①This Act comes into effect on the date of promulgation; provided, however, that the provisions in Article 1 amending Article 81, paragraph (5), item (iv) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act and the provisions in Article 2 amending Article 59, paragraph (5), item (iv) of the Mariners Insurance Act come into effect on November 1, 1980, and the provisions in Article 7 amending Article 87, paragraph (3) of the National Pension Act and the provisions of Article 53 of the Supplementary Provisions come into effect on April 1, 1981.

②The provisions set forth in the following items apply from the dates specified in those items:

With regard to the amount of pension insurance benefits under the Employees' Pension Insurance Act for months up to and including May 1980, 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 October 1, 1980 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), among persons who acquired the status of an insured during the period from July 1 to September 30 of that year, or persons whose standardized remuneration was revised from August or September of that year pursuant to the provisions of Article 23, paragraph (1) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act, and whose standard monthly remuneration in the same month of that year is 42,000 yen or less, or 320,000 yen (excluding a person for whom the monthly amount of remuneration that was the basis of that standard monthly remuneration is less than 330,000 yen), the prefectural governor revises the standardized remuneration by deeming the monthly amount of remuneration that was the basis of that standard monthly remuneration to be the monthly amount of remuneration that is the basis of the standardized remuneration under the provisions of Article 20 of that 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 each month from October 1980 to September 1981.

③Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 26 of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act, the standard monthly remuneration on or after November 1980 of a class 4 insured person under employees' pension insurance whose standard monthly remuneration is less than 45,000 yen is 45,000 yen.

With regard to a pension for surviving family of a person who, on any day during the period from August 1, 1980 through the day before the date of enforcement of this Act (hereinafter referred to as "the Effective Date"), has the right to receive a pension for surviving family to which an amount to be added pursuant to the provisions of Article 62-2 of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act has been added (limited to a person to whom that pension for surviving family is paid pursuant to the provisions of Article 38, paragraph (1) of that Act), for as long as it continues to be paid pursuant to the provisions of that paragraph, the phrase "additional amount of pension" in Article 38, paragraph (2) of that Act as amended by the provisions of Article 1 is deemed to be replaced with "additional amount of pension and the amount to be added pursuant to the provisions of Article 62-2 of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act prior to its amendment by the provisions of Article 1 of the Act Partially Amending the Employees' Pension Insurance Act, etc. (Act No. 82 of 1980)".

With regard to the payment of an old-age pension under Article 42, paragraph (1) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act as amended by the provisions of Article 1, for the period from June 1, 1980 through September 30 of that year, the phrase "Grade 20" in item (v) of that paragraph is deemed to be replaced with "Grade 25".

To an insured aged 60 or older and under 65 who, on June 1, 1980, actually satisfies the insured period prescribed in any of Article 42, paragraph (1), items (i) through (iii) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act as amended by the provisions of Article 1, and whose standardized remuneration grade is any of Grade 1 through Grade 25, an old-age pension under that paragraph is paid, deeming that person to fall under that paragraph even where the person does not.

With regard to an old-age pension or aggregated old-age pension paid to an insured who, on June 1, 1980, is actually a beneficiary of an old-age pension or aggregated old-age pension under the Employees' Pension Insurance Act and is 65 years of age or older, notwithstanding the provisions of Article 43, paragraph (5) of that Act as amended by the provisions of Article 1 (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 46-4, paragraph (3) of that Act), the period of having been an insured before the month in which the person reached the age of 65 is to be the basis for calculating the basic amount of pension, and the amount of the pension is revised from June of that year.

With regard to an old-age pension or aggregated old-age pension paid to an insured who, on June 1, 1980, is actually a beneficiary of an old-age pension or aggregated old-age pension under the Employees' Pension Insurance Act and is 70 years of age or older, notwithstanding the provisions of Article 43, paragraph (6) of that Act as amended by the provisions of Article 1 (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 46-4, paragraph (3) of that Act), the period of having been an insured before the month in which the person reached the age of 70 is to be the basis for calculating the basic amount of pension, and the amount of the pension is revised from June of that year.