Article
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For the purposes of this Convention -
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(a)
“Contracting Party” means every Signatory State having deposited an instrument of ratification in accordance with paragraph 2 of Article 19 of this Convention and every other European State having deposited an instrument of accession in accordance with paragraph 2 of Article 20;
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(b)
“territory of a Contracting Party” and “national of a Contracting Party” have the meanings assigned to them by the Party concerned in a declaration addressed to the Director-General of the International Labour Office for communication to all other Contracting Parties;
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(c)
“legislation of a Contracting Party” means the existing and future laws and regulations including the rules of the institutions, in force in the whole territory of each Contracting Party or in any part thereof concerning the general and special, contributory and non-contributory, social security schemes applicable in cases of sickness, maternity, employment injury and death (death grant);
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(d)
“competent authority of a Contracting Party” means the minister, the ministers or other corresponding authority of a Contracting Party responsible, in the whole territory of the Party concerned or any part thereof, for the social security schemes applicable to workers engaged in transport;
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(e)
“institution” means the social security body or authority determined by the legislation of each Contracting Party and charged with the application of the legislation either as a whole or in respect of one or more of the branches referred to in paragraph (c) of this Article;
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(f)
“competent institution” means
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(i)
in the case of social insurance, the institution to which the worker is affiliated at the moment when a benefit is claimed or from which there is a right to benefit; or
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(ii)
in the case of a scheme other than social insurance, providing for the liability of the employer in respect of an employment injury, the employer or the subrogated insurer or the institution to be determined by the competent authority of the Contracting Party concerned; or
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(iii)
in the case of a non-contributory scheme, the body or the authority responsible for furnishing the benefits;
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(i)
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(g)
“institution of the place of sojourn” means
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(i)
the institution which is, according to the provisions of the legislation of the Contracting Party concerned, competent for the place where the worker finds himself; or
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(ii)
if such institution is not determined by the legislation, the institution determined for the purposes of this Convention by the competent authority of the Contracting Party;
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(i)
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(h)
“worker” means a person defined as a gainfully employed person or a person treated as such in the legislation to which he is subject who is -
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(i)
in the service of an undertaking engaged in the transport of passengers or goods by railway, road, or air, or inland navigation, whether for hire or reward or on its own account and having its principal place of business in the territory of one of the Contracting Parties; and
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(ii)
employed in the territory of one or more of the Contracting Parties as a member of the travelling personnel;
other than a person who is employed only in the island of Ireland and a Rhine boatman as defined in Article 1 of the Agreement of 27 July 1950 concerning the social security of Rhine boatmen;
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(i)
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“members of the family” means members of the family defined as such by the legislation administered by the competent institution.