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- If, when awarding or reviewing pensions in respect of old age or death pursuant to Chapter 4 of Part III, the insurance institution of a Contracting Party has paid to a beneficiary a sum in excess of that to which he is entitled, that institution may request the insurance institution of the other Contracting Party responsible for the payment of corresponding benefits to that beneficiary to deduct the amount overpaid from the arrears which it pays to him. The latter institution shall transfer the amount deducted to the creditor institution. Where the amount overpaid cannot be deducted from the arrears, the provisions of paragraph 2 of this Article shall apply.
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- When in other cases the insurance institution of a Contracting Party has paid to a beneficiary a sum in excess of that to which he is entitled that institution may, within the conditions and limits laid down by the legislation which it applies, request the insurance institution of the other Contracting Party responsible for the payment of benefits to that beneficiary to deduct the amount overpaid from the amounts which it pays to him. The latter institution shall make the deduction under the conditions and within the limits provided for such setting-off by the legislation which it applies, as if the sums had been overpaid by itself, and shall transfer the amount deducted to the creditor institution.
