Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00057:schedule:28:p10
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00057
Segment Type: schedule
Provision Reference: sch 28 (pt 10/11)
Character Range: 955268–958059

the Competent Authority and the Competent Institution of a Contracting Party may communicate with the other in any of the official languages of the Contracting Parties.

2. An application or document may not be rejected by a Competent Authority or Competent Institution solely because it is in the language of the other Contracting Party.

Article 24
Resolution of Disputes

Any disagreement regarding the interpretation or application of this Agreement shall be resolved by mutual agreement between the Competent Authorities.

Article 25
Review of Agreement

Where a Contracting Party requests the other to meet to review this Agreement, the Contracting Parties shall meet for that purpose as soon as possible and, unless the Contracting Parties otherwise arrange, their meeting shall be held in the territory of the Contracting Party to which that request was made.

PART V
TRANSITIONAL AND FINAL PROVISIONS

Article 26
Transitional Provisions

1. The commencement date for payment of a benefit payable by virtue of this Agreement shall be determined in accordance with the legislation of the Contracting Party concerned but in no case shall that date be a date earlier than the date on which this Agreement enters into force.

2. In determining entitlement to a benefit under this Agreement, periods as an Australian resident, periods of Australian working life residence and creditable periods completed under the legislation of the Slovak Republic before the entry into force of this Agreement shall also be taken into consideration.

3. Where, on the date on which this Agreement enters into force, a person is in receipt of a benefit under the legislation of either Party, no provision of this Agreement shall affect that person's qualification to receive that benefit.

4. Articles 8 & 9 apply from the date of entry into force of this Agreement, even if the person was sent by their employer before this date. For this purpose, the period of secondment is taken to start on the date this Agreement entered into force.

Article 27
Entry into Force

1. This Agreement shall enter into force on the first day of the third month following the month in which notes are exchanged by the Contracting Parties through the diplomatic channel notifying each other that all matters as are necessary to give effect to this Agreement have been finalised.

2. This Agreement may be amended in the future by supplementary agreements which, from their entry into force, shall be considered an integral part of this Agreement.

Article 28
Termination

1. This Agreement has been entered into for an unlimited period of time.

2. Subject to paragraph 3, this Agreement shall remain in force until the last day of the twelfth month following the month in which either Contracting Party