The provisions of this Act come into effect on the dates specified in the following items, according to the categories set forth in those items:

With regard to the amount of pension insurance benefits under the Employees' Pension Insurance Act for months up to and including July 1976, the provisions then in force continue to govern.

①With regard to the standardized remuneration of a person who acquired the status of an insured covered by employees' pension insurance before August 1, 1976 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 July of that year is 28,000 yen or less, or 200,000 yen (excluding a person whose monthly amount of remuneration that was the basis of that standardized monthly amount of remuneration is less than 210,000 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 (or, where the person is an insured covered by health insurance, the monthly amount of remuneration that was the basis of the person's standardized remuneration for that month under the Health Insurance Act (Act No. 70 of 1922)) 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 the provisions of Article 1.

②The standardized remuneration revised pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph is the standardized remuneration for August and September 1976.

③Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 26 of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act, the standardized monthly amount of remuneration on or after August 1976 of a class 4 insured person under employees' pension insurance whose standardized monthly amount of remuneration is less than 30,000 yen is 30,000 yen.

The provisions of Article 65 of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act as amended by the provisions of Article 10 do not apply to the pension for surviving family of a person who, on the day before the date of enforcement of the provisions of Article 10, has the right to receive a pension for surviving family under that Act.

①A person prescribed in Article 7, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending Related Acts to Establish the Aggregated Pension System (Act No. 182 of 1961) is deemed, for the application of the provisions of Article 68-3 of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act, to fall under Article 46-3, item (i), (a) of that Act.

②When a person prescribed in Article 8, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending Related Acts to Establish the Aggregated Pension System dies, the person is deemed to fall under the provisions of Article 68-3 of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act, and the aggregated pension for surviving family under that Article is paid to the person's surviving family.

With regard to a person who would come to acquire the right to receive a disability pension before the date of enforcement of the provisions of Article 13, if the provisions of Article 47, paragraph (1) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act as amended by the provisions of Article 13 had been applied from the day one year and six months before that date of enforcement, a disability pension under Article 47, paragraph (1) of that Act is paid from the month that includes the date of enforcement of the provisions of Article 13.

Beyond what is provided for in these Supplementary Provisions, transitional measures necessary incidental to the enforcement of this Act are specified by Cabinet Order.

①Among persons prescribed in Article 4 of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the Employees' Pension Insurance Act and the Mariners Insurance Act (Act No. 78 of 1969; hereinafter referred to as "Act No. 78 as amended") as amended by the provisions of Article 9 of the Act Partially Amending the National Pension Act, etc. (Act No. 18 of 2000; hereinafter in this paragraph referred to as the "2000 Amendment Act"), the average standardized monthly amount of remuneration under the Employees' Pension Insurance Act (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 (hereinafter in this paragraph referred to as "Article 43, paragraph (1) before the amendment"), and excluding the average standardized monthly amount of remuneration prescribed in Article 70, paragraph (1) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act prior to its amendment by the provisions of Article 3 of the Act Partially Amending the National Pension Act, etc. (Act No. 34 of 1985), in respect of which the provisions then in force continue to govern pursuant to Article 132, paragraph (2) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act, Article 29, paragraph (3) of the Supplementary Provisions of that Act and Article 78, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the National Pension Act, etc. (Act No. 34 of 1985)) of a person who has a period of having been an insured prescribed in item (ii) is, notwithstanding Article 20, paragraph (1), item (i) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 2000 Amendment Act and Article 43, paragraph (1) before the amendment, the amount obtained by dividing the total of the amounts set forth below by the number of months of the person's insured period under employees' pension insurance:

②For the application of the preceding paragraph to a person prescribed in Article 4, paragraph (1) or (2) of the Supplementary Provisions of Act No. 78 who has a period of having been an insured under Mariners Insurance under the Mariners Insurance Act prior to its amendment by the provisions of Article 5 of the Act Partially Amending the National Pension Act, etc. that was 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 that Act, in the part of paragraph (1) other than the items, the phrase "Article 70, paragraph (1) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act" is deemed to be replaced with "Article 70, paragraph (1) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act and Article 47 of the Mariners Insurance Act prior to its amendment by the provisions of Article 5 of the Act Partially Amending the National Pension Act, etc., in respect of which the provisions then in force continue to govern pursuant to the provisions of Article 87, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of that Act", and the phrase "insured period" is deemed to be replaced with "insured period (including that relating to 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.; the same applies hereinafter in this Article)".

③For the application of paragraph (1) to a person prescribed in Article 4, paragraph (1) or (2) of the Supplementary Provisions of Act No. 78 who has a period deemed to be a period of having been an insured covered by employees' pension insurance pursuant to the provisions of Article 5, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the Employees' Pension Insurance Act, etc. (Act No. 82 of 1996), in the part of paragraph (1) other than the items, the phrase "insured period" is deemed to be replaced with "insured period (including that relating to a period deemed to be a period of having been an insured covered by employees' pension insurance pursuant to the provisions of Article 5, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the Employees' Pension Insurance Act, etc. (Act No. 82 of 1996); the same applies hereinafter in this Article)".

④For the application of paragraph (1) to a person prescribed in Article 4, paragraph (1) or (2) of the Supplementary Provisions of Act No. 78 who has a period deemed to be a period of having been an insured covered by employees' pension insurance pursuant to the provisions of 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), in the part of paragraph (1) other than the items, the phrase "insured period" is deemed to be replaced with "insured period (including that relating to a period deemed to be a period of having been an insured covered by employees' pension insurance pursuant to the provisions of 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)".