Where a competent authority or competent institution of one Party has made a payment of any benefit to a person for any period, or event, in advance of the period, or event, to which it relates or has paid him any benefit for a period, or event, whether by virtue of this Convention or otherwise, and the competent authority or the competent institution of the other Party afterwards decides that the person is entitled to benefit for that period, or event, under its legislation, the competent authority or the competent institution of the latter Party, at the request of the competent authority or the competent institution of the former Party, shall deduct from the benefit due for that period, or event, under its legislation any overpayment which, by virtue of this Convention, results from the advance payment of benefit, or from the benefit paid, by the competent authority or the competent institution of the former Party and shall, where appropriate, transmit this sum to the competent authority or the competent institution of the former Party.

When the competent authority or the competent institution of a Party has paid to a recipient of benefits a sum in excess of that to which he is entitled that competent authority or competent institution may, within the conditions and limits laid down by the legislation which it administers, request the competent authority or the competent institution of any other Party responsible for the payment of benefits to that recipient to deduct the amount overpaid from the amounts which it pays to the said recipient. The latter competent authority or competent institution shall make the deduction under the conditions and within the limits provided for such setting-off by the legislation which it administers, as if the sums had been overpaid by itself, and shall transfer the amounts deducted to the creditor authority or institution.

Where a person has received social assistance under the legislation of one Party for a period for which that person subsequently becomes entitled to any benefit under the legislation of the other Party, the competent authority or the competent institution of the latter Party, at the request of and on behalf of the competent authority or the competent institution of the former Party, shall withhold the benefit due for that period and shall transmit the amount withheld to the competent authority or the competent institution of the former Party. The competent authority or the competent institution of the former Party shall deduct from the benefit due under the legislation of the other Party the amount by which the social assistance paid exceeded what would have been paid had the benefit under the legislation of the latter Party been paid before the amount of social assistance was determined. Any benefit not so deducted shall be transmitted to the person.

The competent authorities of the two Parties shall establish an administrative agreement necessary for the application of this Convention.

The competent authorities of the two Parties shall communicate to each other, as soon as possible, all information about the measures taken by them for the application of this Convention or about changes in their national legislation in so far as these changes affect the application of this Convention.

The competent authorities of the two Parties shall establish liaison offices for the purpose of facilitating the implementation of this Convention.

The competent authorities or the competent institutions of the two Parties shall assist one another on any matter relating to the application of this Convention as if the matter were one affecting the application of their own legislation. This assistance shall be free of charge.

Where any benefit is payable under the legislation of one Party to a person in the territory of the other Party, arrangements for the payment may be made by the competent authority or the competent institution of the latter Party, at the request of the competent authority or the competent institution of the former Party, and the former Party shall reimburse the latter Party.

Where a person who is in the territory of one Party has claimed, or is receiving, benefit under the legislation of the other Party and a medical examination is necessary, the competent authority or the competent institution of the former Party, at the request of the competent authority or the competent institution of the latter Party, shall arrange for this examination. The cost of such examination shall be met by the competent authority or the competent institution of the former Party. The competent authority or the competent institution retains, however, the competency to call on the person in question for medical examination. In case the Netherlands' competent institution deems it necessary that certain medical tests in which it has an exclusive interest are carried out in the territory of the other Party, the procedure to be applied will be such as is provided for in the Netherlands' legislation.

A medical board appointed by the competent institution of the Netherlands, at the request of the competent authority of Guernsey, shall be treated as a medical board for determination of the disablement questions under the legislation of Guernsey.

Where the legislation of one Party provides that any certificate or other document which is submitted under the legislation of that Party shall be exempt, wholly or partly, from any taxes, legal dues, consular fees or administrative charges, that exemption shall apply to any certificate or other document which is submitted under the legislation of the other Party or in accordance with this Convention.

All statements, documents and certificates of any kind required to be produced for the purposes of this Convention shall be exempt from authentication by diplomatic or consular authorities.

No certificate, document or statement of any kind written in an official language of either Party shall be rejected on the ground that it is written in a foreign language.

Unless disclosure is required under the legislation of a Party, any information about an individual which is sent in accordance with, and for the purposes of, this Convention to that Party by another Party is confidential and shall be used only for the purpose of implementing this Convention and the legislation to which this Convention applies.

Any claim or appeal which should, for the purposes of the legislation of one Party, have been submitted within a prescribed period to the competent authority or the competent institution of that Party, shall be treated as if it had been submitted to that competent authority or competent institution if it is submitted within the same period to the competent authority or competent institution of the other Party.

Any claim to benefit submitted under the legislation of one Party shall also be deemed to be a claim to the corresponding benefit under the legislation of the other Party in so far as this corresponding benefit is payable in accordance with this Convention.

Payment of any benefit in accordance with this Convention may be made in the currency of the Party whose competent authority or competent institution makes the payment and any such payment shall constitute a full discharge of the obligation in respect of which payment has been made.

Where the competent authority or the competent institution of one Party has made a payment of benefit on behalf of the competent authority or the competent institution of the other Party in accordance with Article 28 (5), any reimbursement of the amounts paid by the competent authority or the competent institution of the former Party shall be in the currency of the latter Party.

Where a person in the territory of one Party is receiving benefit under the legislation of the other Party, it shall be payable by whatever method the competent authority or the competent institution of the latter Party deems appropriate.

The competent authorities of the Parties to this Convention shall make all reasonable efforts to resolve through agreement between them any dispute about its interpretation or application.

The decision of the arbitration tribunal, which shall be final and binding on both Parties, shall be by majority vote. The arbitration tribunal shall determine its own rules of procedure, and its costs shall be borne equally by the two Parties.