Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00057:schedule:11:p7
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00057
Segment Type: schedule
Provision Reference: sch 11 (pt 7/12)
Character Range: 377971–380788

less than 52 weeks, except where the required period of insurance for entitlement to a benefit under the legislation of Cyprus is less than 52 weeks.

5. For the purpose of converting a period of Australian working life residence into a period of insurance under the legislation of Cyprus, a person shall be treated for each week of working life residence in Australia as having insurable earnings under the legislation of Cyprus equal to the weekly amount of basic insurable earnings.

ARTICLE 11

Calculation of Cyprus Benefits

1. Subject to paragraph 2, the amount of benefit payable under the provisions of Article 10 shall be determined as follows:

(a) the Competent Institution of Cyprus shall calculate the theoretical basic benefit that would be payable if the periods of insurance completed under the legislation of Cyprus and the periods of Australian working life residence, totalised as provided in paragraph 1 of Article 10, had been periods of insurance under the legislation of Cyprus alone;
(b) it shall then prorate the theoretical basic benefit so calculated by the fraction which represents the ratio of the insurance periods completed under the legislation of Cyprus in relation to the total of the insurance periods completed under that legislation and the periods of Australian working life residence which are taken into account; and
(c) the amount of the supplementary benefit shall be determined exclusively on the basis of periods of insurance completed under the legislation of Cyprus.

2. The amount of the funeral benefit payable under the legislation of Cyprus shall be calculated as if the periods of residence, which are taken into account as provided in paragraph 1 of Article 10, were periods of insurance under the legislation of Cyprus alone.

ARTICLE 12

Work‑related disablement

1. Subject to paragraph 2, pensions for work‑related disablement under the legislation of Cyprus shall be paid by virtue of this agreement in respect of disablement which occurs while a person is insured under that legislation and employed in an occupation which is valid for the purposes of that legislation.

2. The rate of a pension for work‑related disablement paid by virtue of this Agreement shall be calculated as if the impairment which qualified a person for a benefit under the legislation of Australia had occurred under the legislation of Cyprus.

PART IV—MISCELLANEOUS AND ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS

ARTICLE 13

Lodgement of Documents

1. A claim, notice or appeal concerning a benefit, whether payable by a Party by virtue of this Agreement or otherwise, may be lodged in the territory of the other Party in accordance with the Administrative Arrangement made pursuant to Article 17 at any time after the Agreement enters into force.

2. For the purposes of assessing entitlement