The Saeima has adopted and the President promulgated the following laws: For the Republic of Latvia and the Australian Treaty on extradition article 1. 14 July 2000 in Riga and Latvia signed agreement on extradition of Australia (hereinafter contract) with this law is adopted and approved. 2. article. The law shall enter into force on the date of its promulgation. With the law put a contract in English and its translation into Latvian language. 3. article. The agreement shall enter into force for the period specified in article 16, and in order, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs shall notify the newspaper "journal". The Parliament adopted the law on 20 February 2003. State v. President Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga in Riga, March 7, 2003 the TREATY ON EXTRADITION BETWEEN the REPUBLIC OF Latvia AND Australia-the REPUBLIC OF Latvia, hereinafter referred to AND Australia as "Contracting States" (MENU RNGTON LINE4) to make more effective the co-operation of the two countries in the suppression of crime by concluding a treaty on extradition, have AGREED as follows: article 1 Obligation to extradit Each Contracting State agree to extradit it the other , in accordanc with the provision of this Treaty, any person who is wanted for prosecution or by the imposition or enforcement of a line in the Requesting State for an extraditabl of the offenc. Article 2-1 of the offenc Extraditabl. For the purpose of this Treaty, the extraditabl of the offenc offenc, however described, which at the time of the request for extradition with the punishabl is under the law of both Contracting States by imprisonmen for maximum period of (a) at least one year or by a more sever a penalty. Where the request for extradition of a person convicted of relate to such an offenc who is wanted for the enforcement of a line of imprisonmen extradition shall be granted, only if a period of at least six months of such penalty remains to be served. 2. For the purpose of this article in determining an offenc whethers is an offenc against the law of both Contracting States: (a) it shall not matter whethers the law of the Contracting States place the acts or omission constituting of the offenc is within the same category of the offenc or denominat offenc by the same terminology; (b) the totality of the acts or omission of the alleged against the person whose extradition is sought shall be taken into account and it shall not matter whethers, under the law of the Contracting States, the mobility scooters to the element of the offenc is differ. 3. Where a person sought extradition of ISA for an offenc against a law relating to taxation, customs duties, foreign exchange control or other revenue matters extradition may not be refused on the ground that the law of the Requested State does not impost is the same kind of tax or duty or does not contain a tax, duty, customs, or exchange regulation of the same kind as the law of the Requesting State. 4. Where the offenc» has been committed outside the territory of the Requesting State extradition shall be granted where the law of the Requested State provides for the punishment of an offenc is committed outside its territory in similar circumstanc. Where the law of the Requested State does not so provide the Requested State may, in its discretion, grant extradition. Article 3 Exception to extradition Extradition shall not be granted 1 in any of the following: (a) if circumstanc the offenc for which extradition is sought is a political offenc. Reference to a political authority shall not include offenc the taking or attempting taking of the life of a Head of State or a member of that person's family nor an offenc against the law relating to genocid; (b) if there are substantial grounds for believing that a request for extradition for an ordinary criminal offenc» has been made for the purpose of prosecuting or punishing a person on account of that person's race, religion, nationality or political opinion or that that person's position may be prejudiced for any of those reasons; (c) if the offenc for which extradition is sought is an offenc is under military law, which is not an offenc is under the ordinary criminal law of the Contracting States; (d) if final judgement has been passed in the Requested State or in a third State in respect of the offenc for which the person's extradition is sought; (e) if the person whose extradition is sought has, according to the law of either Contracting State, become immun from prosecution or punishment by reason of lapse of time; or (f) if the person, on being extradited to the Requesting State, would be liabl to be tried or sentenced in that State by a court or tribunal; (i) that has been specially established for the purpose of trying the party's case; or (ii) that is only occasionally, or, under exceptional, authorised to try circumstanc persons accused of the offenc for which extradition is sought. 2. Extradition may be refused in any of the following: (a) circumstanc if the person whose extradition is sought is a national of the Requested State. Nationals of the Republic of Latvia shall be taken to include citizens of the Republic of Latvia and the person who are the subjects of the Law on the status of former USSR citizens who are not citizens of Latvia or of any other State. Where the Requested State to extradit refus a national of that State it shall, if the other State so requests and the law of the Requested State allow, submit the case to the competent authorities in order that the proceedings for the prosecution of the person in respect of all or any of the offenc for which extradition has been sought may be taken; (b) if the competent authorities of the Requested a State decided to refrain from prosecuting to have the person for the offenc in respect of which extradition is sought; (c) if the offenc with which the accused or convicted person is sought, or any others for which that person offenc may be detained or tried in accordanc with this Treaty, to the death penalty under carr the law of the Requesting State unless that State that the death of undertak penalty will not be imposed or, if imposed, will not be carried out; (d) if the offenc for which extradition is sought is regarded under the law of the Requested State as having been committed in whole or in part within that State; (e) if a prosecution in respect of the offenc for which extradition is sought is pending in the Requested State against the person whose extradition is sought; (f) if the offenc for which extradition is sought is an offenc to a punishment in which carr of the kind referred to in article 7 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on 16 December 1966; or (g) if the Requested State, while also taking into account the nature of the offenc and the interests of the Requesting State, consider that, in the case of circumstanc of the, including the age, health or other personal circumstanc of persons whose extradition the is sought, the extradition of the person would be unjus, oppressiv, incompatibl with humanitarian considerations or too sever a punishment. 3. This article shall not be affec any obligation for which have been or in the future shall be assumed by the Contracting States under any multilaterals Convention. Article 4 Postponemen of extradition the Requested State may postpon the extradition of a person in order to proceed against the person, or so that that person may serve a line, for an offenc other than an offenc is constituted by an act or omission for which extradition is sought. In such case the Requested State shall advise the Requesting State accordingly. Article 6 Extradition procedures and required documents 1. A request for extradition shall be made in writing and shall be communicated through the diplomatic channel to the General Prosecutor's Office of the Republic of Latvia or the Attorney-General's Department of Australia, as the case may be. All documents submitted in support of a request for extradition shall be authenticated in accordanc with article 6.2. The request for extradition shall be accompanied: (a) if the person is accused of an offenc — by (a) a warrant for the arrest or a copy of the warrant for arrest of the person, (a) a statement of each offenc for which extradition is sought and a statement of the acts or omission of which the alleged against the person in respect of each offenc; (b) if a person has been convicted in his absence of an offenc — by a judicial or other document, or a copy thereof, authorising the apprehensions of the person, (a) a statement of each offenc for which extradition is sought and a statement of the acts or omission of which the alleged against the person in respect of each offenc; (c) if the person has been convicted of an offenc is otherwise than in that person's absence, by such documents as provide evidence of the convictions and the line is imposed, the fact that the line is immediately enforceabl, and the exten to which the line has not been carried out; (d) if the person has been convicted of an offenc is otherwise than in the person's absence from the line but has been imposed, by such documents as provide evidence of the convictions and a statement affirming that it is intended to impost a line; (e) in all cases by the text of the relevant provision of the law, if any, creating the offenc or a statement of the relevant law to the axes of any law relating to offenc including the limitations of the proceedings, as the case may be, and in either case, a statement of the punishment that can be imposed for the offenc; and (f) in all cases by as accurate a description as possible of the person claimed together with any other information which may help to establish the person's identity and nationality. 3. To the exten the permitted by the law of the Requested State, extradition may be granted of (a) person to the provision of pursuan of this Treaty notwithstanding that the requirements of Paragraph 1 and Paragraph 2 of this The article have not been complied with provided that the person claimed for extradition the United order consent being made. 4. A Contracting State which send it to the other Contracting State a document in accordanc with this Treaty that is not in the language of the other Contracting State shall, if requested, provide a translation of the document into the language of the other Contracting State. Article 6 Authentication of supporting documents 1 A document that, in accordanc with article 5, a request for extradition to accompan shall be admitted in evidence, if authenticated, in any extradition proceedings in the territory of the Requested State. 2. (A) the document is authenticated for the purpose of this Treaty: (a) if it purport to be signed or certified by a judge, magistrate or other officer, including a prosecutor, in the or of the Requesting State; and (b) it purport to be authenticated by the oaths or affirmations of a witness or to be sealed with: (i) an official or public seal of the Requesting State or of a minister of State, or of a Department or officer of the Government of the Requesting State; or (ii) in the case of a document emanating from the Republic of Latvia, the seal of the General Prosecutor's Office of the Republic of Latvia. Article 7 Additional information 1. If the Requested State consider that the information furnished in support of a request for extradition is not sufficient in accordanc with this Treaty to enable extradition to be granted that State may request that additional information be furnished within such time as it is specifi c. 2. If the person whose extradition is sought is under arrest and the additional information furnished is not sufficient in accordanc with this Treaty or is not received within the time specified, the person may be released from custody. Such release shall not preclud the Requesting State from making a fresh request for the extradition of the person. 3. Where the person is released from custody in accordanc with paragraph 2 of this article, the Requested State shall notify the Requesting State as soon as practicabl. Article 8 Provisional arrest 1. In case of urgency a Contracting State may apply by means of the facilities of the International Criminal Police Organisation (INTERPOL) or otherwise for the provisional arrest of the person sought pending the presentation of the request for extradition through the diplomatic channel. The application may be transmitted by post or telegraph or by any other means affording a record in writing. 2. The application shall contain (a) a description of the person sought, a statement that extradition is to be requested through the diplomatic channel, a statement of the existenc of one of the documents mentioned in paragraph 2 of article 5 the apprehensions of the authorising person, (a) a statement of the punishment that can be, or has been imposed for the offenc and , if requested by the Requested State, (a) a concise statement of the omission of the alleged acts or the offenc constitut. 3. On receipt of such an application, the Requested State shall take the cessary steps to secure the arrest of the person claimed and the Requesting State shall be promptly notified of the result of its request. 4. A person arrested upon such an application may be set at liberty upon the expiration of 45 days from the date of that person's arrest if a request for extradition, supported by the documents specified in article 5, has not been received. 5. The release of a person to the paragraph 4 of pursuan this article shall not prevent the institution of proceedings with a view to extraditing the person sought if the request is subsequently received. Article 9 Conflicting requests 1. Where requests are received from two or more States for the extradition of the same person, the Requested State shall to determin which of those States the person is to be extradited and shall notify the Requesting State of its decision. 2. In determining to which State a person is to be extradited, the Requested State shall have regard to all relevant and, in particular, circumstanc it: (a) if the requests relate to different relative of the offenc-the seriousnes of the offenc; (b) the time and place of commission of each offenc; (c) the data of the respectiv requests; (d) the nationality of the person; and (e) the ordinary place of residence of the person. Article 10 Surrender 1. The Requested State shall, as soon as a decision on the request for extradition has been made, communicate that decision to the Requesting State through the diplomatic channel. 2. Where extradition is granted, the Requested State shall surrender the person from a point of departure in its territory convenient to the Requesting State. 3. The Requesting State shall remove the person from the territory of the Requested State within such reasonable period as the Requested State specifi c and, if the person is not removed within that period, the Requested State may extradit refus to that person for the same offenc. 4. If it's beyond control circumstanc prevent a Contracting State from surrendering or removing the person to be extradited it shall notify the other Contracting State. The two Contracting States shall mutually decide upon a new date of surrender, and the provision of paragraph 3 of this article shall apply. Article 11 Surrender of property to 1 To the exten permitted under the law of the Requested State and subject to the rights of third parties, which shall be duly respected, all property found in the Requested State that has been acquired as a result of the offenc or may be required as evidence shall, if the Requesting State so requests, be surrendered if extradition is granted. 2. Subject to paragraph 1 of this article, the abovementioned property shall, if the Requesting State so requests, be surrendered to the Requesting State even if the extradition cannot be carried out. 3. Where the law of the Requested State or the rights of third parties so require, any articles so surrendered shall be returned to the Requested State free of charge if that State so requests. Article 12 rule of speciality 1. Subject to paragraph 3 of this article, (a) a person extradited under this Treaty shall not be detained or tried, or be subjected to any other restriction of his personal liberty, in the territory of the Requesting State for any committed before his extradition the offenc other than: (a) an offenc for which extradition was granted or any other extraditabl of which the offenc of person could be convicted upon proof of the facts upon which the request for extradition was based, provided that that does not carry the offenc a penalty which is more sever than that which could be imposed for the offenc for which extradition was sought; or (b) any other extraditabl in respect of the offenc which the Requested State consent. 2. A request for the consent of the Requested State under this article shall be accompanied by the documents mentioned in article 5 Paragraph 1 3 of this article does not apply if the person has had an opportunity to leave the Requesting State and has not done so within 45 days of final discharge in respect of the offenc for which that person was extradited or if the person has returned to the territory of the Requesting State after leaving the article 13 to Surrender it. "a third State 1. Where a person has been surrendered to the Requesting State by the Requested State, the first-mentioned State shall not surrender that person to any third State for an offenc is committed before that person's surrender unless: (a) the Requested State consent to surrender it at that; or (b) the person has had an opportunity to leave the Requesting State and has not done so within 45 days of final discharge in respect of the offenc for which that person was surrendered by the Requested State or has returned to the territory of the Requesting State after leaving it 2. Before acceding to a request to sub-paragraph pursuan (1) (a) of this article , the Requested State may request the production of the documents mentioned in article 5 article 14 transit 1. Where a person is to be extradited to a Contracting State from a third State through the territory of the other Contracting State, the Contracting State to which the person is to be extradited shall request the other Contracting State to permit the transit of the person through its territory. 2. Upon receipt of such a request, the Requested Contracting State shall grant the request unless it is satisfied that 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 State, include permissions for the person to be held in custody during transit. 4. Where a person is being held in custody to the paragraph 3 of pursuan this article, the Contracting State 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 State to which the person is being extradited shall reimburs the others Contracting State for any expense incurred by that other Contracting State in connection with the transit. Article 15 Expense 1. The Requested State shall make all arrangements for cessary and not meet the cost of any proceedings arising out of a request for extradition and shall otherwise represen the interest of the Requesting State. 2. The Requested State shall bear the expense incurred in it of the territory in the arrest and detention of the person whose extradition is sought until that person is surrendered to a person nominated by the Requesting State. 3. The Requesting State shall bear the expense incurred in conveying the person originating from the territory of the Requested State. Article 16 Entry into force and termination 1. This Treaty shall enter into force on the thirtieth day after the receipt of the last notification by which the Contracting States have notified each other in writing that their respectiv of requirements for the entry into force of this Treaty have been complied with. 2. On the entry into force of this Treaty, the Treaty between the Latvian Republic and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland for the mutual extradition of fugitive criminal, done at Riga on 16 July 1924, shall cease to be in force between the Republic of Latvia and Australia. 3. Requests for extradition made after this Treaty has entered into force may be granted to the pursuan of this Treaty provision irrespectiv of the offenc whethers in relations to which extradition is sought was committed before or after the entry into force of this Treaty. 4. This Treaty may be amended by agreement in writing between the Contracting States. Any such agreement shall enter into force in accordanc with the procedure set out in paragraph 1 of this article. 5. Either Contracting State may terminate this Treaty by notice in writing at any time and it shall cease to be in force one hundred and eightieth the one day after the day on which notice is given. In WITNESS WHEREOF the undersigned, being duly authorised by their Governments of the respectiv theret, have signed this Treaty. Done at Riga on July 14, 2000, in two original cop out in the English language.

On behalf of the Republic of Latvia On behalf of Ingrid women's Labuck Minister of Justice, Ambassador Stephen Brady of Australia and the Republic of Latvia to the Australian Treaty on extradition and Australia Republic of Latvia (hereinafter the Contracting States), desiring to make more effective cooperation between the two countries in combating crime, extradition agreement, have agreed as follows: article 1 the extradition of the Contracting States shall agree on the that, in accordance with the provisions of this agreement will be issued by the other Contracting State any person requesting State are searched for litigation or criminal prosecution punishment due to the execution of a criminal offence for which the extradition is provided for. Article 2 a criminal offence for which the extradition is provided for in this agreement, 1 of the offences for which extradition is provided for, is a criminal offence for which the extradition when asked, under both the laws of the Contracting States the penalty is imprisonment for at least one year or a more severe penalty. If the request for extradition relates to a person who is convicted of such an offence and being searched for a custodial sentence, extradition shall be granted only if the remaining time of this sentence of at least six months. 2. for the purposes of this article, in determining whether an offence is an offence under the laws of both Contracting States: a) is irrelevant, or the laws of the Contracting States in the relevant act or omission, which is a criminal offence to belong to the same category of criminal offences, as well as whether the crime is defined, using the same terminology; b) takes into account the totality of the acts or omissions on which the accused person is requested to issue, and it is immaterial whether, in accordance with the laws of the Contracting States where the elements differ in the composition. 3. If the person is requested to issue a criminal tax, customs duties, foreign exchange control or other market with revenue related field, then may not relate to conduct the extradition on the grounds that the law of the requested State does not provide the same taxes or duties, or that its laws are not the norm that regulates the payment of taxes, duties, customs or foreign exchange markets, or whether they are analogue of the requesting State the rules laid down by law. 4. If a criminal offence has been committed outside the territory of the requesting State, extradition shall be granted if the law of the requested State provide for the punishment of an offence which is committed outside its territory in similar circumstances. If the law of the requested State do not provide for it, the requested State may take issue at their discretion. Article 3 exclusions 1. extradition may not be carried out if there is any of the following circumstances: (a)) the offence for which extradition is requested is a political. For a political offence is not considered to be not a head of State or members of the family of this person killing or attempted killing, not genocide; (b)) are sufficient grounds to believe that the extradition is requested for the ordinary criminal offence prosecuted or punished for the person in the race, religion, nationality or political opinion, or that that person's position may be detrimental to any of the above reasons; (c)), which is the offence the extradition is requested a criminal offence only in the military area, but is not a criminal offence in accordance with the Contracting States the general criminal law provisions; (d)) to the requested State or in a third country has given a final judgment for the criminal offence for which the person is requested to issue; e) persons whose requests to issue, prosecution or punishment under any law of a Contracting State is not possible due to the Statute of limitations; or (f)), the person concerned by the request of extradition requesting State could order her to be tried or punished in this country: (i) a court or Tribunal) specifically created for this person's trial; or (ii)) which is authorised only in specific cases or circumstances, the jurisdiction over persons accused of criminal offences for which extradition is requested. 2. extradition may refuse to perform any of the following, if there are circumstances specified: (a) the person requested by the) issue is the requested State. For the citizens of the Republic of Latvia considers the Republic of Latvia citizens and persons covered by the law on the status of former USSR citizens who are not Latvian or other nationality ". Where the requested State refuses to extradite its own citizen, then — at the request of the other Contracting State and if the requested State laws allow it, the requested State shall refer the matter to the competent authorities for the prosecution of the person concerned in respect of all the offences for which extradition is requested, or any of them; (b)) requested the competent national authorities have decided not to initiate a prosecution of the person in connection with a criminal offence for which extradition is requested; (c)) for the criminal offence of which the accused or convicted for what the person in question, which is asked to issue, or for any other criminal offence of which that person may arrest or prosecution under this agreement, the laws of the requesting State is for the death penalty, except in the case when this country undertakes not to impose the death penalty or, if the death penalty sentence — not to execute it; (d)) the offence for which extradition is requested, in accordance with the laws of the requested State is considered fully or partially carried out in the territory of that country; e) requested State prosecution for personal offences for which extradition is requested; f) the offence for which extradition is sought is an offence for which the penalty provided for as the United Nations General Assembly on 16 December 1966, adopted in the International Covenant on Civil and political rights article 7; or (g)) requested State, taking into account the nature of the crime and the applicant's national interest, it is considered that, in accordance with the circumstances of the case, including the person asked to issue, age, State of health or other personal circumstances of the nature of this issue, the person would be unfair, cruel, according to the humanitarian considerations or that person might be too harsh a punishment. 3. This article shall not affect any obligations which the Contracting States have undertaken or will undertake in the future under any multilateral Convention. Article 4 suspension of Extradition the requested State may postpone the extradition of the person to perform procedural actions relating to that person or that person could endure the punishment for any criminal offence that is not caused by an act or an omission of a criminal offence for which the extradition requests. In such a case, the requested State shall inform the requesting State. Article 5 the procedure and the required documents 1. The request for extradition must be made in writing and with the diplomatic service must be served on the Attorney General's Office of the Republic of Latvia or the Australian Attorney General's Office. All documents submitted by the additional extradition request must be authentic within the meaning of article 6. 2. the request for extradition must be accompanied by: (a) if the person is accused) in a criminal offence, appropriate for this person's arrest or a copy of such document, a statement of all the offences for which extradition and asked each of the crime — in the context of actions or inaction in which the person charged; (b) if the person is its absence) is convicted of a criminal offence, the Court or other document, or a copy of the document that authorizes the arrest this person and each criminal offence in respect of the activities or omissions of the person charged; c) If a person other than its absence, is convicted of a criminal offence — documents certifying the conviction, set fines, the fact that the penalty is to be applied immediately, and the part of the sentence has not yet been served; d) If a person other than in its absence, is convicted of a criminal offence, but punishment is not specified in the document certifying the conviction, and a statement of intent to impose the penalty; e) in all cases, the text of the law, if such rules are, which defines the criminal offence, or the statement of the law relating to the criminal offence, including their provisions on the criminal liability of the statutory limitation period, if any, and, in both cases, a notice of penalty, which can be determined for a given criminal offence; and (f)) in all cases — as precise as possible a description of the person who requested the issuance, together with any other information which may help identify this person's identity and citizenship. 3. According to the requested State law allowed extradition in accordance with the terms of this agreement may be made by way of derogation from paragraph 1 and in paragraph 2 of the proposed requirements, provided that the person sought consents to extradition issue, the order of application. 4. a Contracting State in accordance with this contract shall be sent to the other Contracting State that is not a document of this language of the other Contracting State, upon request, provide a translation of the documents of the other national language. Article 6 additional document authenticity 1. Documents under article 5 adds extradition request if they are authentic, the territory of the requested State can be used as evidence in any proceedings related to the issue. 2. For the purposes of the present agreement, the document is authentic, if: (a) it is signed or confirmed) a judge, magistrate or other officer of the requesting State, including Prosecutor; and (b)) it is certified on oath or affirmation the inscription, or stamped with: i) the requesting State official or public seal of the requesting State or the Minister or Government official stamp; or ii) with the General Prosecutor's Office of the Republic of Latvia to the seal, if the documents submitted to the Republic of Latvia. Article 7 additional information 1. If the requested State considers that the information provided with the request for extradition, in accordance with this agreement is not sufficient to allow the extradition, then that country may be asked to provide the additional information within the time limit which it shall determine. 2. If the person who requested the issuance, on remand, and the additional information provided in accordance with the provisions of this Treaty are not enough or it is not received within the prescribed time limit, the person may be released from custody. This release shall not preclude the requesting country to submit a new request for the extradition of this person. 3. If the person is released from custody in accordance with paragraph 2, the requested State as soon as possible, inform the requesting State. Article 8 temporary custody 1. Emergency Contracting State through the international criminal police organisation (INTERPOL) or other means may, at the request of extradition for submission to the diplomatic service, ask for time to arrest the person who asked. Such a request can be made by post or telegraph or any other means which provides a written form. 2. The request for provisional arrest shall include a description of the person you are looking for a statement that extradition will be sought with the diplomatic service, a statement that exists in any of the article 5, paragraph 2 of the documents authorising arrest this person, a statement of the possible fines, which can be determined or prescribed for the criminal offence concerned, and — at the request of the requested State: a short presentation about the activities or omissions of the that make up the composition. 3. where such a request is received, the requested State shall take the necessary measures to ensure that the wanted person's provisional arrest request, and shall promptly notify the requesting State of the results of the request. 4. A Person who at the time of the arrest, on the basis of such a request, may be released when 45 days have elapsed from the date of this person's arrest, if the extradition request has been received along with the document referred to in article 5. 5. the release of the Person in accordance with paragraph 4 of this article shall not preclude the procedural acts with the intent to issue the person, if the request is received after such release. Article 9 Competing requests 1. If two or more countries have received requests for one and the same person, the requested State shall determine to which of those States the person is to be extradited and shall notify its decision to the requesting countries. 2. in determining to which State a person is to be extradited, the requested State shall take into account all relevant circumstances, in particular: (a) if the requests relate to) a variety of criminal offences, the relative seriousness of the offences; b) each to the Commission of a criminal offence, the time and place; (c) the date of the request); (d) the person's nationality); and (e)), the normal residence of a person. 10. Article 1 of the Transfer as soon as the request for extradition is decided upon, the requested State with diplomatic service shall communicate this decision to the requesting State. 2. If the requested State agrees to carry out the extradition, it shall refer to the person concerned, which may leave the territory of the requested State and which is convenient to the requesting State. 3. The requesting State shall take over the person from the requested State to the territory of a reasonable period, to be determined by the requested State, and, if the person is not taken within that period, the requested State may refuse to extradite that person for the criminal offence. 4. where a Contracting State does not depend on the reason can not pass or take the person to be issued, it shall inform the other Contracting State. The two Contracting States shall decide on the new date of the transfer, and to the following cases covered by paragraph 3 of this article. Article 11 transfer of property (1) at the request of the requesting State, if such a request is issued, the consent of all the stuff found in the requested State and which is obtained as a result of a crime, or which may be required as evidence, shall be forwarded to the requesting State, if it is not contrary to the laws of that country, and taking into account the rights of third parties which are duly followed. 2. At the request of the requesting State, at the request of the property referred to above, pursuant to paragraph 1, shall be forwarded to the requesting State even if the issue can not be performed. 3. at the request of the requested State, as determined by the law of that State or the rights of third parties, to indulge any items returned without charge to the requested State. Article 12 special provisions 1. subject to paragraph 3 of this article, a person who has been issued in accordance with this agreement, the territory of the requesting State must arrest, prosecute, or otherwise restrict the freedom of this person in connection with any criminal offence that is committed before extradition, except: (a)), a criminal offence in connection with which extradition was carried out, or any other criminal offence for which the extradition is provided for and for which the person could doom based on the facts on which the extradition request is based, provided that this criminal offence is not designed for heavier punishment as it can be determined that a criminal offence for which the extradition was requested; or (b)) for any other criminal offence for which the extradition is provided for and agree to the requested State. 2. a request for consent, pursuant to this article shall be addressed to the requested State, add 5 documents mentioned in the article. 3. paragraph 1 of this article shall not apply if the person has had an opportunity to leave the requesting State and if the person has not done it in 45 days after the removal of the indictment in respect of the offences for which they were issued, or if the person is returned to the territory of the requesting State after having left it. Article 13 transfer the third country 1. If the requested State has transferred, at the request of the person to the requesting State, the latter may not deliver the person to a third State for an offence committed prior to surrender, except: a) the requested State consents to such transfer; or (b)) a person has had an opportunity to leave the requesting State, and this person did not do it for 45 days after the removal of the indictment in respect of the offences for which they were issued, or whether the person is returned to the territory of the requesting State after having left it. 2. before according to the paragraph 1 of this article, (a)) to accept the request for extradition, the requested State may be asked to submit a document referred to in article 5. Article 14 transit 1. If a person is to be extradited from a third country of one of the Contracting States, passing through the territory of the other Contracting State, the Contracting State to which the person is to be extradited, the requested the other Contracting State to transfer the person crossing the territory. 2. After receipt of such a request, the requested Contracting State may grant authorisation, except where it has reasonable grounds to refuse to do so. 3. Permit the transfer of the person subject to the authority of the requested State laws also have permission to hold during transportation of persons in custody. 4. in cases where the person in custody there to this article, the Contracting Party whose in the territory there in custody, you can specify that the person should be released, if the transfer does not continue in reasonable time. 5. the Contracting State to which the person has been issued, shall be reimbursed by the other Contracting State all expenses that the other Contracting State has been incurred in respect of the transfer. Article 15 expenditure 1. The requested State shall take all the measures and shall bear the costs arising from the basis of the extradition request, and the representative of the requesting State. 2. the requested State shall bear the expenses incurred in its territory in connection with the person asked to issue arrest and hold in custody until such time as the person passes the specified of the requesting State party. 3. The requesting State shall bear the costs arising from the konvojēj person from the territory of the requested State. Article 16 entry into force of the agreement and termination 1. This Treaty shall enter into force on the thirtieth day after the receipt of the last notification by which the Contracting States have notified each other in writing of the requirements for the contract to take effect. 2. On the entry into force of this agreement, with respect to the Republic of Latvia and Australia cease 16 July 1924 in Riga signed Treaty between Latvia and Great Britain for the extradition of criminals. 3. a request for extradition, drawn up after the entry into force of this agreement may be executed in accordance with the terms of this agreement, regardless of whether the offence for which extradition is requested is done before or after the entry into force of this agreement. 4. this agreement may be amended by means of a written agreement between the Contracting States. Any agreement to enter into force in accordance with paragraph 1 of this article, the procedure laid down in 5. Each Contracting State may at any time terminate this agreement by notifying, in writing, and the contract shall terminate one hundred eighty days after such notification. In witness whereof, the duly authorised Government entities have signed this Treaty, drawn up in Riga, 14 July 2000, in two originals in the English language.

On behalf of the Republic of Latvia, on behalf of Australia, Ingrid Labuck, Minister of Justice of Stephen Brady Australian Ambassador