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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-insurance-germany-order-1961/schedule-FIRST/part-III/paragraph-wrapper17n1",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1961/1513",
  "legislation_title": "The National Insurance (Germany) Order 1961",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-insurance-germany-order-1961",
  "path": "schedule/FIRST/part/III/paragraph/wrapper17n1",
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  "text": "Article 8\n(1) Where a person, who has been employed in the territory of one Contracting Party, goes to the territory of the other Party and becomes employed there, otherwise than in contravention of any laws or regulations relating to the employment of aliens, in an employment which is subject, to compulsory insurance under the legislation of the latter Party, he shall, subject to the provisions of Articles 10 and 11 of the present Convention, be entitled to receive unemployment benefit under the legislation of the latter Party, if he satisfies the conditions for receiving such benefit laid down in that legislation.\n(2) For the purpose of any claim which a person makes to receive unemployment-benefit under the legislation of the United Kingdom—\n(a) any period of employment completed by him which is compulsorily insurable under German legislation shall be treated as if it were a period during which he had paid contributions as an employed person under the legislation of the United Kingdom ;\n(b) any period during which he was entitled under German legislation to receive unemployment benefit or sickness benefit under sickness insurance shall be treated as if it were a period during which contributions were credited to him as an employed person under the legislation of the United Kingdom;\n(c) any period during which he was resident in the territory of the Federal Republic shall be treated as if it were a period during which he was resident in the territory of the United Kingdom.\n(3) If a person, who has been employed in the territory of the Federal Republic, goes to the territory of the United Kingdom and becomes employed there, otherwise than in contravention of any laws or regulations relating to the employment of aliens, in an insurable employment under the legislation of the United Kingdom, and subsequently applies under that legislation for exception from liability to contribute and for contributions to be credited to him on grounds of unemployment, then, for the purpose of that application—\n(a) any period of employment completed by him which is compulsorily insurable under German legislation shall be treated as if it were a period during which he was employed in an employed contributor's employment and had paid contributions as an employed person under the legislation of the United Kingdom ;\n(b) any period during which he was entitled under German legislation to receive unemployment benefit or sickness benefit under sickness insurance shall be treated as if it were a period during which contributions were credited to him as an employed person under the legislation of the United Kingdom.\n(4) For the purpose of any claim to receive unemployment benefit made under German legislation, any period during which contributions were paid by the person concerned as an employed person under the legislation of the United Kingdom shall be treated as if it were a period of compulsorily insurable employment completed under German legislation.\n(5) For the purpose of applying the provisions of paragraphs (1), (2)(a), (2)(c), (3)(b) and (4) of this Article “ unemployment benefit” means, in relation to the United Kingdom, unemployment benefit other than additional days of such benefit, as defined in the legislation of the United Kingdom, and, in relation to the Federal Republic, unemployment benefit as defined in German legislation, other than such benefit which is awarded by virtue of a period of employment which exceeded fifty-two weeks.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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