Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00057:schedule:14:p13
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00057
Segment Type: schedule
Provision Reference: sch 14 (pt 13/25)
Character Range: 485239–488190

FINAL PROVISIONS

Article 19
Consideration of entitlements under the Agreement
    1. This Agreement shall not establish any entitlement to benefits for any period prior to its entry into force.
    2. Unless otherwise provided in the Agreement, when the Agreement is being implemented and when rights under it (including deciding eligibility for benefits under the Agreement) are being determined, all valid and relevant events including periods of coverage and periods as an Australian resident, no matter when they occurred, shall be taken into consideration.
    3. The legal force of former decisions shall not preclude the application of this Agreement.
    4. If a benefit has been determined under German legislation with binding force before the entry into force of this Agreement, a review and recalculation under this Agreement of this benefit shall only be carried out if the beneficiary explicitly so requests.

Article 20
Concluding Protocol
     The attached concluding protocol shall form an integral part of this Agreement.

Article 21
Entry into force
    1. This Agreement shall be subject to ratification; the instruments of ratification shall be exchanged in Berlin as soon as possible.
    2. This Agreement shall enter into force on the first day of the second month following the month in which the instruments of ratification are exchanged.

Article 22
Period of the Agreement
    1. This Agreement shall be concluded for an indefinite period of time. Either Contracting Party may denounce this Agreement in writing through diplomatic channels at the end of a calendar year by giving three months' notice. This period of notice shall be calculated from the day on which the notice is received by the other Contracting Party.
    2. In the event of termination by denunciation, the provisions of this Agreement shall continue to apply in respect of claims to benefits acquired not later than the effective date of that termination; restrictive legislation regarding the exclusion of an entitlement or the suspension or withdrawal of benefits on the grounds of temporary or ordinary residence in another state shall not be applicable to such claims.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned, being duly authorised thereto, have signed this Agreement.

DONE at Canberra on this thirteenth day of December 2000 in two copies in the English and German languages, each text being equally authentic.

FOR AUSTRALIA: FOR THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF               GERMANY:

JOCELYN NEWMAN Dr HORST BÄCHMANN and  WALTER RIESTER

[Signatures omitted]

CONCLUDING PROTOCOL TO THE AGREEMENT BETWEEN AUSTRALIA AND THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY ON SOCIAL SECURITY

At the time of signing the Agreement on Social Security concluded this day between Australia and the Federal Republic of Germany, the plenipotentiaries of both Contracting Parties stated that they are in agreement on the following points:
    1. With reference to Article