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Article 2
This Agreement shall apply to all existing or future laws and regulations
relating to-
(a) sickness, maternity and death (death grant);
(b) invalidity (pensions);
(c) old age and death (pensions);
(d) employment injury;
(e) unemployment; and
(f) family allowances.
Article 3
For the purposes of the laws and regulations referred to in Article 2, each
contracting country shall treat as its own nationals Rhine boatmen (and the
members of their families as defined by national laws and regulations), subject
to the provisions of Articles 4 and 13 below.
Article 4
1. Every Rhine boatman shall be subject, as regards the contingencies
referred to in Article 2 taken together, to the laws and regulations of only one
of the contracting countries.
2. The national laws and regulations applicable under the preceding
paragraph shall be those of the country in which the undertaking has its head
office. Where the undertaking has a branch or a permanent agency in one or
more of the contracting countries other than that in which it has its head office,
such branch or permanent agency may, by agreement among the administrative
authorities of these countries, be deemed to be an independent undertaking for
the purpose of determiming the national laws and regulations applicable.
3. If the owner operates his vessel himself and if his undertaking does not
have its head office in a contracting country, the laws and regulations applicable
to the members of the crew shall be those of the contracting country in which
the owner has his legal domicile. If the owner does not have his legal domicile
in a contracting country, the laws and regulations applicable shall be those of
the contracting country of which he is a national.
Article 5
When a Rhine boatman ceases to be liable to compulsory insurance, he
may apply for entry into any voluntary insurance in his country of residence,
subject to the same conditions and within the same period as an insured person
who ceases to be compulsorily insured in that country. The insurance periods
credited in the other contracting countries shall be taken into account for this
purpose in the same way as insurance periods credited under the laws and
regulations of the country of residence.
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