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The Relevant Provisions of the Rome Statute

RELEVANT SECTIONS OF THE IMPLEMENTING LEGISLATION

Part VI
Mutual legal assistance in criminal matters

CHAPTER III
Special forms of international assistance

Article 158
Transit

1. The provisions of Article 43 shall apply mutatis mutandis to the transit of any person who is under custody in a foreign State and who must appear in the territory of a third State in order to take part at criminal proceedings.

2. Custody of a person in transit shall not remain if the State that authorised the transfer requests the person to be set free.

RELEVANT ROME STATUTE PROVISIONS

Article 59
Arrest proceedings in the custodial State
7. Once ordered to be surrendered by the custodial State, the person shall be delivered to the
Court as soon as possible.

Article 89
Surrender of persons to the Court
3. (a) A State Party shall authorize, in accordance with its national procedural law, transportation through its territory of a person being surrendered to the Court by another State, except where transit through that State would impede or delay the surrender.