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- If during the assessment or revision of disablement, old age or survivors’ benefit under the provisions of this Agreement, the competent institution of either Contracting State has paid to a beneficiary a sum in excess of his entitlement, it may request the competent institution of the other Contracting State responsible for the payment of the corresponding benefit to that person to deduct the amount overpaid from any arrears payable due to him. The latter competent institution shall transfer the amount so deducted to the other competent institution. If adjustment cannot be made in this way, the provisions of the following paragraph shall apply.
- 2
- Where the competent institution of either Contracting State has paid to a beneficiary a sum in excess of his entitlement, referred to in paragraph 1, that institution may, on the conditions and to the extent permissible under the legislation it applies, request the competent institution of the other Contracting State responsible, for the payment of benefit to that person, to deduct the amount overpaid from the payments it is making to him. The latter competent institution shall deduct that amount to the extent to which such deduction is permissible under the legislation it applies, as if the overpayment had been made by it, and shall transfer the amount so deducted to the other competent institution.
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- Where the competent institution of either Contracting State has made an advance payment of benefit to a person for any period and arrears of a corresponding benefit become payable for the same period under the legislation of the other Contracting State, the competent institution of the latter Contracting State shall deduct from those arrears the amount paid by way of advance payment and shall transfer the amount so deducted to the competent institution of the first Contracting State.
