①A person 70 years of age or older who is employed at an applicable place of business and does not hold the right to receive an employees' old-age pension, an old-age basic pension under the National Pension Act, or any other benefit in the form of a pension that has old age or retirement as the grounds for payment and that is specified by Cabinet Order (excluding a person who falls under any item of Article 12) may, notwithstanding the provisions of Article 9, make a request to an implementing organization and become an insured.

②When the request is accepted, a person who has made the request under the preceding paragraph acquires status as an insured on that day.

③If a person prescribed in the preceding paragraph is in arrears on the insurance premiums to be paid for the first time and does not pay those insurance premiums by the designated due date under the provisions of Article 86, paragraph (1), the person is deemed not to have become an insured under the provisions of paragraph (1); provided, however, that this does not apply if the employer has given the consent prescribed in the proviso to paragraph (7).

④An insured under the provisions of paragraph (1) may, at any time, make a request to an implementing organization and lose status as an insured.

⑤An insured under the provisions of paragraph (1) loses status as an insured on the day following the day on which the insured comes to fall under Article 14, item (i), item (ii), or item (iv), or any of the following items (or, if the insured acquires status as an insured again on the day of that fact, on that day).

⑥If an insured under the provisions of paragraph (1) is in arrears on insurance premiums (excluding the insurance premiums to be paid for the first time) and does not pay those insurance premiums by the designated due date under the provisions of Article 86, paragraph (1) (excluding the case where the employer has given the consent prescribed in the proviso to the following paragraph), the insured loses status as an insured, notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding paragraph, on the last day of the month preceding the month that includes the due date for payment of those insurance premiums prescribed in Article 83, paragraph (1).

⑦Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 82, paragraphs (1) and (2), an insured under the provisions of paragraph (1) is to bear the full amount of the insurance premiums and has the obligation to pay the insurance premiums that the insured bears, and the provisions of Article 84 do not apply to that person; provided, however, that this does not apply if the employer of that person has consented to bear half of those insurance premiums and to have the obligation to pay the insurance premiums of that insured and those that the employer bears itself.

⑧An employer may, with the consent of an insured under the provisions of paragraph (1), withdraw prospectively the consent prescribed in the proviso to the preceding paragraph.

⑨In addition to what is prescribed in paragraphs (1) through (6), matters necessary for the acquisition and loss of status as an insured under the provisions of paragraph (1) are specified by Cabinet Order.

⑩The provisions of paragraph (3) and paragraphs (6) through (8) do not apply to an employer of a category II EPI insured or a category III EPI insured.