security or public order otherwise require, and the provisions of the schedule to this Convention shall
apply with respect to such documents. The Contracting States may issue such a travel document to
any other stateless person in their territory; they shall in particular give sympathetic consideration to
the issue of such a travel document to stateless persons in their territory who are unable to obtain a
travel document from the country of their lawful residence.
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. Article 31. - Expulsion
1. The Contracting States shall not expel a stateless person lawfully in their territory save on
grounds of national security or public order.
2. The expulsion of such a stateless person shall be only in pursuance of a decision reached in
accordance with due process of law. Except where compelling reasons of national security otherwise
require, the stateless person shall be allowed to submit evidence to clear himself, and to appeal to
and be represented for the purpose before competent authority or a person or persons specially
designated by the competent authority.
3. The Contracting States shall allow such a stateless person a reasonable period within which to
seek legal admission into another country. The Contracting States reserve the right to apply during
that period such internal measures as they may deem necessary.
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