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

Article 15
Expenses

1. Expenses incurred in the territory of the Requested Party by reason of extradition shall be borne by that Party.

2. The Requesting Party shall bear the expenses incurred in conveying the person from the territory of the Requested Party.

Article 16
Multilateral obligations

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

Article 17
Entry into force and termination

1. This 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.

2. On the date of this Treaty entering into force, the Treaty between Great Britain and the Republic of Poland for the Mutual Extradition of Fugitive Criminals done at Warsaw on 11 January 1932 shall cease to be in force between Australia and the Republic of Poland.

3. Extradition requests submitted after the entry into force of this Treaty shall be governed by this Treaty whatever the date of the commission of the offence for which extradition is requested.

4. Either Contracting Party 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 the notice is delivered.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF the undersigned, being duly authorised thereto, have signed this Treaty.

DONE at Canberra on the third day of June, one thousand, nine hundred and ninety-eight in the English and Polish languages, each text being equally authentic.

FOR AUSTRALIA:   FOR THE REPUBLIC OF POLAND:

Amanda Vanstone  Maciej Kozlowski

  Note

1. Made by the Governor-General on 9 September 1999, and notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 16 September 1999.