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72  Section 1221 (at the end of Module A of the Pension Portability Rate Calculator)
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Former recipients of wife pension
 1221‑A4 If immediately before 20 March 2020:
 (a) either:
 (i) a woman was receiving a wife pension under Part 2.4; or
 (ii) a woman was receiving a wife pension under a scheduled international social security agreement; and
 (b) the woman was a member of a couple; and
 (c) the rate of the woman's wife pension was required to be worked out having regard to the woman's period of Australian working life residence; and
 (d) the woman's period of Australian working life residence was taken to be equal to the period of Australian working life residence of the woman's partner;
then, for a day on or after 20 March 2020, the woman's period of Australian working life residence is taken to be equal to the period of Australian working life residence of the woman's partner if the following apply on that day:
 (e) the woman is a member of that same couple;
 (f) the woman's rate of age pension is worked out as mentioned in section 1220A.