Federal Act
on International Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters
(Mutual Assistance Act, IMAC)

If the re­quest­ing State does not take the ne­ces­sary steps to take over the per­son to be ex­tra­dited with­in ten days of no­ti­fic­a­tion of the ex­e­cu­tion or­der, he shall be re­leased. This time lim­it may be ex­ten­ded up to 30 days in re­sponse to a jus­ti­fied re­quest from the re­quest­ing State.