If, in compiling the current budget status and projections report pursuant to the provisions of Article 2-4, paragraph (1), it is projected not to be possible, over the course of the period subject to budget balancing, to maintain balance in the reserve funds being retained by the government or the implementing organizations in the budget for employees' pension insurance services as the reserve funds that are necessary for ensuring that no obstacles will arise in the payment of insurance benefits at the end of the period subject to budget balancing (meaning the reserve funds in the employees' pension section of the pension special account and the implementing organization reserves provided for in Article 79-2 ), the government is to adjust the amount of insurance benefits, and, by Cabinet Order, is to specify the fiscal year that will begin the period during which the amount of insurance benefits is subject to that adjustment (hereinafter referred to as the "term under adjustment").
If, in the current budget status and projections report, it is found to be no longer necessary to implement the adjustment under the preceding paragraph, the government, by Cabinet Order, is to specify the fiscal year that will end the term under adjustment.
財政の現況及び見通しにおいて、前項の調整を行う必要がなくなつたと認められるときは、政令で、調整期間の終了年度を定めるものとする。
If the government is compiling the current budget status and projections report during a term under adjustment, it must also compile a projection on the fiscal year in which the term under adjustment will end, and must publicly announce these together.
政府は、調整期間において財政の現況及び見通しを作成するときは、調整期間の終了年度の見通しについても作成し、併せて、これを公表しなければならない。