Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F1997B01987:body:0:p7
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State—it purports to be certified by a Judge or Magistrate in, or by a competent officer of a court of, that State to have been, or to be a true copy of a document that has been, so received in evidence; or
     (d) in the case of a document that certifies a conviction, or a sentence and the extent to which the sentence has not been carried out it purports to be certified by a Judge, Magistrate or other competent authority of the requesting State,
and the document purports to be authenticated by the oath of a witness or to be sealed with the official seal of a Minister of State of the requesting State.

ARTICLE XIV

1. In case of urgency the requesting State may apply for the provisional arrest of a person pending the making of a request for the extradition of the person.
2. The application shall be accompanied by
    (a) a statement of intention to request the extradition of the person:
    (b) a statement that a warrant for the arrest of the person for the alleged commission of an offence for which his extradition may be requested under this Treaty has been issued by a competent authority in the requesting State or that the person has been convicted of such an offence in the requesting State, as the case may be: and
    (c) such further information, if any as would, according to the law in force in the part of the territory of the requested State in which the person is, or is suspected of being, justify the arrest of the person without the issue of a warrant, or the issue of a warrant for the arrest of the person, if the act or omission constituting the offence had taken place in that part of the State.
3. On receipt of such an application, the Government of the requested State shall take the necessary steps to secure the arrest of the person in respect of whom the application is made.
4. If a request for the extradition of a person who has been arrested upon such an application is not made in accordance with this Treaty within a reasonable time after the arrest of the person, the person may be set at liberty, but nothing in this paragraph prevents the institution of further proceedings or rearrest for the purpose of securing the extradition of the person if such a request is subsequently made.

SCHEDULE—continued

ARTICLE XV

1. A person shall not be extradited before the expiration of fifteen days after the date of the final court order directing that he be held in custody to await extradition.
2. If a person who has been ordered by