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SOCIAL SECURITY (INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS) ACT 1999 - SECT 12

Rate of pension or allowance payable under agreement where rate to be determined under law of Australia
(1)
If:

(a)
a social security payment is payable to a person under a scheduled international social security agreement; and

(b)
the person is outside Australia; and

(c)
the agreement provides for the rate of the social security payment to be determined according to the law of Australia;

the rate of the social security payment is the person's international agreement portability rate worked out in accordance with Part 3.

(2)
A reference in the agreement to a person's period of residence in Australia is to be taken to be a reference to the period of the person's Australian working life residence for the purposes of this Act.



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