Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00057:schedule:18:p11
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00057
Segment Type: schedule
Provision Reference: sch 18 (pt 11/15)
Character Range: 634114–636971

no information concerning a person which is received by that contracting Party from the other contracting Party shall be transferred or disclosed to any other country or to any organisation within that other country without the prior written consent of that other contracting Party.

    6. For the application of this Agreement, the competent authorities and the competent institutions of the contracting Parties are authorised to correspond directly with each other and similarly with any person, whether this person is present in Australia, Belgium or a third State. Correspondence may be in one of the official languages of the contracting Parties.

Article 22

Taxes and exemption from authentication

    1. The benefit of exemption from, or reduction in taxes, stamp duty, recording or registration as provided for by the legislation of one of the contracting Parties for the documents and papers required to be produced under the legislation of that contracting Party, is extended to similar documents and papers required to be produced under the legislation of the other contracting Party.

    2. All statements and documents required to be produced under this Agreement are exempt from the diplomatic or consular authorities' stamp of authentication.

Article 23

Claims, notices and appeals

         1. (a) Where a claim, notice or appeal under the legislation of one contracting Party has been lodged with an authority, institution or tribunal of the other contracting Party which, under the legislation of the latter contracting Party, is competent to receive an equivalent claim, notice or appeal, such a claim, notice or appeal shall be deemed to have been lodged with the authority, institution or tribunal of the first contracting Party on the same date as the claim, notice or appeal was lodged with the authority, institution or tribunal in the other contracting Party.

          (b) In this case, the receiving authority, institution or tribunal, shall transmit without delay such a claim, notice or appeal to the authority, institution or tribunal of the first contracting Party, either directly or by the intermediary of the competent authorities of the contracting Parties.

    2. A claim for a pension from one contracting Party shall be considered as a claim for a corresponding pension from the other contracting Party so long as the claimant has indicated in that claim that there is, or there was, an affiliation with the social security system of that other contracting Party.

    3. A document may not be rejected on the basis of it being written in an official language of the other contracting Party.

    4. The reference in paragraph 1 to an appeal document is a reference to a document concerning an appeal that may be made to an administrative institution established by, or administratively for the purposes of, the