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1. Survivors' benefit shall take the form of periodical payments calculated in accordance with the provisions of either Article 71 or Article 72.
2. Notwithstanding the provisions of the foregoing paragraph, periodical payments may be calculated in accordance with Article 73 by any Party whose legislation protects survivors with resident status, without making entitlement to benefit conditional on the completion of any qualifying period.
3. Where, however, surviving spouses do not satisfy the conditions of award prescribed in accordane with paragraphs 2 to 4 of Article 64 they shall be paid, under prescribed conditions, cash resettlement allowances, unless the Party in question has accepted the obligations embodied in Part IV and applies the provisions of sub-paragraph e of paragraph 3 of Article 20.
4. Surviving spouses shall also, where necessary and under prescribed conditions, be given facilities designed to assist their settlement in an occupation.
5. The benefits referred to in paragraph 1 of this article shall be secured at least:
a) to protected persons whose breadwinner completed, in accordance with prescribed rules, a period of fifteen years of contributions, occupational activity or residence, including any period considered as such; however, in the case of survivors' benefit awarded to a spouse, the latter's completion of a presribed period of residence may be deemd sufficient; or
b) to protected persons whose breadwinner, in accordane with prescribed rules, completed a period of thirty years of contributions, occupational activity or residence, including any period considered as such, where the period separating the contingency covered and a prescribed age is taken into account as a notional period for the purpose of calculating the benefit; or
c) where, in principle, the spouses and children of all economically active persons are protected, to protected persons whose breadwinner completed, in accordance with prescribed rules, a period of three years of contributions, on condition that the average yearly number, yearly number or yearly average amount of contributions paid in respect of the breadwinner in the course of the said breadwinner's working life reaches a prescribed figure.
6. Benefit, which may be reduced in proportion to the period of contribution, occupational activity or residence completed, shall be paid to protected persons whose breadwinner, under prescribed conditions, has completed a period shorter than those specified in the foregoing paragraph.
7. The requirements of paragraph 5 of this article shall be deemed to be complied with where a benefit calculated independently of the qualifying period but at a percentage often units less than that shown in the schedule appended to Part XI is guaranteed at least to protected persons whose breadwinner completed, in accordance with prescribed rules, a qualifying period not exceeding twelve months.