Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00057:schedule:14:p2
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00057
Segment Type: schedule
Provision Reference: sch 14 (pt 2/25)
Character Range: 455910–459117

not defined in paragraph 1 has the meaning assigned to it in the applicable legislation.

Article 2
Legislative scope
    1. Unless otherwise provided in this Agreement, it shall apply:
          (a) as regards the Federal Republic of Germany, to the legislation concerning:
            (i) Wage Earners' Pension Insurance (Rentenversicherung der Arbeiter),
            (ii) Salaried Employees' Pension Insurance (Rentenversicherung der Angestellten),
            (iii) Miners' Pension Insurance (Knappschaftliche Rentenversicherung),
            (iv) Steelworkers' Supplementary Insurance (Hüttenknappschaftliche Zusatzversicherung),
            (v) Farmers' Old Age Security (Alterssicherung der Landwirte); and
          (b) as regards Australia, to the Acts forming the social security law insofar as the law provides for, applies to or affects the following benefits:
            (i) age pension,
            (ii) disability support pension,
            (iii) carer payment,
            (iv) pensions payable to widowed persons, and
            (v) double orphan pension.
    2. Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph 1(b), this Agreement shall apply to women who are receiving wife pension at the date this Agreement comes into force and who are the wives of:
          (a) persons receiving age pension; or
          (b) persons receiving disability support pension for the severely disabled.
    3. This Agreement shall also apply to laws, regulations and other general legislative acts in so far as they amend, supplement or replace the legislation of the Contracting Parties.
    4. Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph 1, the legislation of the Contracting Parties shall not include any laws made at any time for the purpose of giving effect to any other agreement on social security or any supra‑national law.
    5. Australian carer payment and double orphan pension are included in this Agreement to reciprocate those proportions of German benefit included to support a spouse and other dependants.

Article 3
Personal scope
     Unless otherwise provided in this Agreement, it shall apply:
          (a) in the operation of the German legislation, to
            (i) nationals of either Contracting Party;
            (ii) refugees, within the meaning of Article 1 of the Convention of July 28, 1951 and of the Protocol of January 31, 1967 Relating to the Status of Refugees;
            (iii) stateless persons, within the meaning of Article 1 of the Convention Relating to the Status of Stateless Persons of September 28, 1954;
            (iv) other persons to the extent that they derive rights from a national of either Contracting Party, from a refugee or from a stateless person within the meaning of this Article;
            (v) nationals of a state other than a Contracting Party, unless they are included in the group of persons specified in subparagraph (iv); and
          (b) in the operation of the Australian legislation, to any person who is or has been an Australian resident and, where applicable, to other persons in regard to the rights they derive from the persons described above.

Article 4
Equality of treatment
         1. Unless otherwise provided in