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- Where the New Zealand Liaison Body requests the Netherlands Liaison Body to undertake administrative checks or medical examinations of claimants or recipients of New Zealand benefits who are resident in the Netherlands, they will be carried out by the Uitvoeringsinstituut werknemersverzekeringen (Institute for Employee Benefits) for sickness and invalidity benefits, and by the Sociale verzekeringsbank (Social Insurance Bank) for old age benefits, survivors' benefits and children's allowances.
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- Where the Netherlands Liaison Body requests the New Zealand Liaison Body to undertake administrative checks and medical examinations of claimants or recipients of Netherlands benefits who reside in New Zealand, they will be carried out at the request of the New Zealand Liaison Body by an agent of that Liaison Body.
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- Where the Institutions of a Contracting Party requires claimants or recipients residing in the territory of the other Contracting Party to undergo an additional medical examination, the Liaison Body of the latter Contracting Party, at the request of the former Contracting Party, will make arrangements for that examination to be carried out in accordance with the provisions it administers.
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- The Netherlands Liaison Body reserves the right to require the claimant or recipient to be examined by a medical practitioner agreed to by the claimant or recipient or, in the case of the Netherlands Liaison Body, to summon the person involved to undergo a medical examination in the territory of the Netherlands.
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- A person to whom paragraph 4 of this Section applies will present him or herself for medical examination. However, if that person considers that he or she is unfit to travel to the territory of the State where he or she has been summoned by a Liaison Body, he or she will inform that Liaison Body immediately and will submit to that Liaison Body a medical statement issued by a medical practitioner designated for this purpose by a Liaison Body. The statement shall include the medical reasons why the person is unfit to travel and the expected duration of that incapacity.
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- The Liaison Body requesting a medical examination shall reimburse the costs of that examination and where a person has been requested to present him or herself in the territory of the Netherlands, the Netherlands shall pay the travel and accommodation expenses of that person.
