Article 2
1. In this Agreement, “the Principal Agreement” means the Agreement relating to Social Security made in 1977 between the Secretary of State for Social Services and the Department of Health and Social Services for Northern Ireland of the one part and the Lieutenant-Governor of the Isle of Man, with the advice and consent of the Isle of Man Board of Social Security, of the other part.
2. Article 2 of the Principal Agreement shall be amended as follows–
(a)the words “Subject to paragraph (5) of this Article,” shall be inserted at the beginning of paragraph (1) before the word “For” which shall itself be replaced by the word “for”;
(b)a new paragraph shall be added after paragraph (4) which shall read as follows–
“(5) There shall be excluded from this Agreement all or any of the provisions of the systems of social security established by the Acts relating to mobility allowance except that for the purposes of such of those provisions requiring the completion of periods of presence in the territory of the Act which relates to it–
(i)in relation to a person present and ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom, periods of residence and presence completed in the Isle of Man by that person before he attains the age of 65 shall be treated as if they were periods of presence completed during the corresponding period in the United Kingdom;
(ii)in relation to a person present and ordinarily resident in the Isle of Man, periods of residence and presence completed in the United Kingdom by that person before he attains the age of 65 shall be treated as if they were periods of presence completed during the corresponding period in the Isle of Man.”.