Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00057:schedule:14:p7
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00057
Segment Type: schedule
Provision Reference: sch 14 (pt 7/25)
Character Range: 469251–472196

provisions of Australian legislation which prohibit the payment of an Australian benefit to a former Australian resident who:
          (a) returns to Australia to again become an Australian resident;
          (b) claims an Australian benefit; and
          (c) departs Australia within a period specified in that legislation,
     shall not apply to a person who receives that benefit by virtue of the Agreement.
    5. Where a double orphan pension would be payable to a person under the social security laws of Australia, in respect of a young person whose sole surviving parent died while that young person was an Australian resident, if that person and that young person were residents of Australia, that pension shall, subject to the provisions of those laws, be payable while that person and that young person are residents of the Federal Republic of Germany.

PART III
MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS

CHAPTER 1
ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANCE

Article 10
Mutual assistance
    1. The institutions, associations of institutions, authorities and competent authorities of the Contracting Parties shall provide assistance to each other in the application of the legislation specified in paragraph 1 of Article 2 and in the implementation of this Agreement, in the same manner in which they apply their own legislation.
    2. The institution of one Contracting Party, when requested by the institution of the other Contracting Party, shall, to the extent permitted by its legislation, provide to that institution free of charge any medical data and documents in its possession relating to the general disability of an applicant or beneficiary.
    3. If an institution of one Contracting Party requires an applicant or beneficiary who lives in the territory of the other Contracting Party to undergo a medical examination, such examination shall, at the request of that institution, be arranged or carried out by the institution of the latter Contracting Party. The medical examination will be done at the expense of the requesting institution.
    4. The agencies referred to in paragraph 1 shall, within their respective areas of jurisdiction and to the extent possible, communicate to each other such information and transmit such documentation as may be required to maintain the rights and obligations of the persons concerned under the legislation specified in paragraph 1 of Article 2 and under this Agreement. Such information or documentation regarding a person shall also be transmitted to that person at his or her request.
    5. The assistance referred to in paragraph 1 shall be provided free of charge, subject to any arrangement reached between the competent authorities for the reimbursement of certain types of expenses.

Article 11
Fees
    1. Where, under the legislation of one Contracting Party documents submitted to an authority or institution of that Contracting Party are partly or fully exempt from administrative charges,