The Social Security (Australia) Order (Northern Ireland) 1992

ARTICLE 4 Age Pensions

(1) Where a person is qualified to receive an age pension under the legislation of Australia otherwise than by virtue of the provisions of this Agreement, or the former Agreement, that pension shall be payable and the provisions of this Article shall not apply under that legislation.

(2) For the purpose of any claim by a person to receive an age pension under the legislation of Australia, that person shall be treated as an Australian resident for any period prior to that person’s last arrival in Australia for which:

(a) that person; or

(b) if that person is a woman who is or has been married, her husband,

paid contributions, or had earnings or contributions credited, under the legislation of the United Kingdom.

(3) For the purpose of applying paragraph (2), any period during which the person (being a woman) and her husband both paid contributions or had earnings or contributions credited to them shall be counted only once.

(4) For the purpose of applying paragraph (2), a period when the person or, if the person is a woman who is or has been married, her husband paid contributions or had earnings or contributions credited, which coincided with a period in which that person was an Australian resident, shall be counted only once.

(5) A person who receives from Australia a wife’s pension or a spouse carer’s pension by virtue of the fact that the spouse of that person receives an age pension by virtue of this Article, shall, for the purpose of this Agreement, be deemed to receive that pension by virtue of this Agreement.