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- Applications, appeals and other documents which, in accordance with the legislation of a Contracting Party, have to be submitted to an authority or insurance institution within a specified period shall be admissible if they are submitted within the same period to a corresponding authority or insurance institution of the other Contracting Party. The authority or insurance institution of the latter Contracting Party shall without delay forward them to the authority or insurance institution of the former Contracting Party. The date on which these documents were submitted to the authority or insurance institution of the latter Contracting Party shall be considered as the date of their submission to the authority or insurance institution of the former Contracting Party.
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- An application for a benefit submitted in accordance with the legislation of one Contracting Party shall be considered as an application for the corresponding benefit under the legislation of the other Contracting Party. With respect to old-age pensions, however, this shall not apply if the applicant states or if it is quite evident that the application refers solely to a pension under the legislation of the former Contracting Party.
