①This Act comes into effect on the date of promulgation; provided, however, that the provisions amending Article 81, paragraph (5), item (iv) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act in Article 1 and the provisions amending Article 59, paragraph (5), item (iii) of the Mariners Insurance Act in Article 2 come into effect on January 1, 1970.

②The following provisions apply from November 1, 1969:

①With regard to the standardized remuneration of a person who acquired the status of an insured before November 1, 1969 and has continuously held the status of an insured up to that day (excluding a person who holds the status of a class 4 insured person and a person whose standardized remuneration is to be revised from that month), among those persons whose standardized monthly amount of remuneration in October of that year is 7,000 yen, 8,000 yen or 9,000 yen, or 60,000 yen (excluding a person whose monthly amount of remuneration is less than 62,000 yen), the prefectural governor revises the standardized remuneration by deeming the monthly amount of remuneration that was the basis of that standardized monthly amount of remuneration to be the monthly amount of remuneration that is the basis of the standardized remuneration under the provisions of Article 20 of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act as amended by this Act.

②The standardized remuneration revised pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph is the standardized remuneration for each month from November 1969 to September 1970.

③Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 26 of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act, the standardized monthly amount of remuneration on or after January 1970 of a class 4 insured person whose standardized monthly amount of remuneration is less than 10,000 yen is 10,000 yen.

In the case where the average standardized monthly amount of remuneration is calculated, with respect to a person who was an insured covered by employees' pension insurance before November 1, 1969, for the insurance benefits paid to a person who has come to have the right to receive insurance benefits on or after that day, if any of the standardized monthly amounts of remuneration forming the basis of that calculation is less than 10,000 yen, that amount is to be 10,000 yen.

①With regard to a person who was an insured before October 1, 1957 and whose period of having been an insured from that day to July 31, 1976 (including a period deemed to be a period of having been an insured covered by employees' pension insurance pursuant to the provisions of Article 47, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the National Pension Act, etc. (Act No. 34 of 1985; hereinafter referred to as the "1985 Amendment Act"), Article 5, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the Employees' Pension Insurance Act, etc. (Act No. 82 of 1996) or Article 6 of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act to Abolish, etc. the Mutual Aid Association Act for Employees of Agricultural, Forestry and Fishery Organizations, etc. for the Purpose of Integrating the Employees' Pension Insurance System and the Mutual Aid Association System for Employees of Agricultural, Forestry and Fishery Organizations (Act No. 101 of 2001); the same applies hereinafter in this Article) is three years or more (where there is a period of having been an insured that, pursuant to the provisions of Article 51 of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act, is not used as the basis for calculating the amount of an employees' disability pension, a person for whom the period excluding that period is three years or more), when the pension amount is calculated for the insurance benefits paid to a person who has come to have the right to receive insurance benefits on or after November 1, 1969 (limited to a person prescribed in Article 20, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the National Pension Act, etc. (Act No. 18 of 2000; hereinafter in this Article referred to as the "2000 Amendment Act"); the same applies in the following paragraph), notwithstanding the provisions of Article 20, paragraph (1), item (i) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 2000 Amendment Act, the period of having been an insured before October 1, 1957 is not used as the basis for calculating the average standardized monthly amount of remuneration (meaning the average standardized monthly amount of remuneration prescribed in Article 43, paragraph (1) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act prior to its amendment by the provisions of Article 6 of the 2000 Amendment Act; the same applies in the following paragraph).

②With regard to a person whose period of having been an insured from October 1, 1957 to July 31, 1976 is less than three years and whose period of having been an insured up to that day is three years or more, when the pension amount is calculated for the insurance benefits paid to a person who has come to have the right to receive insurance benefits on or after November 1, 1969, notwithstanding the provisions of Article 20, paragraph (1), item (i) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 2000 Amendment Act, the periods of having been an insured up to July 31, 1976 other than the most recent three years are not used as the basis for calculating the average standardized monthly amount of remuneration.

With regard to the pension insurance benefits paid to a person who, on November 1, 1969, actually has the right to receive pension insurance benefits the amount of which was calculated pursuant to the provisions of Chapter III of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act, the amount is the amount calculated pursuant to the provisions of that Chapter as amended by this Act and the provisions of Article 3 of the Supplementary Provisions through the preceding Article.

①Among persons who, on November 1, 1969, actually have the right to receive insurance benefits that follow the example of the previous disability pension paid pursuant to the provisions of Article 16, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act, for the disability pension of a person who is in a state of disablement of grade 1 specified in Appended Table 1 of that Act, the amount (excluding the amount of benefits equivalent to the previous additional allowance) is 150,000 yen, and for the disability pension of any other person, the amount (excluding the amount of benefits equivalent to the previous additional allowance) is 120,000 yen.

②The Director-General of the Social Insurance Agency may examine the degree of disablement of a person who has the right to receive the disability pension prescribed in the preceding paragraph and, if the Director-General finds that the degree of disablement of a person whose pension amount (excluding the amount of benefits equivalent to the previous additional allowance; the same applies in this paragraph and the following paragraph) is 150,000 yen does not fall under grade 1 specified in Appended Table 1 of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act, or finds that the degree of disablement of a person whose pension amount is 120,000 yen falls under grade 1 specified in that Appended Table, revise the amount of that person's pension to 120,000 yen or 150,000 yen, respectively.

③A person whose pension amount is 120,000 yen may request the Director-General of the Social Insurance Agency to revise the amount of that disability pension on the grounds that the degree of disablement has come to fall under grade 1 specified in Appended Table 1 of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act.

④The provisions of Article 52, paragraphs (3) and (4) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act apply mutatis mutandis to the request under the preceding paragraph or the revision of the pension amount pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1).

①With regard to the insurance benefits of a person who, on November 1, 1969, actually has the right to receive insurance benefits that follow the example of the previous pension for surviving family, widow's pension, widower's pension or orphan's pension paid pursuant to the provisions of Article 16, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act, the amount (excluding the amount of benefits equivalent to the previous additional allowance or increment) is 96,000 yen.

②The provisions of the preceding paragraph apply mutatis mutandis to the insurance benefits of a person who has come to have, on or after November 1, 1969, the right to receive insurance benefits that follow the example of the previous pension for surviving family, widow's pension, widower's pension or orphan's pension paid pursuant to the provisions of Article 16, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act.

With regard to insurance benefits under the provisions of Article 16, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act, the amount of benefits equivalent to the previous additional allowance or increment is, notwithstanding the provisions of that paragraph, 12,000 yen for a spouse and 4,800 yen per child; provided, however, that for one of those children it is 7,200 yen.

With regard to the amount of insurance benefits prescribed in Articles 6 through 8 of the Supplementary Provisions (including the amount of benefits equivalent to the additional allowance or increment prescribed in the preceding Article) for months up to and including October 1969, and the amounts of disability allowances and withdrawal allowances under employees' pension insurance that have not yet been paid as of November 1 of that year, the provisions then in force continue to govern.

①With regard to the two or more insurance benefits of a person who, on the day before the date of promulgation of this Act, actually has the right to receive two or more pension insurance benefits, the provisions then in force continue to govern, notwithstanding the provisions of Article 38 of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act as amended by this Act.

②Pension insurance benefits selected pursuant to the provisions of Article 38 of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act prior to its amendment by this Act are deemed to be pension insurance benefits selected pursuant to the provisions of Article 38 of that Act as amended by this Act.

With regard to a person who did not have the right to receive an old-age pension or aggregated old-age pension before November 1, 1969 and who, on that day, comes to have the right to receive an old-age pension under Article 42, paragraph (1) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act or an aggregated old-age pension under Article 46-3 of that Act by the application of the provisions of Article 28-2 of the Supplementary Provisions of that Act as amended by this Act, the old-age pension or aggregated old-age pension prescribed in those provisions is paid to that person.

①The amount of insurance premiums that a class 4 insured person who, before January 1, 1970, prepaid insurance premiums for a period on or after that day is to additionally pay for each month of the period covered by the prepayment is, for each month of that period, the amount obtained by deducting, from the amount of insurance premiums that would be payable under the provisions of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act as amended by this Act if the person had not made the prepayment, the amount of insurance premiums that would be payable if the provisions of that Act prior to its amendment by this Act were applied.

②In the case where the amount of an employees' old-age pension is calculated for a person who has the period prescribed in the preceding paragraph, if there is a month for which insurance premiums were not paid in the amount prescribed in that paragraph, the amount specified in Article 43 of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act (including as applied pursuant to Article 44, paragraph (1) of that Act) or Article 9, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of that Act is, notwithstanding those provisions, the amount obtained by deducting from the amount prescribed in those provisions the amount obtained by multiplying 150 yen by the number of months of the insured period for the month for which the insurance premiums were not paid.

③The provisions of the preceding paragraph apply mutatis mutandis to a person who has the period prescribed in Article 32, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions prior to their amendment by the provisions of Article 108 of the Supplementary Provisions of the 1985 Amendment Act (hereinafter in this paragraph referred to as the "supplementary provisions before the amendment"), in the case where, when the amount of an employees' old-age pension is calculated on the basis of the portion of that period that is deemed, pursuant to the provisions of Article 47, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of that Act, to be a period of having been an insured covered by employees' pension insurance, there is a month for which insurance premiums were not paid in the amount prescribed in Article 32, paragraph (1) of the supplementary provisions before the amendment.

With regard to a person whose combined period of the insured period that is a period subject to aggregation before April 1, 1961 and the insured period on or after that day is ten years or more and who has not satisfied the insured period necessary to receive an old-age pension, and who, on November 1, 1969, is not an insured aged 60 or older or is an insured aged 65 or older on that day, an aggregated old-age pension under Article 46-3, paragraph (1) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act is paid to that person from November 1969, notwithstanding the provisions of Article 8, paragraph (1) or (2) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending Related Acts to Establish the Aggregated Pension System as amended by the provisions of the preceding Article.