LEAGUE OF NATIONS - United Nations Treaty Collection

218 Socite' des Nations - Recuei des Traits. 1931
ce qui concerne l'exemption ou la r~duction du
timbre ou des taxes, valent dans la mgme
mesure pour l'application de l'assurance sociale
de l'autre Etat.
B. DISPOSITIONS SPI CIALES
I. ASSURANCE-MALADIE.
Article 8.
i. Lorsque, d'apr~s la l6gislation nationale,
l'octroi de prestations en dehors du territoire
national est subordonn6 l'assentiment de
l'institution d'assurance, cet assentiment n'est
pas n~cessaire lorsque l'assur6 s~journe dans une
r6gion fronti~re voisine du district (ressort) de
l'institution d'assurance comp~tente.
2. L'assur6 qui tombe malade dans l'autre
Etat, en dehors de la region frontire voisine
(par. I-), a droit aux prestations de l'assurancemiladie
dont est tenue envers lui l'institution
d'assurance aupr~s de laquelle il est inscrit,
aussi longtemps que son 6tat ne lui permet pas
de retourner dans le territoire de l'Etat oii ladite
institution d'assurance a son si~ge.
3. La question de savoir si les prestations
doivent ftre accordfes par l'institution d'assurance
directement ou, en premier lieu, par l'employeur
est du ressort de la rfglementation
nationale.
Article 9.
i. Si l'assur6 sfjourne dans la r6gion fronti~re,
l'institution d'assurance tenue aux prestations
peut accorder celles-ci elle-m~me ou
solliciter une institution d'assurance-maladie
de l'autre Etat de les accorder. L'institution
d'assurance ainsi sollicit~e doit accorder les
prestations conformfment aux prescriptions
valables pour l'institution d'assurance qui la
sollicite. L'institution d'assurance sollicit~e a
droit au remboursement de ses dpenses effectives
; en ce qui concerne les dfpenses au titre
des prestations en nature, sont applicables, sans
pr6juluce des dispositions de l'article io, les
bardms que l'institution d'assurance sollicit~e
applique ses propres ayants droits. Le paragraphe
2 de l'article 5 est applicable par ana-
system in respect of exemptions or reductions
in connection with stamp duty or legal fees
shall apply in the same manner to the administration
of the social insurance system of the
other State.
B. SPECIAL PROVISIONS.
I. SICKNESS INSURANCE.
Article 8.
i. If in accordance with national legislation
the grant of benefits outside the national
tarritory is subject to the consent of the
insurance carrier, such consent shall not be
necessary where the insured person resides in
a frontier district adjacent to the area of jurisdiction
of the competent insurance carrier.
2. If an insured person falls ill in the other
State outside the said adjacent frontier district
(No. i) he shall be entitled to the sick benefit
due to him from his insurance carrier so long
as he is unable, on account of his condition,
to return to the territory of the State in which
his insurance carrier has its head office.
3. The national regulations of each State
shall decide whether the benefits are to be
granted directly by the insurance carrier or
in the first instance by the employer.
Article 9.
i. If the insured person resides in the
frontier district, the insurance carrier liable
to pay benefit may either pay the benefit
itself or request a sickness insurance carrier
of the other State to pay the benefit. iThe
latter insurance carrier shall pay the benefit
in accordance with the rules which are applicable
to the insurance carrier making the request.
The moneys actually expended by the insurance
carrier to which the request was made shall
be refunded; with regard to the repayment
of the expediture on benefit in kind the scales
employed with regard to its own insured persons
by the insurance carrier to which the request
was made shall apply, without prejudice to
the provisions of Article io. The provisions
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