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SOCIAL SECURITY (INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS) ACT 1999 - SECT 6

Overriding of social security law by scheduled international social security agreements

  (1)   The provisions of a scheduled international social security agreement have effect despite anything in the social security law.

  (2)   Subsection   (1) applies to a provision of an agreement only in so far as the provision is in force and affects the operation of the social security law.

  (3)   If:

  (a)   immediately before he or she reaches pension age, a person is receiving a social security payment (other than age pension) solely because of the operation of a scheduled international social security agreement; and

  (b)   on reaching pension age, the person becomes qualified for age pension because of the operation of paragraph   43(1)(c) of the Social Security Act 1991 ;

the age pension is taken to be payable to the person under the agreement referred to in paragraph   (a).


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