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Article 9
1. Invalidity pensions shall be awarded, in accordance with the laws and
regulations applying to the person concerned at the time of the accident or when
it is first medically certified that he is suffering from an illness leading to invalidity,
by the institution which is competent under such laws and regulations.
2. Nevertheless, if, at the beginning of the calendar quarter during which
the illness occurred, the invalid person had not been insured for at least one
year under the laws and regulations referred to in paragraph 1, and if, having
regard to the provisions of Article 8, he fulfils the conditions required for entitlement
to an invalidity pension under the laws and regulations of another contracting
country under the scheme of which he was previously insured, he shall
receive from the competent institution of such other country the invalidity
pension provided by the laws and regulations of that country. If, by application
of these provisions, an insured person is entitled to a pension under the laws
and regulations of two or more contracting countries other than the one to the
laws and regulations of which paragraph 1 refers, the laws and regulations under
which he was last insured shall alone apply.
3. The provisions of paragraph 2 above shall not apply where the invalidity
is the result of an accident.
4. The invalidity pension shall be entirely at the cost of the institution
referred to in paragraphs 1 or 2 above.
5. The provisions of paragraphs 1, 2, 3 and 4 of this Article may be derogated
from by agreements between two or more contracting countries and by
virtue of which invalidity pensions, or parts of pensions, to be charged to the
institutions of each of these countries shall be determined in accordance with the
provisions of Article 11 of the present Agreement.
Article 10
1. An invalidity pension shall be converted, if the case arises, into an
old-age pension in accordance with the conditions provided by the laws and
regulations under which it has been awarded. In case of such conversion, the
provisions of Section 3 below shall apply.
2. A German invalidity pension shall be deemed in all cases to be an oldage
pension as from age 65 for the purposes of this Agreement.
Section 3. Old-Age and Death (Pensions)
Article 11
1. In the case of persons who have been insured successively or alternately
under the schemes of two or more contracting countries, periods spent under
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