Article 5. Procedure for Execution of Sentence

1. Except as otherwise provided in this Treaty, the completion of a transferred offender's sentence shall be carried out according to the laws and procedures of the Receiving State, including those governing conditions for service of imprisonment, confinement or other forms of deprivation of liberty, and those providing for the reduction of the term of imprisonment, confinement or other forms of deprivation of liberty by conditional release or otherwise. The Transferring State shall, in addition, retain a power to pardon the offender or to commute his sentence and the Receiving State shall, upon being notified of such pardon or commutation, give effect thereto.

2. The Receiving State may treat under its law relating to juvenile offenders any offender so categorized under its law regardless of his status under the law of the Transferring State.

3. No sentence of deprivation of liberty shall be enforced by the Receiving State in such a way as to extend it beyond the period specified in the sentence of the court of the Transferring State.

4. The expenses incurred in the transfer of the offender or in the completion of the offender's sentence shall be borne by the Receiving State.

5. The authorities of either Party shall at the request of the other Party provide reports indicating the status of all offenders transferred under this Treaty, including, in particular, the release of any offender. Either Party may, at any time, request a special report on the status of the execution of an individual sentence.

6. The transfer of an offender under the provisions of this Treaty shall not create any additional disability under the law of the Receiving State beyond that which the fact of his conviction may in and of itself already have created.

Article 6. Final Provisions

1. This Treaty shall enter into force on the date of the latter of the diplomatic Notes by which the Parties notify each other that their internal legal requirements for the entering into force of the Treaty have been complied with.

2. The present Treaty shall remain in force for three years from the date upon which it enters into force. Thereafter, the Treaty shall continue to be in force until ninety days from the date upon which either Party gives written notice to the other Party of its intention to terminate the Treaty.

In witness whereof the undersigned, being duly authorised thereto by their respective Governments, have signed the present Treaty.

Done in duplicate at Bangkok on the 13th day of August 1997 corresponding to the 13th day of August 2540 of the Buddhist Era, and corresponding to the 10th day of Av, 5757, in the Thai, Hebrew and English languages, each text being equally authentic. In case of divergence of interpretation, the English text shall prevail.

For the Government of the State of Israel:
MORECHAY LEWY
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

For the Government of the Kingdom of Thailand:
PRACHUAB CHAIYASAN
Minister of Foreign Affairs

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