The Family Allowances, National Insurance and Industrial Injuries (European Interim Agreement) Order 1959

Article 3

1.  Any agreement relating to the laws and regulations referred to in Article 1 which has been or may be concluded by any two or more of the Contracting Parties shall, subject to the provisions of Article 9, apply to a national of any other of the Contracting Parties as if he were a national of one of the former Parties insofar as it provides, in relation to those laws and regulations—

(a) for determining under which laws and regulations a person should be insured;

(b) for maintaining acquired rights and rights in course of acquisition and, in particular, for adding together insurance periods and equivalent periods for the purpose of establishing the right to receive benefit and calculating the amount of benefit due;

(c) for paying benefit to persons residing in the territory of anyone of the Parties to such agreement;

(d) for supplementing and administering the provisions of such agreement referred to in this paragraph.

2.  The provisions of paragraph 1 of this Article shall not apply to any provision of the said agreement which concerns benefits provided under a non-contributory scheme unless the national concerned has resided for six months in the territory of the Contracting Party under whose laws and regulations he claims benefit.