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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, FEBRUARY 4, 1927.
ARTICLE 10.
A criminal fugitive may also be arrested before the requisition for his surrender is made, under a warrant or other judicial document of like nature issued by a competent judicial authority in either State, on such information or complaint and such evidence, or after such proceedings, as would justify the issue of a warrant, or other judicial docu- ment of like nature if the crime or offence had been committed or the person convicted in that part of the territory of the two Contracting Parties in which the competent judi- cial authority exercises jurisdiction.
Notice of the date of his arrest shall be given forthwith to the diplomatic agent of the party claiming extradition.
The person arrested shall be discharged, in so far as the laws of the State where he has been arrested do not oppose, if within the term of forty days from his arrest a requi- sition for extradition shall not have been made, in accordance with the stipulations of this treaty, by the diplomatic agent of the State claiming his extradition.
The same rule shall apply to persons charged with or convicted of any of the crimes or offences specified in this treaty, and committed on the high seas on board any vessel of either State which may come into a port of the other.
ARTICLE 11.
The extradition shall take place only if the evidence be found sufficient, according to the laws of the State applied to, either to justify the committal of the prisoner for trial, in case the crime or offence had been committed in the territory of the same State, or to prove that the prisoner is the identical person convicted by the courts of the State which makes, the requisition, and that the crime or offence of which he has been convicted is one for which extradition may be granted under this treaty.
ARTICLE 12.
Warrants, depositions and all other documents and copies thereof shall be accepted as evidence in support of a claim for extradition if they are signed or certified by a com- petent authority and are authenticated in the United Kingdom by the seal of a Secretary of State, and in the Czechoslovak Republic by the seal of the Minister of Justice.
ARTICLE 13.
If the individual claimed by one of the High Contracting Parties in pursuance of the present treaty should be also claimed by one or several other Powers on account of other crimes or offences committed within their respective jurisdictions, his extradition shall be granted to the State whose claim is earliest in date, unless such claim is waived.
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This article shall not affect such treaties as have already previously been concluded by one of the Contracting Parties with other States.
ARTICLE 14.
If sufficient evidence for the extradition be not produced within two months from the date of the arrest of the fugitive, or within such further time as the State applied to, or its competent tribunal, shall direct, the fugitive shall be set at liberty in so far as the laws of the State where the person claimed has been arrested do not oppose.
ARTICLE 15.
All articles seized which were in the possession of the person to be surrendered at the time of his arrest, and any articles that may serve as a proof of the crime or offence, shall be given up, if possible when the extradition takes place.
The State to whom extradition is granted shall nevertheless return any article so given up for a temporary purpose if the State granting extradition shall so require.
The above stipulations are subject to the rights of third persons and are applicable only so far as the law of the State concerned permits.