Article
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For the purposes of this Convention:
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(a)
the term “Contracting Party” means any State which has deposited an instrument of ratification, of acceptance or of accession, in accordance with the provisions of Article 75, paragraph 1, or of Article 77;
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(b)
the terms “territory of a Contracting Party” and “national of a Contracting Party” are defined in Annex I; each Contracting Party shall give notice, in accordance with the provisions of Article 81, paragraph 1, of any amendment to be made to Annex I;
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(c)
the term “legislation” means any laws, regulations and other statutory instruments which are in force at the time of signature of this Convention or may enter into force subsequently in the whole or any part of the territory of each Contracting Party and which relate to the social security branches and schemes specified in Article 2, paragraphs 1 and 2;
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(d)
the term “social security convention” means any bilateral or multilateral instrument by which two or more Contracting Parties are, or may subsequently be, bound exclusively, and any multilateral instrument by which at least two Contracting Parties and one or more other States are, or may subsequently be, bound in the field of social security in respect of all or of part of the social security branches and schemes specified in Article 2, paragraphs 1 and 2, as well as any agreements concluded pursuant to the said instruments;
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(e)
the term “competent authority” means the Minister, Ministers or other corresponding authority responsible for the social security schemes in all or any part of the territory of each Contracting Party;
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(f)
the term “institution” means the body or authority responsible for applying all or part of the legislation of each Contracting Party;
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(g)
the term “competent institution” means:
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(i)
in relation to a social insurance scheme, either the institution with which the person concerned is insured when he claims benefit, or the institution from which he is entitled to receive benefit or would be entitled to receive benefit if he were resident in the territory of the Contracting Party where that institution is situated, or the institution designated by the competent authority of the Contracting Party concerned;
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(ii)
in relation to a scheme other than a social insurance scheme, or in relation to a family benefits scheme, the institution designated by the competent authority of the Contracting Party concerned;
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(iii)
in relation to a scheme concerning an employer’s liability in respect of benefits referred to in Article 2, paragraph 1, either the employer or his insurer or, in default thereof, the body or authority designated by the competent authority of the Contracting Party concerned;
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(i)
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(h)
the term “competent State” means the Contracting Party in whose territory the competent institution is situated;
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(i)
the term “residence” means ordinary residence;
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(j)
the term “temporary residence” means a temporary stay;
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(k)
the term “institution of the place of residence” means the institution empowered, under the Contracting Party's legislation which it applies, to pay the benefits in question at the place of residence or, where no such institution exists, the institution designated by the competent authority of the Contracting Party concerned;
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(l)
the term “institution of the place of temporary residence” means the institution empowered, under the Contracting Party’s legislation which it applies, to pay the benefits in question at the place of temporary residence or, where no such institution exists, the institution designated by the competent authority of the Contracting Party concerned;
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(m)
the term “worker” means an employed person or a selfemployed person or a person treated as such under the legislation of the Contracting Party concerned, unless otherwise specified in this Convention;
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(n)
the term “frontier worker” means an employed person who is employed in the territory of one Contracting Party and resides in the territory of another Contracting Party where he returns in principle every day or at least once a week; provided that
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(i)
as regards relations between France and the Contracting Parties bordering France, the person concerned must, to be deemed a frontier worker, reside and be employed within a zone which does not, in principle, extend more than twenty kilometres on either side of the common frontier;
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(ii)
a frontier worker employed in the territory of one Contracting Party by an undertaking which is his normal employer, who is sent by that undertaking to work outside the frontier area, either in the territory of the same Contracting Party or in the territory of another Contracting Party, for a period not expected to exceed four months, shall retain the status of frontier worker during such employment for a period not exceeding four months;
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(i)
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(o)
the term “refugee” has the meaning assigned to it in Article 1, Section A, of the Convention on the Status of Refugees, signed at Geneva on 28 July 1951, and in Article 1, paragraph 2, of the Protocol on the Status of Refugees of 31 January 1967, without any geographical limitation;
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(p)
the term “stateless person” has the meaning assigned to it in Article 1 of the Convention on the Status of Stateless Persons, done at New York on 28 September 1954;
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(q)
the term “members of the family” means the persons defined, or recognised as such, or designated as members of the household, by the legislation applied by the institution responsible for paying benefits, or, in the cases referred to in Article 21, paragraph 1, subparagraphs (a) and (c) and Article 24, paragraph 6, by the legislation of the Contracting Party in whose territory they reside; where, however, this legislation regards only persons living with the person concerned as members of the family or members of the household, this condition shall be deemed to be satisfied if such persons are mainly maintained by the person concerned;
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(r)
the term “survivors” means the persons defined or recognised as such by the legislation under which the benefits are granted; where, however, this legislation regards as survivors only persons who were living with the deceased, this condition shall be deemed to be satisfied, if the persons concerned were mainly maintained by the deceased;
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(s)
the term “periods of insurance” means periods of contributions, employment, occupational activity or residence as defined or recognised as periods of insurance by the legislation under which they were completed, and any other periods, in so far as they are regarded by this legislation as equivalent to periods of insurance;
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(t)
the terms “periods of employment” and “periods of occupational activity” mean periods defined or recognised as such by the legislation under which they were completed, and any other periods, in so far as they are regarded by this legislation as equivalent to periods of employment or occupational activity;
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(u)
the term “periods of residence” means periods of residence as defined or recognised as such by the legislation under which they were completed;
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(v)
the terms “benefits” and “pensions” mean all benefits or pensions, including all components thereof provided out of public funds and all increases, revaluation allowances or supplementary allowances, unless otherwise specified in this Convention, and any benefits awarded for the purpose of maintaining or improving earning capacity, such lump sum benefits as are payable in lieu of pensions and, where applicable, any payments made by way of refund of contributions;
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(w)
the term “family allowances” means periodical cash benefits granted according to the number and age of children; the expression “family benefits” means any benefits in kind or in cash granted to offset family maintenance costs, except the special birth grants explicitly excluded in Annex II; each Contracting Party concerned shall give notice in accordance with the provisions of Article 81, paragraph 1, of any amendment to be made to Annex II in respect of any special birth grants provided by its legislation;
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(x)
the term “death grant” means any lump sum payable in the event of death, other than the lump sum benefits mentioned in subparagraph (v) of this Article;
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(y)
the term “contributory” applies to benefits, the award of which depends either on direct financial participation by the persons protected or by their employer, or on a qualifying period of occupational activity, and to legislation or schemes which provide for such benefits; benefits, the award of which does not depend on direct financial participation by the persons protected or by their employer, or on a qualifying period of occupational activity, and the legislation or schemes under which they are exclusively awarded, are said to be “non-contributory”;
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(z)
the term “benefits granted under transitional arrangements” means benefits granted to persons who are over a given age on the date of entry into force of the legislation applicable, or benefits granted provisionally in consideration of events that have occurred or periods that have been completed outside the current frontiers of the territory of a Contracting Party.