- 1
- The competent institution of the Netherlands shall take into account, for the purpose of establishing entitlement to the Netherlands’ disablement benefit, the periods of coverage under the legislation of Japan insofar as they do not coincide with the periods of coverage under the legislation of the Netherlands.
- 2
- If a person specified in Article 3, was subject to the legislation of Japan at the time when incapacity for work followed by disability occurred and had previously completed a period of coverage of at least twelve months under the legislation of the Netherlands on disablement benefit for employed persons, that person shall be entitled to a benefit under the latter legislation, calculated in accordance with paragraphs 3 and 4 of this Article.
- 3
- The amount of the benefit referred to in paragraph 2 of this Article shall be calculated according to the proportion of the periods of coverage which had been completed by a person under the legislation of the Netherlands on disablement benefit for employed persons after the age of 15 and before that person reached the age of 65, to the period between the date on which that person reached the age of 15 and the date of incapacity for work followed by disability, but at the latest the date on which that person reached the age of 65.
- 4
- The periods of employment and periods treated as such completed in the Netherlands before 1 July, 1967 shall be considered as periods of coverage completed under the legislation of the Netherlands on disablement benefit for employed persons.
