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- In this Agreement unless the context otherwise requires:
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- a)``benefit", for New Zealand means a New Zealand benefit or pension payable in terms of the Social Security Act 1964 or the Social Welfare (Transitional Provisions) Act 1990 or Part 1 of the New Zealand Superannuation Act 2001; and for the Netherlands means: any benefit or pension provided for in the laws of the Netherlands including any increase of, or additional amount payable with a benefit or pension by virtue of these laws;
- b)``competent authority" means in relation to New Zealand, the chief executive of the Ministry of Social Development (the Department of Work and Income) or an authorised representative of the chief executive; and in relation to the Netherlands, the Minister of Social Affairs and Employment;
- (ba)"income tested benefit" means any benefit where eligibility for or the rate of it is dependent on the income of any person;
- c)``institution" in relation to a Contracting Party means, the institution or institutions that are responsible for the application of this Agreement in respect of that Contracting Party;
- d)``month" means a calendar month, but where fractions of a month are aggregated, a month means 30 days;
- e)``social security laws" means in relation to a Contracting Party the laws specified in Article 2 in relation to that Contracting Party;
- f)``New Zealand" means New Zealand only (and not the Cook Islands, Niue and Tokelau); ``The Netherlands" means the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Europe;
- g)``national" means in relation to New Zealand, a New Zealand citizen and in relation to the Netherlands, a person of Netherlands nationality;
- h)``1990 Agreement" means the Agreement on Social Security between the Government of New Zealand and the Government of the Kingdom of the Netherlands done at Wellington on 8 October 1990.
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- In the application by a Contracting Party of this Agreement in relation to a person, any term not defined in this Article shall, unless the context otherwise requires, have the meaning assigned to it in the social security laws of either Contracting Party.
