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1. This Agreement shall apply to all social security laws and regulations which are in force at the date of signature or may subsequently come into force in any part of the territory of the Contracting Parties and which relate to:E+W+S+N.I.
(a) sickness, maternity and death (death grants), including medical benefits insofar as they are not subject to a needs test;
(b) employment injury;
(c) unemployment;
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1. Subject to the provisions of Article 9, a national of anyone of the Contracting Parties shall be entitled to receive the benefits of the laws and regulations of any other of the Contracting Parties under the same conditions as if he were a national of the latter:—E+W+S+N.I.
(a) in the case of benefit in respect of employment injury, provided that he resides in the territory of one of the Contracting Parties,
(b) in the case of any benefit other than benefit in respect of employment injury, provided that he is ordinarily resident in the territory of the latter Contracting Party,
(c) in the case of benefit claimed in respect of sickness, maternity or unemployment, provided that he had become ordinarily resident in the territory of the latter Contracting Party before the first medical certification of the sickness, the presumed date of conception or the beginning of the unemployment, as the case may be,
(d) in the case of a benefit provided under a non-contributory scheme, other than a benefit in respect of employment injury, provided that he has been resident for six months in the territory of the latter Contracting Party.
2. In any case where the laws and regulations of anyone of the Contracting Parties impose a restriction on the rights of a national of that Party who was not born in. its territory, a national of any other of the Contracting Parties born in the territory of the latter shall be treated as if he were a national of the former Contracting Party born in its territory.E+W+S+N.I.
3. In any case where in determining a right to benefit the laws and regulations of anyone of the Contracting Parties make any distinction which depends on the nationality of a child, a child who is a national of any other of the Contracting Parties shall be treated as if he were a national of the former Contracting Party.E+W+S+N.I.
E+W+S+N. I. Subject to the provisions of any relevant bilateral and multilateral agreements, benefits which in the absence of this Agreement have not been awarded or have been suspended shall be awarded or reinstated from the date of the entry into force of this Agreement for all the Contracting Parties concerned with the claim in question, provided that the claim thereto is presented within one year after such date or within such longer period as may be determined by the Contracting Party under whose laws and regulations the benefit is claimed. If the claim is not presented within such period, the benefit shall be awarded or reinstated from the date of the claim or such earlier date as may be determined by the latter Contracting Party.
E+W+S+N. I. The provisions of this Agreement shall not limit the provisions of any national laws or regulations, international conventions, or bilateral or multilateral agreements which are more favourable for the beneficiary.
E+W+S+N. I. The provisions of the principal Agreement shall apply to refugees under the same conditions as they apply to the nationals of the Contracting Parties thereto provided that Article 3 of that Agreement shall apply to refugees only in cases where the Contracting Parties to the agreements to which that Article refers have ratified this Protocol or acceded thereto.
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1. This Protocol shall be open to the signature of the Members of the Council of Europe who have signed the principal Agreement. It shall be ratified.E+W+S+N.I.
2. Any State which has acceded to the principal Agreement may accede to this Protocol.E+W+S+N.I.
3. This Protocol shall come into force F12 on the first day of the month following the date of deposit of the second instrument of ratification.E+W+S+N.I. Annotations: Amendments (Textual) F12October 1, 1954.
4. As regards any Signatory ratifying subsequently, or any aceeding State, the Protocol shall come into force on the first day of the month following the date of the deposit of its instrument of ratification or accession.E+W+S+N.I.
5. Instruments of ratification and accession shall be deposited with the Secretary General of the Council of Europe, who shall notify the Members of the Council, acceding States and the Director-General of the International Labour Office of the names of those who have ratified or acceded.E+W+S+N.I. In witness whereof the undersigned, being duly authorised thereto, have signed this Protocol. Done at Paris, this 11th day of December, 1953. in the English and French languages both texts being equally authoritative in a single copy which shall remain in the archives of the Council of Europe and of which the Secretary General shall send certified copies to each of the Signatories and to the Director General of the International Labour Office. THIRD SCHEDULEE+W+S+N.I.NOTIFICATION RELATING TO SCHEMES OF FAMILY ALLOWANCES RECEIVED BY THE SECRETARY-GENERAL OF THE COUNCIL OF EUROPE ON THE NINTH DAY OF JANUARY, 1959. The Government of the United Kingdom has withdrawn its reservation to the European Interim Agreement on Social Security other than schemes for old age, invalidity and survivors in so far as that reservation concerns the schemes of family allowances in Great Britain and the Isle of Man, and has modified that reservation in so far as it concerns the scheme of family allowances in Northern Ireland. All the relevant provisions of the agreement now apply to the schemes of family allowances in Great Britain and the Isle of Man. Under the scheme of family allowances in Northern Ireland, nationals of other contracting parties will be treated as if they were United Kingdom nationals but they will not be treated as if they were born in the United Kingdom. FOURTH SCHEDULEE+W+S+N.I.GOVERNMENTS RATIFYING OR ACCEDING TO THE AGREEMENT AND THE PROTOCOL WITH DATES OF DEPOSIT OF THEI...
E+W+S+N. I. This Agreement shall not affect those provisions of national laws or regulations which relate to the participation of insured persons, and of other categories of persons, concerned in the management of social security.
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1. Annex I to this Agreement sets out in relation to each Contracting Party the social security schemes to which Article 1 applies which are in force in any part of its territory at the date of signature of this Agreement.E+
E+W+S+N. I. The Annexes to this Agreement shall constitute an integral part of this Agreement.
E+W+S+N. I. In the event of the denunciation of this Agreement by any of the Contracting Parties—
(a) any right acquired by a person in accordance with its provisions shall be maintained and, in particular, if he has, in accordance with its provisions, acquired the right to receive any benefit under the laws and regulations of one of the Contracting Parties while he IS resident 10 the territory of another, he shall continue to enjoy that right;
(b) subject to any conditions which may be laid down by supplementary agreements concluded by the Contracting Parties concerned for the settlement of any rights then in course of acquisition, the provisions of this Agreement shall continue to apply to insurance periods and equivalent periods completed before the date when the denunciation becomes effective.