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- For the purpose of this Convention:
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- a)“Territory” means,in relation to Slovenia: the territory of the Republic of Slovenia;in relation to the Netherlands: the territory of the Kingdom in Europe;
- b)“National” means, as regards Slovenia, a person with the citizenship of the Republic of Slovenia and as regards the Netherlands a person of the Netherlands nationality;
- c)“Employed person” means a person who is employed by an employer as well as any person who is deemed equivalent to an employed person by the legislation applied;
- d)“Legislation” means laws, ordinances and regulations relating to the systems and branches of social security specified in Article 2;
- e)“Competent authority” means, in relation to Slovenia: the Minister of Labour, Family and Social Affairs, and as far as benefits in cash and in kind of the legislation on sickness insurance are concerned, the Minister of Health;in relation to the Netherlands: the Minister for Social Affairs and Employment and, as far as benefits in kind of the legislation on sickness insurance are concerned, the Minister for Health, Welfare and Sport;
- f)“Insurance institution” means the body or authority charged with the implementation of the legislation specified in Article 2, or a portion thereof;
- g)“Competent institution” means the institution which is competent according to the applicable legislation;
- h)“Competent state” means the Contracting Party in the territory of which the competent institution is situated;
- i)“Insurance period” means a contribution period, a period of employment, a period of residence or any other period defined, recognized or treated as a period of insurance under the legislation applicable to the person during such a period;
- j)“Pension or cash benefit” means a pension or a cash benefit under the applicable legislation including all the constituent parts thereof which are financed out of public funds as well as all increases and additional benefits;
- k)“Member of the family” means a person defined or recognized as such in the legislation of the Contracting Party in whose territory such a person resides; where, however, this legislation regards only persons living with the person concerned as members of the family, this condition shall be deemed to be satisfied if such persons are mainly maintained by the person concerned;
- l)“Institution of the place of residence” means the institution empowered, under the Contracting Party's legislation which it applies, to provide the benefits in question at the place of residence or, where no such institution exists, the institution designated by the competent authority of the Contracting Party concerned;
- m)“Institution of the place of temporary stay” means the institution empowered, under the Contracting Party's legislation which it applies, to provide the benefits in question at the place of temporary stay or, where no such institution exists, the institution designated by the competent authority of the Contracting Party concerned.
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- Other words and expressions which are used in this Convention shall have the meanings respectively assigned to them in the legislation applied.
