Paragraph 12
The authority issuing a new document shall withdraw the old document and shall return it to the
country of issue if it is stated in the document that it should be so returned; otherwise it shall
withdraw and cancel the document.
Paragraph 13
1.
A travel document issued in accordance with article 28 of this Convention shall, unless it
contains a statement to the contrary, entitle the holder to re-enter the territory of the issuing State
at any time during the period of its validity. In any case the period during which the holder may
return to the country issuing the document shall not be less than three months, except when the
country to which the stateless person proposes to travel does not insist on the travel document
according the right of re-entry.
2.
Subject to the provisions of the preceding sub-paragraph, a Contracting State may
require the holder of the document to comply with such formalities as may be prescribed in regard
to exit from or return to its territory.
Paragraph 14
Subject only to the terms of paragraph 13, the provisions of this Schedule in no way affect the
laws and regulations governing the conditions of admission to, transit through, residence and
establishment in, and departure from, the territories of the Contracting States.
Paragraph 15
Neither the issue of the document nor the entries made thereon determine or affect the status of
the holder, particularly as regards nationality.
Paragraph 16
The issue of the document does not in any way entitle the holder to the protection of the
diplomatic or consular authorities of the country of issue, and does not ipso facto confer on these
authorities a right of protection.
Article 29
Fiscal charges
1.
The Contracting States shall not impose upon stateless persons duties, charges or taxes,
of any description whatsoever, other or higher than those which are or may be levied on their
nationals in similar situations.
2.
Nothing in the above paragraph shall prevent the application to stateless persons of the
laws and regulations concerning charges in respect of the issue to aliens of administrative
documents including identity papers.
Article 30
Transfer of assets
1.
A Contracting State shall, in conformity with its laws and regulations, permit stateless
persons to transfer assets which they have brought into its territory, to another country where
they have been admitted for the purposes of resettlement.
2.
A Contracting State shall give sympathetic consideration to the application of stateless
persons for permission to transfer assets wherever they may be and which are necessary for their
resettlement in another country to which they have been admitted.
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