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  1. Proclamation Declaring the Consolidated Agreements on Social Security Between Canada and the United Kingdom in Force December 1, 1995 - SI/95-118 (SCHEDULE : To the Letter of 11 October 1994 from the High Commissioner for the United Kingdom in Canada to the Minister of Employment and Immigration)
    Proclamation Declaring the Consolidated Agreements on Social Security Between Canada and the United Kingdom in Force December 1, 1995

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    • (1) For the purposes of these arrangements, except where the context otherwise requires:

    • (2) Other words and expressions which are used in these arrangements have the meanings respectively assigned to them in the applicable legislation.

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    • (3) The provisions of these arrangements shall apply, in relation to the United Kingdom, to:

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    • (4) Subject to the provisions of paragraphs (5) and (6), these arrangements shall apply also to any legislation which supersedes, replaces, amends, supplements or consolidates the legislation specified in paragraph (3).

    • (5) These arrangements shall apply, unless the Parties agree otherwise, only to benefits under the legislation specified in paragraph (3) at the date of coming into force of these arrangements and for which specific provision is made in these arrangements.

    • (6) These arrangements shall not apply to legislation on social security of the Institutions of the European Community or to any convention on social security which either Party has concluded with a third party or to any laws or regulations which amend the legislation specified in paragraph (3) for the purpose of giving effect to such a convention, but shall not prevent either Party taking into account under its legislation the provisions of any other convention which that Party has concluded with a third party.

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    • (8) Nothing in paragraph (7) shall diminish any right which a person has, apart from these arrangements, to receive unemployment benefit under the legislation of the United Kingdom.

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    • (9) Subject to the provisions of paragraphs (10) and (12) to (14):

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      • (d) any person who has been awarded a United Kingdom retirement pension under the former exchanges of letters, which commenced before 1 July 1977 and who on or after 1 July 1977 is in receipt of a Canadian old age security pension solely under the Old Age Security Act shall, with effect from 15 November 1977 or the first day of payment of the old age security pension, whichever is later, have his weekly retirement pension reduced by a sum equal to the weekly rate of his old age security pension. The amount of this reduction shall be reviewed each year from the week when the retirement pension is increased by any uprating order. The amount of reduction shall be a sum equal to the weekly rate of the old age security pension for the week in which the uprating falls. These provisions shall not reduce the amount of any United Kingdom retirement pension to less than the amount which would otherwise have been payable without reliance on the former exchanges of letters.

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      • (a) Where required for the application of these arrangements, the Government of Canada, at the request of the Government of the United Kingdom, shall provide information as to claimants in the United Kingdom in receipt of benefits under the Old Age Security Act of Canada.

      • (b) 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 these arrangements to that Party by the other Party is confidential and shall be used only for the purpose of implementing these arrangements and the legislation to which these arrangements apply.

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    • (17) The two Parties shall assist one another on any matter relating to the application of these arrangements as if the matter were one affecting the application of their own legislation.


  2. Proclamation Declaring the Consolidated Agreements on Social Security Between Canada and the United Kingdom in Force December 1, 1995 - SI/95-118
    Proclamation Declaring the Consolidated Agreements on Social Security Between Canada and the United Kingdom in Force December 1, 1995

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    To All to whom these Presents shall come or whom the same may in anyway concern,

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    Whereas, by Order in Council P.C. 1995-139 of January 31, 1995, the Governor in Council declared that the Consolidated Arrangements on Social Security agreed to in letters dated October 11 and 18, 1994 between Canada and the United Kingdom shall enter into force on a date to be specified in Notes exchanged between the two governments notifying each other that all matters as are necessary to give effect to these Consolidated Arrangements have been finalized;

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    Of All Which Our Loving Subjects and all others whom these Presents may concern are hereby required to take notice and to govern themselves accordingly.

    In Testimony Whereof, We have caused these Our Letters to be made Patent and the Great Seal of Canada to be hereunto affixed. Witness: Our Right Trusty and Well-beloved Roméo A. LeBlanc, a Member of Our Privy Council for Canada, Chancellor and Principal Companion of Our Order of Canada, Chancellor and Commander of Our Order of Military Merit, Governor General and Commander-in-Chief of Canada.

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