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- If, during the assessment or revision of any benefit under the provisions of Article 2 of the Agreement, the competent institution of either Contracting Party has paid to a beneficiary a sum in excess of his entitlement, it may request the competent institution of the other Contracting Party responsible for the payment of a corresponding benefit to that person to deduct the amount overpaid from any arrears payable due to him. The latter institution shall transfer the amount so deducted to the creditor institution. If recovery cannot be made in this way, the provisions of the following paragraph shall apply.
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- Where the competent institution of either Contracting Party has paid to a beneficiary a sum in excess of his entitlement, that institution may, on the conditions and to the extent permissible under the legislation it applies, request the competent institution of the other Contracting Party responsible for the payment of benefit to that person to deduct the amount overpaid from the payments it is making to him. The latter 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 creditor institution.
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- Where the competent institution of either Contracting Party has made an advance payment of benefit for a period during which the beneficiary was entitled to a corresponding benefit under the legislation of that Contracting Party, it may request the competent institution of the other Contracting Party to deduct the amount of the advance payments from payments due to him for the same period. The latter institution shall deduct the amount and transfer it to the creditor institution.
