have regard to all the relevant circumstances and, in particular, to:

    (a) if the requests relate to different offences, the relative seriousness of those offences;

    (b) the time and place of commission of each offence;

    (c) the respective dates of the requests;

    (d) the nationality of the person sought; and

    (e) the ordinary place of residence of the person.

    Article 20
    Preservation of multilateral obligations

Nothing in this Treaty affects any obligations which have been, or shall in the future be, assumed by the Contracting Parties under any multilateral Convention.

    Article 21
    Entry into force and termination

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

SCHEDULE—continued

2. This Treaty shall apply to any offence specified in Article 2 whether it was committed before or after its entry into force.

3. Either Contracting Party may terminate this Treaty at any time by giving six months' written notice to the other Contracting Party.

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

 DONE in duplicate, in the English and Portuguese languages, each text being equally authentic, at Canberra on the twenty-second day of August 1994.

FOR AUSTRALIA:                FOR THE FEDERATIVE
                              REPUBLIC OF BRAZIL:

GARETH EVANS                  CELSO LUIZ NUNES AMORIM
Minister for Foreign Affairs  Minister for External Relations

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NOTE

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 5 August 1996.