{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-malta-order-1996/schedule/paragraph-wrapper17",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1996/1927",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Malta) Order 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-malta-order-1996",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/wrapper17",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Article 16 Invalidity Benefit under the legislation of Malta",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraphs (2) to (6), Articles 13 to 15 shall also apply, with such modifications as the differing nature of the benefits shall require, to invalidity benefit payable under the legislation of Malta.\n(2) Where a person who is in Malta and who does not satisfy the relevant contribution conditions for sickness benefit or invalidity benefit in full using contributions under the legislation of Malta only, the competent authority of Malta may use contributions from any part of the United Kingdom to satisfy those conditions and shall award the appropriate amount of Maltese sickness or invalidity benefit for the first fifty-two weeks of incapacity. Thereafter, if invalidity benefit under the legislation of the United Kingdom is payable, invalidity benefit under the legislation of Malta will be payable using contributions under the legislation of Malta only.\n(3) Where a person to whom paragraph (2) applies:\n(a) would have been entitled to receive invalidity benefit under the legislation of Malta, without recourse to this Convention after the first fifty-two weeks of incapacity; and\n(b) is entitled to receive both invalidity benefit under the legislation of Great Britain, Northern Ireland or the Isle of Man in accordance with paragraph (5) of Article 13, or invalidity benefit under the legislation of Guernsey in accordance with paragraph (3) (b) of Article 14, and invalidity benefit under the legislation of Malta, whether or not under this Convention, and the sum of these two benefits is less than the amount of invalidity benefit to which the person would otherwise have been entitled under (a);\nthe competent authority of Malta shall calculate the difference between the amounts of benefit calculated in accordance with sub-paragraphs (a) and (b), on the date that entitlement to invalidity benefit first arose after the first fifty-two weeks of incapacity, and shall pay that amount in addition to the invalidity benefit payable. The additional sum will remain in payment under the same conditions as the invalidity benefit and subject to the equivalent increases in amount, as appropriate.\n(4) A person in the territory of Great Britain, Northern Ireland or the Isle of Man or Guernsey, who is entitled to sickness benefit under the legislation of Great Britain, Northern Ireland or the Isle of Man or Guernsey using contributions under the legislation of Malta in accordance with paragraph (1) of Article 12, shall not be entitled also to an invalidity benefit under the legislation of Malta. If invalidity benefit under the legislation of Great Britain, Northern Ireland or the Isle of Man or Guernsey is payable subsequently, invalidity benefit under the legislation of Malta shall be payable using contributions under the legislation of Malta only.\n(5) Where all the insurance periods completed by a person under the legislation of Malta amount to less than fifty weeks, those periods shall be treated as if they had been completed under the legislation of the United Kingdom in accordance with Article 15(2).\n(6) For the purpose of applying Articles 13 to 15 no account shall be taken under the legislation of Malta of any contributions paid or credited under the legislation of the United Kingdom for any period before 2nd February 1965.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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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."
}