(1) The provisions of the present Convention shall apply—
(a) in relation to the United Kingdom, to—
(i) the National Insurance Act, 1946, the National Insurance (Isle of Man) Act, 1948, and the legislation in force before 5th July, 1948, which was replaced by those Acts, establishing insurance schemes in respect of unemployment, sickness, widowhood, orphanhood, old age and death and of the confinement of women, and
(ii) the National Insurance (Industrial Injuries) Act, 1946, and the National Insurance (Industrial Injuries) (Isle of Man) Act, 1948, establishing insurance schemes in respect of personal injury caused by industrial accident and of prescribed diseases and injuries due to employment;
(b) in relation to the Italian Republic, to the legislation providing for—
(i) general insurance in respect of invalidity, old age and survivors,
(ii) insurance against industrial accidents and occupational diseases,
(iii) insurance against sickness,
(iv) insurance against tuberculosis,
(v) the physical and economic welfare of women workers in respect of maternity in so far as that legislation concerns the payment of benefits in cash to such women for pregnancy and child-birth,
(vi) special schemes of insurance for prescribed classes of employed persons (namely, for the staff of undertakings which have a concession to operate a public transport or telephone service, for the staff of agencies which have a contract to collect taxes and for seamen), in so far as such schemes relate to the risks and the benefits covered by the legislation set out in items (i) to (v) of this sub-paragraph,
(vii) unemployment insurance.
(2) The present Convention shall also apply to any legislation which has amended or supplemented, or which may in future amend or supplement, the legislation referred to in paragraph (1) of this Article.
(3) The present Convention shall not apply to legislation which may be enacted by either Contracting Party, extending to new classes of persons the insurance schemes mentioned in this Article, unless the Contracting Parties make an agreement to that effect.