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nally arrested in accordance with section 13.
(2)Within twenty four hours of being provisionally arrested the alien shall be brought before
the public prosecutor or assistant public prosecutor who issued the warrant for his provisional
arrest.
(3)After hearing the alien, the public prosecutor or assistant public prosecutor may order that
he be remanded in custody for forty eight hours from the time of the provisional arrest. The as-
sistant public prosecutor shall inform the public prosecutor in writing of his order as soon as
possible.
(4)The period of the remand in custody may be extended once for forty eight hours by the
public prosecutor.
(5) The alien may be released at any time by the public prosecutor. If the remand in custody
has not been extended, the assistant public prosecutor who issued the warrant for provisional
arrest shall also have this power.
Section 15
(1) The examining magistrate in charge of dealing with criminal matters at the court of the
district in which an alien has been remanded in custody in accordance with section 14 may order
the alien’s further remand in custody at the request of the public prosecutor at such district court.
(2) Before making an order under the preceding subsection, the examining magistrate shall
hear the alien if possible.
Section 16
(1) An alien whose remand in custody has been ordered by the examining magistrate in ac-
cordance with section 15 shall be released, subject to the possibility of further deprivation of his
liberty for other reasons:
(a)as soon as this is ordered by the district court, the examining magistrate or the pub-
lic prosecutor ex officio or at the request of the alien or his counsel;
(b)as soon as the period has elapsed within which, according to the applicable treaty,
his provisional arrest must be followed by a request for extradition, if no such request has yet
been made;
(c)as soon as the remand in custody has lasted for twenty days.
(2) In cases in which section 13, subsection 3, applies, the periods referred to in the preceding
subsection at (b) and (c), after the expiry of which the alien must be released, shall be extended