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178 United Nations - Treaty Series 1969
and the medical associations of the Federal Ldnder or the Austrian
Dental Technicians' Association on the basis of the general contract
pertaining to the Vorarlberg Regional Sickness Fund for Manual and
Salaried Workers as in force at present or hereafter shall apply."
(7) Paragraph 9 of the Final Protocol to the Convention is amended
to read as follows :
"9. Ad article 17 of the Convention
"Where, during the period prior to the entry into force of the Convention,
in implementing the sickness insurance scheme for pensioners
(or annuitants) and applicants for pensions (or annuities), the insurance
authorities of the two States made lump-sum payments to each other
or followed a procedure not consistent with the principles of article 14
of the First Convention referred to in article 53 of the Convention, the
status quo shall be maintained."
(8) The following sentence is added to paragraph 19 (b), 3 (b), of the
Final protocol to the Convention :
"The annuities insurance authority shall pay the annuity in respect
of the period beginning not earlier than 1 January 1967."
Article 2
In so far as the application of paragraph 19 of the Final Protocol to
the Convention requires that the conditions prescribed in article 24, paragraph
(2), of the First Convention referred to in article 53 of the Convention
should be met, any other nationality or statelessness shall be deemed to be
equivalent to German nationality.
Article 3
This Additional Convention shall also apply to Land Berlin, unless the
Government of the Federal Republic of Germany notifies the Federal Government
of the Republic of Austria to the contrary within three months after
the entry into force of this Additional Convention.
Article 4
(1) This Additional Convention shall be ratified. The instruments
of ratification shall be exchanged as soon as possible at Bonn.
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