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ARTICLE 16.
Each of the Hight Contracting Parties shall defray the expenses occasioned by the arrest within its territories, the detention, and the converance to its frontier, of the persons whom it may have consented to surrender in pursuance of the present con-
vention.
ARTICLE 17.
The stipulations of the present convention shall be applicable, so far as the laws permit, to all His Britannic Majesty's Dominions, except to the self-governing Dominions hereinafter named-that is to say, the Dominion of Canada, the Commonwealth of Australia (including for this purpose Papua and Norfolk Island), the Dominion of New Zealand, the Union of South Africa, the Irish Free State, and Newfoundland - and India, provided always that the said stipulations shall be applicable to any of the above-nau.ed Dominions or India in respect of which notice to that effect shall have been given on behalf of the Government of such Dominion or India by His Britannic Majesty's Repre- sentative at Tallin (Reval), and provided also that it shall be competent for either of the High Contracting Parties to terminate separately the application of this convention to any of the above-named Dominions or India by a notice to that effect not exceeding one year and not less than six months.
ARTICLE 18,
The requisition for the surrender of a fugitive criminal, who has taken refuge in any of His Britannic Majesty's self-governing Dominions, Colonies, or Possessions to which this convention applies shall be made to the Governor-General, Governor, or chief authority, of such self-governing Dominion, Colony, or Possession by the appro- priate consular officer of the Esthonian Republic.
Such requisition may be dealt with, subject always, as nearly as may be, and so far as the law of such self governing Dominion, Colony, or Possession will allow, to the pro- visions of this convention by the competent authorities of such self-governing Dominion, Colony or Possession, provided nevertheless that, if an order for the committal of the fugitive criminal to prison to await surrender shall be made, the said Governor-General, Governor, or Chief Authority, nay, instead of issuing a warrant for the surrender of such fugitive criminal, refer the matter to His Britannic Majesty's Government.
Requisitions for the surrender of a fugitive criminal emanating from any self-govern- ing Dominion, Colony, or Possession of His Britannic Majesty shall be governed, as far as possible, by the rules laid down in the preceding articles of the present convention.
ARTICLE 19.
It is understood that the stipulations of the two preceding articles apply in the same manner as if they were Possessions of His Britannic Majesty, to the following British Protectorates, that is to say, the Bechuanaland Protectorate, Gambia Protectorate, Kenya Protectorate, Nigeria Protectorate, Northern Rhodesia, Northern Territories of the Gold Coast, Nyasaland, Sierra Leone Protectorate, Solomon Islands Protectorate, Somali- land Protectorate, Swaziland, Uganda Protectorate and Zanzibar.
It is also understood that if, after the signature of the present convention, it is considered advisable to extend its provisions to any British protectorate other than those mentioned above, or to any British-protected State, or to any territory in respect of which a mandate on behalf of the League of Nations has been accepted by His Britannic Majesty, including the territories in respect of which mandates are being exercised on behalf of His Britannic Majesty by the Government of the Common- wealth of Australia, the Government of the Dominion of New Zealand and the Govern- ment of the Union of South Africa, the stipulations of the two preceding articles shall be deemed to apply to such protectorates or States or mandated territories from the date prescribed in the notes to be exchanged for the purpose of effecting such extension.
It is further understood that the provisions of the present convention which apply to British subjects shall be deemed also to apply to natives of any British protectorate or protected State or mandated territory to which the stipulations of the two preceding articles apply or shall hereafter apply.
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