Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00057:schedule:8:p12
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00057
Segment Type: schedule
Provision Reference: sch 8 (pt 12/14)
Character Range: 281573–284475

outside Australia of an Australian benefit that is payable by virtue of this Agreement shall not be restricted by those provisions of the legislation of Australia which prohibit the payment of a benefit to a former Australian resident who returns to Australia, becoming again an Australian resident, and lodges a claim for an Australian benefit and leaves Australia within a specified period of time.

ARTICLE 18

Exchange of Information and Mutual Assistance

    1. The Competent Authorities and Competent Institutions responsible for the application of this Agreement:

         (a) shall communicate to each other any information necessary for the application of this Agreement;

         (b) shall lend their good offices and furnish assistance to one another with regard to the determination or payment of any benefit under this Agreement or the legislation to which this Agreement applies as if the matter involved the application of their own legislation;

         (c) shall communicate to each other, as soon as possible, all information about the measures taken by them for the application of this Agreement or about changes in their respective legislation insofar as these changes affect the application of this Agreement; and

         (d) at the request of one to the other, assist each other in relation to the implementation of agreements on social security entered into by either of the Parties with third States, to the extent and in the circumstances specified in administrative arrangements made in accordance with Article 19.

    2. The assistance referred to in paragraph 1 shall be provided free of charge, subject to any administrative arrangements made pursuant to Article 19.

    3. Unless disclosure is required under the laws of a Party, any information about an individual which is transmitted in accordance with this Agreement to a Competent Authority or a Competent Institution of that Party by a Competent Authority or a Competent Institution of the other Party is confidential and shall be used only for purposes of implementing this Agreement and the legislation to which this Agreement applies.

    4. In no case shall the provisions of paragraphs 1 and 3 be construed so as to impose on the Competent Authority or Competent Institution of a Party the obligation:

         (a) to carry out administrative measures at variance with the laws or the administrative practice of that Party or the other Party; or

         (b) to supply particulars which are not obtainable under the laws or in the normal course of the administration of that Party or the other Party.

    5. In the application of this Agreement, the Competent Authority and the Competent Institution of a Party may communicate with the other in any official language of that Party.

ARTICLE 19

Administrative Arrangements

The Competent Authorities of the Parties shall make whatever administrative