Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00057:schedule:23:p12
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00057
Segment Type: schedule
Provision Reference: sch 23 (pt 12/12)
Character Range: 818755–820233

into Force

 This Agreement shall enter into force on the first day of the month following the month in which the Parties shall have completed an exchange of diplomatic notes informing each other that their respective statutory and constitutional requirements necessary to give effect to this Agreement have been fulfilled.

Article 31
Duration and Termination

1. This Agreement shall remain in force and effect until the last day of the twelfth month following the month in which either Party gives the other Party written notification through diplomatic channels of its termination.

2. If this Agreement is terminated in accordance with paragraph 1 of this Article, rights regarding entitlement to and payment of benefits acquired under it shall be retained, in respect of a person who submits an application for those benefits and who fulfills the requirements for entitlement to those benefits prior to the date of termination.

 In witness whereof, the undersigned, being duly authorised thereto by their respective Governments, have signed this Agreement.

 Done at Canberra on the twenty seventh day of February two thousand and seven in duplicate in the English and Japanese languages, the two texts being equally authentic.

For Australia:                                                    For Japan:

Hon Mal Brough                                                    HE Hideaki Ueda
Minister for Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs  Ambassador