SOCIAL SECURITY (INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS) ACT 1999

SCHEDULE 2 - ITALY  

Note: See section 5.

PART A AGREEMENT ON SOCIAL SECURITY BETWEEN AUSTRALIA AND THE REPUBLIC OF ITALY  

PART II - PROVISIONS RELATING TO BENEFITS  

ITALIAN BENEFITS  

ARTICLE 11   Totalisation of Periods of Contributions and Periods of Residence  

Totalisation for Italy

1.    
Where a person to whom this Agreement applies has accumulated:

(a) a period of credited contributions in Italy that is less than the period required to qualify that person under the legislation of Italy for a benefit; and

(b) a period of credited contributions equal to or greater than the minimum period identified for that benefit for that person in paragraph 2; and

(c) a period of Australian working life residence;

then that period of Australian working life residence shall be deemed, for the purposes of meeting any minimum qualifying period for that benefit set out in the legislation of Italy, to be a period of credited contributions.

2.    
The minimum period of credited contributions in Italy to be taken into account for the purposes of paragraph 1 shall be as follows:

(a) for old age pension: 1 year;

(b) for anticipated pension: 1 year;

(c) for seniority pension: 15 years;

(d) for invalidity allowance: 1 year;

(e) for inability pension: 1 year;

(f) for privileged invalidity pension allowance: 1 year;

(g) for privileged inability pension: 1 year; and

(h) for survivor ' s pension: 1 year.

3.    
For the purposes of voluntary insurance under the legislation of Italy, a period of credited contributions in Italy in relation to a person shall be combined, where necessary, with any period of Australian working life residence accumulated by that person, provided the first-mentioned period totals at least one year.

4.    
For all purposes of this Article, where a period of credited contributions and a period of Australian working life residence coincide, the period of coincidence shall be taken into account once only by Italy as a period of contributions.