Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

SOCIAL SECURITY (INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS) ACT 1999 - SECT 12

             (1)  If:

                     (a)  a social security payment is payable to a person under a scheduled international social security agreement; and

                     (b)  the person is outside Australia; and

                     (c)  the agreement provides for the rate of the social security payment to be determined according to the law of Australia;

the rate of the social security payment is the person's international agreement portability rate worked out in accordance with Part 3.

             (2)  A reference in the agreement to a person's period of residence in Australia is to be taken to be a reference to the period of the person's Australian working life residence for the purposes of this Act.