This Act comes into effect on April 1, 1986 (hereinafter referred to as the "Effective Date"); provided, however, that the provisions listed in the following items come into effect on the dates specified respectively in those items:

In this Article through Article 38-2 of the Supplementary Provisions, Articles 41 through 90 of the Supplementary Provisions and Articles 92 through 94 of the Supplementary Provisions, the meanings of the terms set forth in the following items are as prescribed in those items, respectively:

①Of persons who acquired the status of an insured covered by employees' pension insurance before October 1, 1985 and have continuously held that status as an insured through that day (excluding persons who hold that status as an insured pursuant to the provisions of Article 15, paragraph (1) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act), the standardized remuneration of a person who acquired the status of an insured covered by employees' pension insurance during the period from July 1 to September 30 of that year, or a person 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 standardized monthly amount of remuneration in the same month of that year is 64,000 yen or less or 410,000 yen (excluding a person for whom the amount of monthly remuneration that formed the basis for that standardized monthly amount of remuneration is less than 425,000 yen), is to be revised by the prefectural governor, by regarding the amount of monthly remuneration that formed the basis for that standardized monthly amount of remuneration as the amount of monthly remuneration forming the basis of standardized remuneration under the provisions of Article 20 of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act as amended by Article 2.

②The standardized remuneration revised pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph is to be the standardized remuneration for each month from October 1985 through September 1986.

③The standardized monthly amount of remuneration, for the period from October 1985 to March 1986, of an insured covered by employees' pension insurance pursuant to the provisions of Article 15, paragraph (1) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act whose standardized monthly amount of remuneration is less than 68,000 yen is to be 68,000 yen, notwithstanding the provisions of Article 26 of that Act.

Transitional measures necessary for the application of Article 47, paragraph (2) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act as amended by the provisions of Article 2, with regard to a disability resulting from an injury or illness for which the day of initial examination falls before the date specified by Cabinet Order prescribed in Article 1, item (i) of the Supplementary Provisions (limited to the part pertaining to the provisions amending Article 47, paragraph (2) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act in Article 2), are specified by Cabinet Order.

With regard to a place of business or office listed in Article 6, paragraph (1), item (ii) of the new Employees' Pension Insurance Act other than one that regularly employs five or more employees, the provisions of that paragraph (including as applied pursuant to paragraph (3) of that Article and Article 7 of that Act) are to be applied in stages, until March 31, 1989, as specified by Cabinet Order.

①A person who was born on or after April 2, 1921, and who, on the day preceding the Effective Date, was an insured under Mariners Insurance pursuant to the provisions of Article 17 of the former Mariners Insurance Act, and who, on the Effective Date, is employed on a ship prescribed in Article 6, paragraph (1), item (iii) of the new Employees' Pension Insurance Act (excluding a person who acquires the status of an insured covered by employees' pension insurance on that day pursuant to the provisions of Article 13 of that Act), acquires the status of an insured covered by employees' pension insurance on that day. In this case, confirmation by the prefectural governor under the provisions of Article 18 of that Act is not required.

②A person who was born on or before April 1, 1921, and who, on the day preceding the Effective Date, was an insured covered by employees' pension insurance pursuant to the provisions of Article 9 or Article 10, paragraph (1) of the former Employees' Pension Insurance Act, loses the status of that insured on the Effective Date.

①The provisions of Article 15, paragraph (1) of the former Employees' Pension Insurance Act remain in force with respect to a person who, on the day preceding the Effective Date, was an insured covered by employees' pension insurance pursuant to the provisions of that paragraph and who does not fall under any of the following items; provided, however, that this does not apply on or after the time when that person loses the status of an insured covered by employees' pension insurance pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (9):

②If a person who falls under any of the following items and whose insured period covered by employees' pension insurance (including the period pertaining to a period deemed to have been a period as an insured covered by employees' pension insurance pursuant to the provisions of Article 47, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions or other laws and regulations; the same applies hereinafter in this Article) is 10 years or more has ceased to be an insured covered by employees' pension insurance, and that insured period has not reached 20 years (excluding the case of falling under Article 12, paragraph (1), items (iv) through (vii) of the Supplementary Provisions), that person may become an insured covered by employees' pension insurance by applying to the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare; provided, however, that for a person who falls under item (i), item (ii) or item (iv), this applies only where the entire period from the month that includes the Effective Date to the month preceding the month that includes the day on which the person ceased to be an insured covered by employees' pension insurance is an insured period covered by employees' pension insurance (including the case where the month that includes the day on which the person ceased to be an insured covered by employees' pension insurance is the month that includes the Effective Date):

③The application under the preceding paragraph must be made within six months from the day on which the person lost the status of an insured covered by employees' pension insurance; provided, however, that the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare may accept an application made after the expiry of this period if the Minister finds that there is a legitimate reason.

④A person who has made the application under paragraph (2) is, when the application is accepted, to acquire the status of an insured covered by employees' pension insurance on whichever of the day on which the person lost the status of an insured covered by employees' pension insurance pertaining to the application or the day on which the application was accepted the person chooses; provided, however, that if the person was an insured covered by employees' pension insurance on the day on which the application was accepted, the person is to acquire the status of an insured covered by employees' pension insurance on the day on which the person lost the status of an insured covered by employees' pension insurance pertaining to the application.

⑤If a person who was able to make the application under Article 15, paragraph (1) of the former Employees' Pension Insurance Act on the day preceding the Effective Date (excluding a person who was required, pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (2) of that Article, to make the application under paragraph (1) of that Article by that day) and who had not made the application under that paragraph was, on the Effective Date, neither an insured covered by employees' pension insurance nor a member, that person may become an insured covered by employees' pension insurance by applying to the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare.

⑥The provisions of paragraph (3) apply mutatis mutandis to the application under the preceding paragraph, and the provisions of paragraph (4) apply mutatis mutandis to a person who has made the application under the preceding paragraph. In this case, the phrase "the day on which the person lost the status of an insured covered by employees' pension insurance pertaining to the application" in paragraph (4) is deemed to be replaced with "the Effective Date".

⑦With regard to an insured covered by employees' pension insurance pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) and a person who has acquired the status of an insured covered by employees' pension insurance pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (2) or paragraph (5), the provisions of Article 15, paragraph (4) of the former Employees' Pension Insurance Act remain in force.

⑧A class 4 insured person may at any time lose the status of an insured covered by employees' pension insurance by applying to the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare.

⑨A class 4 insured person loses the status of an insured covered by employees' pension insurance on the day following the day on which the person comes to fall under any of the following items (or, in the case of coming to fall under item (iii), on that day):

⑩With regard to class 4 insured persons, the provisions of the proviso to Article 18, paragraph (1) of the former Employees' Pension Insurance Act remain in force.

⑪Among persons born on or before April 1, 1921, a person who was an insured under Mariners Insurance on the day preceding the Effective Date and who is employed on the Effective Date on a ship prescribed in Article 6, paragraph (1), item (iii) of the new Employees' Pension Insurance Act, or a person who was an insured under Mariners Insurance pursuant to the provisions of Article 20 of the former Mariners Insurance Act on the day preceding the Effective Date and who fell under item (ii) of paragraph (1) of the following Article (excluding a person who fell under item (i) of that paragraph), is deemed, for the purpose of applying the provisions of paragraph (2), to have acquired the status of an insured under employees' pension insurance on the Effective Date and to have lost the status of an insured on the same day.

⑫With regard to class 4 insured persons, the provisions of Articles 81-2 and 81-2-2 of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act do not apply.

①A person who was an insured under Mariners Insurance pursuant to the provisions of Article 20 of the former Mariners Insurance Act on the day preceding the Effective Date and who does not fall under any of the following items acquires the status of an insured under employees' pension insurance on the Effective Date. In this case, confirmation by the prefectural governor under the provisions of Article 18 of the new Employees' Pension Insurance Act is not required.

②With regard to a person prescribed in the preceding paragraph, the provisions of Article 20, paragraph (4) of the former Mariners Insurance Act remain in force, and if the person is deemed under the provisions of that paragraph not to have become an insured under Mariners Insurance under the provisions of paragraph (1) of that Article, the person is deemed not to have become an insured under employees' pension insurance under the provisions of the preceding paragraph.

③A voluntarily continued mariner insured person may, at any time, make a request to the prefectural governor and lose the status of an insured under employees' pension insurance.

④A voluntarily continued mariner insured person loses the status of an insured under employees' pension insurance on the day following the day on which the person comes to fall under paragraph (9), item (i), (ii) or (iv) of the preceding Article or any of the following items (or, if the person comes to fall under item (i) below or item (iv) of that paragraph, on that day).

⑤For the purpose of applying the provisions of the preceding paragraph, a person among voluntarily continued mariner insured persons who, because the period during which the person was a class 1 insured person prescribed in Article 3, paragraph (1), item (i) of the former Employees' Pension Insurance Act or a class 4 insured person prescribed in item (vii) of that paragraph is deemed under Article 3, paragraph (1) or Article 4, paragraph (1) of the former Coordination Act to be a period during which the person was an insured under Mariners Insurance, has come to satisfy the period prescribed in Article 34, paragraph (1), item (i) or (iii) of the former Mariners Insurance Act, and who, without falling under Article 21, item (ii) of that Act, has continued to be an insured under Mariners Insurance pursuant to the provisions of Article 20 of that Act until the day preceding the Effective Date, is deemed not to fall under paragraph (9), item (ii) of the preceding Article, and that person loses the status of an insured under employees' pension insurance on the day on which the total of the period deemed under the provisions of Article 47, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions to be a period during which the person was an insured under employees' pension insurance, the period during which the person was a class 3 insured person prescribed in Article 3, paragraph (1), item (v) of the former Employees' Pension Insurance Act, and the period during which the person was a voluntarily continued mariner insured person reaches 15 years, or on the day on which the person comes to fall under Article 12, paragraph (1), item (v) of the Supplementary Provisions.

⑥The provisions of the proviso to Article 18, paragraph (1) of the former Employees' Pension Insurance Act that remain in force pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (10) of the preceding Article apply mutatis mutandis to voluntarily continued mariner insured persons.

⑦For the purpose of applying the provisions of Article 9 and Article 13, paragraph (1) of the new Employees' Pension Insurance Act, for the time being, the phrase "a person under 65 years of age who is employed at an applicable place of business" in Article 9 of that Act is deemed to be replaced with "a person under 65 years of age who is employed at an applicable place of business (excluding a voluntarily continued mariner insured person prescribed in Article 5, item (xiv) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the National Pension Act, etc. (Act No. 34 of 1985) (hereinafter simply referred to as a 'voluntarily continued mariner insured person'))", and the phrase "the day on which the person ceases to be subject to the provisions of the preceding Article" in Article 13, paragraph (1) of that Act is deemed to be replaced with "the day on which the person ceases to be subject to the provisions of the preceding Article or the day on which the person ceases to be a voluntarily continued mariner insured person".

⑧The provisions of Article 10, paragraph (1) and Article 82-2 of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act do not apply to voluntarily continued mariner insured persons.

①For the purpose of applying the provisions of Articles 110, 122 and 144 of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act prior to the amendment by Article 1 of the Act Partially Amending the Employees' Pension Insurance Act, etc. for Ensuring the Soundness and Reliability of the Public Pension System (Act No. 63 of 2013; hereinafter referred to as the "2013 Amendment Act"), which remain in force pursuant to the provisions of Article 5, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 2013 Amendment Act, class 4 insured persons and voluntarily continued mariner insured persons are deemed not to be insureds under employees' pension insurance.

②The provisions of Article 4-3, paragraph (1) and Article 4-5, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act do not apply to class 4 insured persons and voluntarily continued mariner insured persons.

The provisions of Articles 18 and 27, Articles 29 through 31, Article 102, paragraph (1) (limited to items (i) and (ii)) and Article 104 of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act, Article 19-2 of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act prior to the amendment by Article 1 of the 2013 Amendment Act, which remains in force pursuant to the provisions of Article 85 of the Supplementary Provisions of the 2013 Amendment Act, Article 128 of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act prior to the amendment by Article 1 of the 2013 Amendment Act, which remains in force pursuant to the provisions of Article 5, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 2013 Amendment Act, and Article 94 (limited to item (i)) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 2013 Amendment Act apply mutatis mutandis to a change of insured category under employees' pension insurance (meaning a change between a class 1 insured person (including a class 1 insured person prescribed in Article 3, paragraph (1), item (i) of the former Employees' Pension Insurance Act) and a class 3 insured person (including a class 3 insured person prescribed in Article 3, paragraph (1), item (v) of the former Employees' Pension Insurance Act)).

①A period during which a person was an insured under Mariners Insurance under the former Mariners Insurance Act (including a period deemed under the provisions of other laws and regulations to have been a period during which the person was such an insured, or added to a period during which the person was such an insured) is deemed to be a category I EPI insured period. However, this does not apply to the periods set forth in the following items.

②The calculation of the insured period under employees' pension insurance relating to a period before the Effective Date during which a person was a class 3 insured person prescribed in Article 3, paragraph (1), item (v) of the former Employees' Pension Insurance Act (including a period deemed under the provisions of Article 4, paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisions of that Act to have been a period during which the person was such a class 3 insured person, or a period for which the provisions concerning that period were to apply mutatis mutandis) is governed by the provisions of Article 19, paragraph (3) and Article 19-2 of the former Employees' Pension Insurance Act.

③Where the insured period under employees' pension insurance is calculated for a period during which a person was an insured under Mariners Insurance under the former Mariners Insurance Act that is deemed under the provisions of paragraph (1) to be a category I EPI insured period, the period obtained by multiplying that period by 4/3 is the insured period under employees' pension insurance.

④Where the insured period under employees' pension insurance is calculated for a period before April 1, 1991 during which a person was a class 3 insured person, etc., notwithstanding the provisions of Article 19, paragraphs (1) and (2) of the new Employees' Pension Insurance Act, the period obtained by multiplying the period calculated pursuant to those provisions by 6/5 is the insured period under employees' pension insurance.

①The provisions of Article 8, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions apply mutatis mutandis to the application of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act with regard to insured periods under National Pension before the Effective Date (including those pertaining to periods deemed to have been periods as an insured under National Pension pursuant to the provisions of other laws and regulations).

②A period deemed to be a premium-paid period under National Pension pursuant to the provisions of Article 8, paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisions is deemed to be a premium-paid period for the purpose of the application of the provisions of Article 42, item (ii) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act (including as applied pursuant to Article 7-3, paragraph (1), Article 8, Article 13-4, paragraph (1), Article 28-3 and Article 29 of the Supplementary Provisions of that Act and Article 15, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the National Pension Act, etc. (Act No. 95 of 1994; hereinafter referred to as the "1994 Amendment Act") (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to paragraph (3) of that Article); the same applies in the following paragraph) and Article 58, paragraph (1), item (iv) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act, and Article 14, paragraph (1) and Article 28-4 of the Supplementary Provisions of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act.

③The provisions of Article 8, paragraph (8) of the Supplementary Provisions apply mutatis mutandis to the calculation of an insured period under National Pension as a category II insured in the case of applying the provisions of Article 42, item (ii) and Article 58, paragraph (1), item (iv) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act and Article 14, paragraph (1) and Article 28-4 of the Supplementary Provisions of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act.

④With regard to the application of the provisions of Article 7-3, paragraph (1), item (iii) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act, for the time being, the phrase "an insured engaged in (" in that item is deemed to be replaced with "an insured engaged in (excluding a class 4 insured person prescribed in Article 5, item (xiii) 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"), a voluntarily continued mariner insured person prescribed in item (xiv) of that Article, a class 4 insured person prescribed in Article 3, paragraph (1), item (vii) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act prior to amendment by the provisions of Article 3 of the 1985 Amendment Act, and an insured under the provisions of Article 22 of the former Act.", the phrase "an insured employed on a ship (" is deemed to be replaced with "an insured employed on a ship (including a voluntarily continued mariner insured person prescribed in Article 5, item (xiv) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 1985 Amendment Act.", and the phrase "'an insured who is a mariner'), the period during which the person was an insured" is deemed to be replaced with "'an insured who is a mariner'), the period during which the person was an insured (including the period during which the person was an insured under the Mariners Insurance Act prior to amendment by the provisions of Article 5 of the 1985 Amendment Act, which is deemed to be a period during which the person was an insured covered by employees' pension insurance pursuant to the provisions of Article 47, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 1985 Amendment Act; the same applies hereinafter in this paragraph)".

⑤The periods listed in the items of Article 8, paragraph (5) of the Supplementary Provisions are to be included in the credited period for the purpose of the application of the provisions of Article 14, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act. In this case, the provisions of Article 8, paragraphs (6) and (7) of the Supplementary Provisions apply mutatis mutandis.

⑥A period deemed, pursuant to the provisions of Article 8, paragraph (9) of the Supplementary Provisions, to be an insured period under National Pension that is a premium-paid period is deemed to be an insured period under National Pension that is a premium-paid period for the purpose of the application of the proviso to Article 47, paragraph (1) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 47-2, paragraph (2), Article 47-3, paragraph (2), Article 52, paragraph (5), Article 54, paragraph (3) and Article 55, paragraph (2) of that Act) and the proviso to Article 58, paragraph (1) of that Act.

⑦In the case where the right to collect insurance premiums for employees' pension insurance, or for Mariners Insurance for a period before the Effective Date, has been extinguished by prescription with regard to an insured period covered by employees' pension insurance (including one pertaining to a period deemed to have been a period as an insured covered by employees' pension insurance pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) of the preceding Article or other laws and regulations) (excluding the case of falling under the proviso to Article 75 of the new Employees' Pension Insurance Act, the case of falling under the proviso to Article 75, paragraph (1) of the former Employees' Pension Insurance Act, and the case of falling under the proviso to Article 51-2 of the former Mariners Insurance Act), the provisions of paragraph (2) do not apply to the insured period covered by employees' pension insurance pertaining to those insurance premiums, and that insured period is not to be included in the credited period for the purpose of the application of the provisions of Article 14, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act, notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (5), and is deemed to be an insured period under National Pension other than the premium-paid period and premium-exemption period prescribed in Article 8, paragraph (11) of the Supplementary Provisions, for the purpose of the application of the provisions of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act prescribed in the preceding paragraph, notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding paragraph.

With regard to the application of the provisions of Article 7-2, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act, for the time being, the phrase "the period during which a person was an insured of two or more categories" in that paragraph is deemed to be replaced with "the period during which a person was an insured of two or more categories, or a period listed in the items (excluding item (i)) of Article 8, paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the National Pension Act, etc. (Act No. 34 of 1985) that pertains to a period before April 1, 1986 (hereinafter in this paragraph referred to as the "period as a member, etc.")", the phrase "or Article 13-4, paragraph (1)" is deemed to be replaced with "or Article 13-4, paragraph (1), or Article 78, paragraph (7) or Article 87, paragraph (8) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the National Pension Act, etc.", the phrase "the period of having been an insured of the one" is deemed to be replaced with "the period as the relevant member, etc. of the one", and the phrase "confirmation" is deemed to be replaced with "confirmation (for a period listed in the items (excluding item (i)) of Article 8, paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the National Pension Act, etc. that pertains to a period before April 1, 1986, the confirmation by the mutual aid Association or by the Promotion and Mutual Aid Corporation for Private Schools of Japan, which is to administer the mutual aid system for private school personnel pursuant to the provisions of the Private School Personnel Mutual Aid Association Act, according to the period listed in the relevant items)".

The standardized monthly amount of remuneration under the former Mariners Insurance Act for each month of a period as an insured under Mariners Insurance before the Effective Date is deemed to be the standardized monthly amount of remuneration under the Employees' Pension Insurance Act for that month.

①With respect to a class 4 insured person, the provisions of Article 26 of the former Employees' Pension Insurance Act remain in force.

②With regard to the standardized monthly amount of remuneration on or after April 1986 of a class 4 insured person whose standardized monthly amount of remuneration under the provisions of Article 26 of the former Employees' Pension Insurance Act that remain in force pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph is less than 68,000 yen, the provisions of Article 39, paragraph (3) of the Supplementary Provisions apply mutatis mutandis.

③The standardized remuneration of a voluntarily continued mariner insured person for each month is to be, notwithstanding the provisions of Articles 21 through 24 of the new Employees' Pension Insurance Act, the standardized remuneration of that person in the month that includes the day preceding the Effective Date, based on the provisions of Article 4, paragraph (7) of the former Mariners Insurance Act.

Except as otherwise provided in these Supplementary Provisions, dispositions, procedures and other acts done pursuant to the former Mariners Insurance Act or orders under it are deemed to be dispositions, procedures and other acts done pursuant to the corresponding provisions of the new Employees' Pension Insurance Act or orders under it.

If a part of the period during which a person was an insured covered by employees' pension insurance is a period during which the person was a class 3 insured person prescribed in Article 47, paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisions (including a period deemed to be a category I EPI insured period pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) of that Article; hereinafter in this Article referred to as the "period as a former class 3 insured person, etc."), a period as a class 3 insured person, etc. prescribed in paragraph (4) of that Article (hereinafter in this Article referred to as the "period as a class 3 insured person, etc."), a period as a former mariner member prescribed in Article 5, paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 1996 Amendment Act or Article 7, paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 2012 Pension Unification Act (hereinafter in this Article referred to as the "period as a former mariner member"), or a period as a new mariner member prescribed in Article 5, paragraph (3) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 1996 Amendment Act or Article 7, paragraph (3) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 2012 Pension Unification Act (hereinafter in this Article referred to as the "period as a new mariner member"), the amount specified in Article 20, paragraph (1), item (i) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the National Pension Act, etc. (Act No. 18 of 2000; hereinafter referred to as the "2000 Amendment Act") is, notwithstanding the provisions of that item, the sum of the amounts listed in the following items; provided, however, that this does not apply where, in calculating the amount of an employees' old-age pension or an employees' pension for surviving family (limited to one paid by reason of falling under Article 58, paragraph (1), item (iv) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act), the number of months of the insured period covered by employees' pension insurance forming the basis of the calculation is less than 240 (excluding the case of falling under any of Article 12, paragraph (1), items (iv) through (vii) of the Supplementary Provisions), where the provisions of the second sentence of Article 50, paragraph (1) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act apply in calculating the amount of an employees' disability pension, or where the proviso to Article 60, paragraph (1), item (i) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act applies in calculating the amount of an employees' pension for surviving family (excluding one paid by reason of falling under Article 58, paragraph (1), item (iv) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act):

In the case where the standardized monthly amount of remuneration under the former Mariners Insurance Act is deemed to be the standardized monthly amount of remuneration under the Employees' Pension Insurance Act pursuant to the provisions of Article 49 of the Supplementary Provisions, when calculating the average standardized monthly amount of remuneration for the insurance benefits to be paid to a person who was an insured under Mariners Insurance before November 1, 1969 and who has come to have the right to receive insurance benefits under the Employees' Pension Insurance Act on or after the Effective Date, if any of the standardized monthly amounts of remuneration forming the basis of the calculation is less than 12,000 yen, it is deemed to be 12,000 yen.

With regard to the application of the provisions listed in each of the following items concerning the amount of insurance benefits, the amount of additional pension, or the additional amount listed in that item, if the price index averaged over the year 1985 comes to exceed 100/100 of the price index averaged over fiscal year 1983, the amount of insurance benefits, the amount of additional pension, or the additional amount prescribed in the provisions listed in those items for the months on or after April 1986 is to be the amount revised, as specified by Cabinet Order, based on the rate of that rise:

①With regard to the payment of the special old-age pension under the provisions of Article 28-3 of the Supplementary Provisions of the new Employees' Pension Insurance Act and the special pension for surviving family under the provisions of Article 28-4 of the Supplementary Provisions of that Act, until the date specified by Cabinet Order, notwithstanding the provisions of Article 36, paragraph (3) of that Act, the example of the provisions of Article 10 of the former Pension Aggregation General Rules Act is followed.

②Transitional measures necessary in connection with the enforcement of the provisions of the preceding paragraph are specified by Cabinet Order.

①Payment of pension insurance benefits under the Employees' Pension Insurance Act is suspended during the period in which the beneficiary is able to receive pension insurance benefits under the former Employees' Pension Insurance Act (including pension insurance benefits paid pursuant to the provisions of the former Employees' Pension Insurance Act that remain in force pursuant to the provisions of Article 63, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions and pension insurance benefits that the government as the executor of employees' pension insurance is to pay pursuant to the provisions of Article 87, paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisions; the same applies hereinafter in this Article).

②Payment of pension insurance benefits under the former Employees' Pension Insurance Act (excluding those for which death is the grounds for payment) is suspended during the period in which the beneficiary is able to receive pension insurance benefits under the Employees' Pension Insurance Act, pension benefits under the National Pension Act (excluding the basic disability pension paid pursuant to the provisions of Article 25 of the Supplementary Provisions and the basic pension for surviving family paid pursuant to the provisions of Article 28 of the Supplementary Provisions; the same applies hereinafter in this Article) or pension benefits under the pre-2012 Mutual Aid Acts (excluding the retirement mutual aid pension paid to a person prescribed in Article 31, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions; the same applies hereinafter in this paragraph). The same applies to pension insurance benefits for which death is the grounds for payment, among the pension insurance benefits under the former Employees' Pension Insurance Act, where the beneficiary of a benefit for which death is the grounds for payment is able to receive pension insurance benefits under the Employees' Pension Insurance Act, pension benefits under the National Pension Act (excluding the old-age basic pension and the old-age pension under Article 9-3 of the Supplementary Provisions of that Act (limited to one whose beneficiary has reached 65 years of age)) or pension benefits under the pre-2012 Mutual Aid Acts.

③The provisions of Article 38, paragraphs (2) through (4) of the new Employees' Pension Insurance Act apply mutatis mutandis to the cases in the preceding two paragraphs.

④In applying the provisions of Article 38, paragraph (1) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act to an employees' old-age pension, the phrase "an old-age basic pension, additional pension, or basic disability pension" in that paragraph is deemed to be replaced with "an old-age basic pension, additional pension, a basic disability pension, or a disability pension under the National Pension Act prior to amendment by Article 1 of the Act Partially Amending the National Pension Act, etc. (Act No. 34 of 1985) (limited to one whose beneficiary has reached 65 years of age)) or pension benefits under the pre-2012 Mutual Aid Acts prescribed in Article 11, paragraph (3) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the National Pension Act, etc. (excluding retirement mutual aid pensions, retirement pensions and reduced retirement pensions (including those pension benefits that the government as the executor of employees' pension insurance is to pay pursuant to the provisions of Article 16, paragraph (3) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 1996 Amendment Act) and survivors' mutual aid pensions".

⑤In applying the provisions of Article 38, paragraph (1) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act to an employees' pension for surviving family, the phrase "a basic pension for surviving family to be paid based on the same grounds for payment as the employees' pension for surviving family in question)" in that paragraph is deemed to be replaced with "a basic pension for surviving family to be paid based on the same grounds for payment as the employees' pension for surviving family in question, an old-age pension and aggregated old-age pension under the National Pension Act prior to amendment by Article 1 of the Act Partially Amending the National Pension Act, etc. (Act No. 34 of 1985) (limited to ones whose beneficiary has reached 65 years of age), and a disability pension under the National Pension Act prior to that amendment (limited to one whose beneficiary has reached 65 years of age))".

⑥With regard to an old-age pension, aggregated old-age pension and special old-age pension among the pension insurance benefits under the former Employees' Pension Insurance Act, when the beneficiary (limited to a person who has reached 65 years of age) receives payment of an employees' pension for surviving family or a special pension for surviving family under the Employees' Pension Insurance Act, or a survivors' mutual aid pension, the suspension of payment of the portion equivalent to one-half of the amount of that old-age pension, aggregated old-age pension and special old-age pension is not carried out, notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (2).

⑦With regard to a disability pension for a cause related to duty among the pension insurance benefits that the government as the executor of employees' pension insurance is to pay pursuant to the provisions of Article 87, paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisions, the suspension of payment is not carried out, notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (2), for the portion equivalent to the amount obtained by deducting from the amount of that disability pension an amount equivalent to twice the amount in Article 41, paragraph (1), item (i), (b) of the former Mariners Insurance Act (or, where there is an amount to be added pursuant to the provisions of Article 41-2 of the former Mariners Insurance Act, the amount obtained by adding the amount equivalent to that amount).

⑧With regard to a pension for surviving family for a cause related to duty among the pension insurance benefits that the government as the executor of employees' pension insurance is to pay pursuant to the provisions of Article 87, paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisions, the suspension of payment is not carried out, notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (2), for the portion equivalent to the amount obtained by deducting from the amount of that pension for surviving family an amount equivalent to twice the sum of the amounts in Article 50-2, paragraph (1), item (iii), (b) and (c) of the former Mariners Insurance Act (or, where there is an amount to be added pursuant to the provisions of Article 50-3 of the former Mariners Insurance Act, the amount obtained by adding the amount equivalent to the part of that amount listed in the middle column of Appended Table 3-2 of the former Mariners Insurance Act, and where there is an amount to be added pursuant to the provisions of Article 50-3-2 of the former Mariners Insurance Act, the amount obtained by adding the amount equivalent to that amount).

Among persons who have an insured period covered by employees' pension insurance (including the period pertaining to a period deemed to have been a period as an insured covered by employees' pension insurance pursuant to the provisions of Article 47, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions or other laws and regulations; the same applies hereinafter in this Article), a person who does not fall under Article 42, item (ii) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act (excluding a person deemed to fall under Article 42, item (ii) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act pursuant to the provisions of Article 14, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of that Act) and who falls under any of Article 12, paragraph (1), items (ii) through (vii) and items (xviii) through (xx) of the Supplementary Provisions is deemed to fall under Article 42, item (ii) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act for the purpose of the application of the provisions of Article 42 of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act and Article 7-3, paragraph (1), Article 8, Article 13-4, paragraph (1), Article 28-3, paragraph (1) and Article 29, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of that Act, and Article 15, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 1994 Amendment Act (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to paragraph (3) of that Article); and among persons who have an insured period covered by employees' pension insurance, a person whose combined period of the premium-paid period (including a period deemed to be a premium-paid period pursuant to the provisions of Article 8, paragraph (1) or (2) of the Supplementary Provisions) and the premium-exemption period (including a period deemed to be a premium-exemption period pursuant to the provisions of Article 8, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions) is less than 25 years (excluding a person deemed to have a combined period of the premium-paid period and the premium-exemption period of 25 years or more pursuant to the provisions of Article 14, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act) and who falls under any of Article 12, paragraph (1), items (i) through (xix) of the Supplementary Provisions is deemed to have a combined period of the premium-paid period and the premium-exemption period of 25 years or more for the purpose of the application of the provisions of Article 58, paragraph (1) (limited to item (iv)) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act and Article 28-4, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act.

①For a woman listed in the upper column of Appended Table 6 of the Supplementary Provisions, the phrase "60 years of age" in Article 8, item (i) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act is deemed to be replaced as shown in the lower column of that table, respectively; provided, however, that this does not apply to a person who does not fall under Article 12, paragraph (1), item (ii) or item (iv) of the Supplementary Provisions.

②A person who falls under any of Article 12, paragraph (1), items (v) through (vii) of the Supplementary Provisions is deemed, for the purpose of the application of the provisions of Article 7-3, paragraph (1), item (iii), Article 8-2, paragraph (3), Article 9-4, paragraphs (1), (4) and (6), Article 11-3, paragraph (3) and Article 13-5, paragraph (7) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act and Article 15, paragraphs (1) and (3) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 1994 Amendment Act, to have a combined period of the period as an insured who is an underground worker and the period as an insured who is a mariner, as prescribed in those provisions, of 15 years or more.

①For a person listed in the upper column of Appended Table 7 of the Supplementary Provisions, the phrase "5.481/1,000" in Article 43, paragraph (1) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act (including as applied in Article 44, paragraph (1) and Article 44-3, paragraph (4) of that Act (including as applied with replaced terms pursuant to the provisions of Article 87 of the Supplementary Provisions of the 2013 Amendment Act; the same applies in paragraph (5)), as applied in Article 44-3, paragraph (4) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act prior to amendment by Article 5 of the 2000 Amendment Act that remains in force pursuant to the provisions of Article 17, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 2000 Amendment Act, and as followed in Article 60, paragraph (1), item (i) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act (limited to the case of falling under Article 58, paragraph (1), item (iv) of that Act)) and in Article 9-2, paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act (including as followed in Article 9-3, paragraphs (1) and (3) of the Supplementary Provisions of that Act (including as followed in paragraph (5) of that Article), Article 9-4, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of that Act (including as followed in Article 28-3, paragraph (2) and Article 28-4, paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisions of that Act) and Article 9-4, paragraph (4) of the Supplementary Provisions of that Act (including as followed in paragraph (6) of that Article), and in Article 18, paragraph (2), Article 19, paragraphs (2) and (4), Article 20, paragraphs (2) and (4) and Article 20-2, paragraphs (2) and (4) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 1994 Amendment Act), and in Article 20, paragraph (1), item (ii) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 2000 Amendment Act (limited to the case of calculating the amount of an employees' old-age pension and an employees' pension for surviving family (limited to one paid by reason of falling under Article 58, paragraph (1), item (iv) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act)) is deemed to be replaced as shown in the lower column of that table, respectively.

②The amount of an employees' old-age pension (excluding an employees' old-age pension paid pursuant to the provisions of Article 8 of the Supplementary Provisions of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act or Article 15, paragraph (1) or (3) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 1994 Amendment Act) is, for the time being, where the amount listed in item (i) exceeds the amount listed in item (ii), notwithstanding the provisions of Article 43, paragraph (1) and Article 44, paragraph (1) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act, the amount prescribed in those provisions plus the amount obtained by deducting the amount listed in item (ii) from the amount listed in item (i).

③For a person listed in the upper column of Appended Table 7 of the Supplementary Provisions, the phrase "rounded up to one yen)" in item (i) of the preceding paragraph and in Article 9-2, paragraph (2), item (i) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act (including as followed in Article 9-3, paragraphs (1) and (3) of the Supplementary Provisions of that Act (including as followed in paragraph (5) of that Article), Article 9-4, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of that Act (including as followed in Article 28-3, paragraph (2) and Article 28-4, paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisions of that Act) and Article 9-4, paragraph (4) of the Supplementary Provisions of that Act (including as followed in paragraph (6) of that Article), and in Article 18, paragraph (2), Article 19, paragraphs (2) and (4), Article 20, paragraphs (2) and (4) and Article 20-2, paragraphs (2) and (4) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 1994 Amendment Act; the same applies in the following paragraph) is deemed to be replaced with "rounded up to one yen) and then by the rate specified by Cabinet Order".

④The rate specified by Cabinet Order prescribed in paragraph (2), item (i) as replaced pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph and in Article 9-2, paragraph (2), item (i) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act is to be determined according to the date of birth of the person listed in the upper column of Appended Table 7 of the Supplementary Provisions, and is to be set so that the amount obtained by multiplying the amount obtained by multiplying 1,628 yen by the revision rate (where a fraction of less than 50 sen arises, it is rounded down, and where a fraction of 50 sen or more but less than one yen arises, it is rounded up to one yen) by that rate (where a fraction of less than 50 sen arises, it is rounded down, and where a fraction of 50 sen or more but less than one yen arises, it is rounded up to one yen) declines at a constant rate in the range from the amount obtained by multiplying 3,053 yen by the revision rate (where a fraction of less than 50 sen arises, it is rounded down, and where a fraction of 50 sen or more but less than one yen arises, it is rounded up to one yen) to the amount obtained by multiplying 1,628 yen by the revision rate (where a fraction of less than 50 sen arises, it is rounded down, and where a fraction of 50 sen or more but less than one yen arises, it is rounded up to one yen).

⑤For a person whose amount of employees' old-age pension is calculated pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (2), the phrase "these provisions" in Article 44-3, paragraph (4) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act is deemed to be replaced with "the provisions of Article 59, paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the National Pension Act, etc. (Act No. 34 of 1985)".

①Where the spouse of the beneficiary of an employees' old-age pension or an employees' disability pension was born on or before April 1, 1926, the phrase "spouse under 65 years old" in Article 44, paragraph (1) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act (including as applied mutatis mutandis in Article 9-2, paragraph (3), Article 9-3, paragraphs (2) and (4) (including as followed in paragraph (5) of that Article) and Article 9-4, paragraphs (3) and (5) (including as followed in paragraph (6) of that Article) of the Supplementary Provisions of that Act, and in Article 18, paragraph (3), Article 19, paragraphs (3) and (5), Article 20, paragraphs (3) and (5), Article 20-2, paragraphs (3) and (5) and Article 27, paragraphs (15) through (17) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 1994 Amendment Act), in Article 50-2, paragraphs (1) and (3) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act, and in Article 2, paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the National Pension Act, etc. (Act No. 27 of 2010) is deemed to be replaced with "spouse", and the provisions of Article 44, paragraph (4), item (iv) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act (including as applied mutatis mutandis in Article 50-2, paragraph (4) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act) do not apply.

①In the case of applying the provisions of Article 14, paragraph (1) (limited to item (i)) of the Supplementary Provisions, Article 44, paragraph (1) or (3) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act (including as applied mutatis mutandis in Article 9-2, paragraph (3), Article 9-3, paragraphs (2) and (4) (including as followed in paragraph (5) of that Article) and Article 9-4, paragraphs (3) and (5) (including as followed in paragraph (6) of that Article) of the Supplementary Provisions of that Act, and in Article 18, paragraph (3), Article 19, paragraphs (3) and (5), Article 20, paragraphs (3) and (5), Article 20-2, paragraphs (3) and (5) and Article 27, paragraphs (15) through (17) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 1994 Amendment Act), Article 46, paragraph (6) or Article 62, paragraph (1) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act, or Article 16 of the Supplementary Provisions of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act, to a person who falls under any of Article 12, paragraph (1), items (iv) through (vii) of the Supplementary Provisions, if the number of months of the insured period forming the basis of calculating the amount of that person's employees' old-age pension is less than 240, that number of months is deemed to be 240.

②In the case of calculating the amount listed in Article 59, paragraph (2), item (i) of the Supplementary Provisions and the amount listed in Article 9-2, paragraph (2), item (i) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act (including as followed in Article 9-3, paragraphs (1) and (3) of the Supplementary Provisions of that Act (including as followed in paragraph (5) of that Article), Article 9-4, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of that Act (including as followed in Article 28-3, paragraph (2) and Article 28-4, paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisions of that Act) and Article 9-4, paragraph (4) of the Supplementary Provisions of that Act (including as followed in paragraph (6) of that Article), and in Article 18, paragraph (2), Article 19, paragraphs (2) and (4), Article 20, paragraphs (2) and (4) and Article 20-2, paragraphs (2) and (4) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 1994 Amendment Act), out of the amount of an employees' old-age pension to be paid to a person who falls under any of Article 12, paragraph (1), items (iv) through (vii) of the Supplementary Provisions, if the number of months of the insured period forming the basis of calculating the amount of that person's employees' old-age pension is less than 240, that number of months is 240.

①With regard to the application of Article 46, paragraph (1) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act, Article 46, paragraph (5) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act prior to amendment by the provisions of Article 1 of the 2013 Amendment Act that remains in force pursuant to the provisions of Article 86, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 2013 Amendment Act, Article 133-2, paragraphs (2) and (3) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act prior to amendment by the provisions of Article 1 of the 2013 Amendment Act that remain in force pursuant to the provisions of Article 5, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 2013 Amendment Act, and Article 163-3, paragraph (1) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act prior to amendment by the provisions of Article 1 of the 2013 Amendment Act that remains in force pursuant to the provisions of Article 61, paragraph (3) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 2013 Amendment Act, relating to an employees' old-age pension (excluding one under the provisions of Article 8 of the Supplementary Provisions of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act and one specified by Cabinet Order), for the time being, the phrase "and additional amounts provided for in Article 44-3, paragraph (4)" in Article 46, paragraph (1) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act is deemed to be replaced with ", additional amounts provided for in Article 44-3, paragraph (4) (hereinafter referred to as the 'deferral addition') and additional amounts provided for in Article 59, paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the National Pension Act, etc. (Act No. 34 of 1985) (hereinafter referred to as the 'transitional addition')", and the phrase "(excluding the additional amount provided for in paragraph (4) of that Article)" in that paragraph with "(excluding the deferral addition and the transitional addition)"; the phrase "and additional amounts provided for in Article 44-3, paragraph (4)" in Article 46, paragraph (5) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act prior to amendment by the provisions of Article 1 of the 2013 Amendment Act that remains in force pursuant to the provisions of Article 86, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 2013 Amendment Act is deemed to be replaced with ", additional amounts provided for in Article 44-3, paragraph (4) (hereinafter referred to as the 'deferral addition') and additional amounts provided for in Article 59, paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the National Pension Act, etc. (Act No. 34 of 1985) (hereinafter referred to as the 'transitional addition')", the phrase "and additional amounts provided for in Article 44-3, paragraph (4) (hereinafter in this paragraph referred to as the 'deferral addition')" in that paragraph with ", additional amounts provided for in Article 44-3, paragraph (4) (including as applied with replaced terms pursuant to the provisions of Article 87 of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the Employees' Pension Insurance Act, etc. for Ensuring the Soundness and Reliability of the Public Pension System (Act No. 63 of 2013)) (hereinafter referred to as the 'deferral addition') and additional amounts provided for in Article 59, paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the National Pension Act, etc. (Act No. 34 of 1985) (hereinafter referred to as the 'transitional addition')", the phrase "and the deferral addition" in that paragraph with ", the deferral addition and the transitional addition", the phrase "the additional amount provided for in that paragraph" in that paragraph with "the deferral addition and the transitional addition", and the phrase "(the deferral addition" in that paragraph with "(the deferral addition and the transitional addition"; the phrase "or additional amounts provided for in Article 44-3, paragraph (4) (hereinafter in this paragraph and the following paragraph referred to as the 'deferral addition')" in Article 133-2, paragraph (2) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act prior to amendment by the provisions of Article 1 of the 2013 Amendment Act that remains in force pursuant to the provisions of Article 5, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 2013 Amendment Act is deemed to be replaced with ", the deferral addition or the transitional addition", and the phrase "and the deferral addition" in that paragraph with ", the deferral addition and the transitional addition"; the phrase "and the deferral addition" in Article 133-2, paragraph (3) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act prior to amendment by the provisions of Article 1 of the 2013 Amendment Act that remains in force pursuant to the provisions of Article 5, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 2013 Amendment Act is deemed to be replaced with ", the deferral addition and the transitional addition", and the phrase "or the deferral addition" in that paragraph with ", the deferral addition or the transitional addition"; and the phrase "or additional amounts provided for in Article 44-3, paragraph (4) (hereinafter in this paragraph referred to as the 'deferral addition')" in Article 163-3, paragraph (1) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act prior to amendment by the provisions of Article 1 of the 2013 Amendment Act that remains in force pursuant to the provisions of Article 61, paragraph (3) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 2013 Amendment Act is deemed to be replaced with ", the deferral addition or the transitional addition", and the phrase "and the deferral addition" in that paragraph with ", the deferral addition and the transitional addition".

The provisions of Article 26, paragraphs (1), (2), (5) through (7) and (14) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 1994 Amendment Act apply mutatis mutandis to the month that includes a day on which the beneficiary of an employees' old-age pension prescribed in paragraph (1) of that Article (limited to a woman) is an insured covered by employees' pension insurance (limited to a person who has had the status of an insured continuously from a day that fell in the month before the previous month), in the case where that person is able to receive payment of a basic continuous employment benefit for the elderly or a re-employment benefit for the elderly under the provisions of the Mariners Insurance Act prior to amendment by Article 4 of the Act Partially Amending the Employment Insurance Act, etc. (Act No. 30 of 2007), with respect to which the provisions then in force continue to govern pursuant to Article 42, paragraph (4) or (5) of the Supplementary Provisions of that Act. In this case, necessary technical replacement of terms in connection with those provisions is specified by Cabinet Order.

①With respect to a person who was born on or before April 1, 1926, or who, on the day preceding the Effective Date, had the right to receive an old-age pension under the former Employees' Pension Insurance Act, an old-age pension under the former Mariners Insurance Act, or a retirement pension (limited to one whose beneficiary had reached 55 years of age on that day) or reduced retirement pension (limited to one whose beneficiary had reached 55 years of age on that day) paid by a mutual aid Association, the provisions of Chapter III, Section 2 and Article 58, paragraph (1), item (iv) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act, Article 8 and Article 28-3 of the Supplementary Provisions of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act, and Articles 15 and 16 of the Supplementary Provisions of the 1994 Amendment Act do not apply, and the provisions of the former Employees' Pension Insurance Act concerning the requirements for payment of old-age pensions, aggregated old-age pensions and special old-age pensions under the former Employees' Pension Insurance Act, and the provisions of other laws concerning the requirements for payment of those pension insurance benefits that have been repealed or amended by this Act (including provisions of orders based on those provisions), remain in force with respect to those persons.

②In applying the provisions of Article 46-3 of the former Employees' Pension Insurance Act that remain in force pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the phrase "25 years" in item (i), (a) of that Article is deemed to be replaced with "10 years", and beyond this, necessary technical replacement of terms concerning the application of the provisions that remain in force pursuant to the provisions of that paragraph is specified by Cabinet Order.

③With respect to a person prescribed in paragraph (1) whose standardized remuneration has been revised or decided pursuant to the provisions of Article 78-6, paragraphs (1) and (2) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act, in applying Article 42, paragraph (1) of the former Employees' Pension Insurance Act and Article 4, paragraph (1) of the former Pension Aggregation General Rules Act that remain in force pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1), the phrase "insured period" in Article 42, paragraph (1) of the former Employees' Pension Insurance Act is deemed to be replaced with "insured period (excluding a period deemed to have been an insured period pursuant to the provisions of Article 78-6, paragraph (3) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act)" and the phrase "period deemed to be" in Article 4, paragraph (1) of the former Pension Aggregation General Rules Act with "period deemed to be (excluding a period deemed to have been an insured period pursuant to the provisions of Article 78-6, paragraph (3) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act)", and beyond this, necessary replacement of terms and other necessary matters concerning the application of the provisions that remain in force pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) are specified by Cabinet Order.

①In the case of applying the provisions of the proviso to Article 47, paragraph (1) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act (including as applied mutatis mutandis in Article 47-2, paragraph (2), Article 47-3, paragraph (2), Article 52, paragraph (5), Article 54, paragraph (3) and Article 55, paragraph (2) of that Act) to a disability resulting from an injury or illness for which the day of initial examination falls before April 1, 2036, the phrase "does not comprise at least two-thirds of the relevant insured period" in the proviso to Article 47, paragraph (1) of that Act is deemed to be replaced with "does not comprise at least two-thirds of the relevant insured period (excluding the case where, on the day before that day of initial examination, there is no insured period under National Pension other than the premium-paid period and premium-exemption period within the one-year period up to the month two months before the month that includes that day of initial examination)"; provided, however, that this does not apply where the person pertaining to the disability is 65 years of age or older on that day of initial examination.

②In the case of applying the provisions of the proviso to Article 58, paragraph (1) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act to the death of a person who died before April 1, 2036, the phrase "does not comprise at least two-thirds of the relevant insured period" in the proviso to that paragraph is deemed to be replaced with "does not comprise at least two-thirds of the relevant insured period (excluding the case where, on the day before that day of death, there is no insured period under National Pension other than the premium-paid period and premium-exemption period within the one-year period up to the month two months before the month that includes that day of death (or, for a person who was not an insured under National Pension on that day of death, the one-year period up to the month of the most recent insured period under National Pension on or before the month two months before the month that includes that day of death))"; provided, however, that this does not apply where the person pertaining to the death is 65 years of age or older on that day of death.

In the case of applying the provisions of the preceding Article, the proviso to Article 47, paragraph (1) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act (including as applied mutatis mutandis in Article 47-2, paragraph (2), Article 47-3, paragraph (2), Article 52, paragraph (5), Article 54, paragraph (3) and Article 55, paragraph (2) of that Act; the same applies hereinafter in this Article) and the proviso to Article 58, paragraph (1) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act to a disability resulting from an injury or illness for which the day of initial examination falls before May 1, 1991, or to a person who died before that day, the phrase "the month two months before the month" in the preceding Article, in the proviso to Article 47, paragraph (1) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act and in the proviso to Article 58, paragraph (1) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act is deemed to be replaced with "the month preceding the most recent reference month (meaning January, April, July and October) before the month".

An employees' disability pension under Article 47-2, paragraph (1) of the new Employees' Pension Insurance Act is not paid, notwithstanding the provisions of Article 47-2, paragraph (1) of the new Employees' Pension Insurance Act, to a person who has at any time had the right to receive a disability pension under the former Employees' Pension Insurance Act (including one that the government as the executor of employees' pension insurance is to pay pursuant to the provisions of Article 87, paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisions) or a disability pension under the former National Pension Act for a disability resulting from the same injury or illness.

Necessary transitional measures for the application of the provisions of Articles 47 through 47-3 and Article 55 of the new Employees' Pension Insurance Act to a disability resulting from an injury or illness for which the day on which the person contracted the illness or suffered the injury falls before the Effective Date, or to a disability resulting from an injury or illness for which the day of initial examination falls before the Effective Date, are specified by Cabinet Order.

①Where a person who contracted an illness or suffered an injury due to a cause related to duty or while commuting during the period of being an insured under Mariners Insurance has, before the Effective Date, already passed one year and six months counting from the day of initial examination for that injury or illness, and that injury or illness has not healed, and on the Effective Date the person has a disability of a degree of severity that is classified as any of the disability grades prescribed in Article 47, paragraph (2) of the new Employees' Pension Insurance Act, the person is deemed to fall under the provisions of that Article, and the employees' disability pension under that Article is paid to the person. In this case, the phrase "the day of disability assessment for the disability that constitutes the grounds for payment of the relevant employees' disability pension" in Article 51 of that Act is deemed to be replaced with "April 1, 1986".

②Payment of an employees' disability pension paid pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph is suspended during the period in which its beneficiary has the right to receive a disability pension prescribed in Article 40, paragraph (2) of the former Mariners Insurance Act.

①The provisions of Article 48, paragraph (1), Article 49, paragraph (1) and Article 51 of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act apply mutatis mutandis where grounds have occurred for paying a further employees' disability pension (limited to the case of having a disability of a degree of severity that is classified as Grade 1 or Grade 2 of the disability grades prescribed in Article 47, paragraph (2) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act; the same applies in the following paragraph) to a person who is able to receive a disability pension under the former Employees' Pension Insurance Act for which the grounds for payment occurred before the Effective Date (including one that the government as the executor of employees' pension insurance is to pay pursuant to the provisions of Article 87, paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisions; the same applies in the following paragraph) and that is specified by Cabinet Order as equivalent to a basic disability pension.

②When grounds have occurred for paying a further basic disability pension or employees' disability pension to a person who is able to receive a disability pension under the former Employees' Pension Insurance Act for which the grounds for payment occurred before April 1, 1961 and that is specified by Cabinet Order as equivalent to a basic disability pension, the amount of the disability pension so specified by Cabinet Order is revised, in accordance with the severity of the disabilities stemming from a combination of the previous and subsequent disabilities, following the example of the provisions of Article 52 of the former Employees' Pension Insurance Act; provided, however, that where the newly acquired basic disability pension or employees' disability pension is one whose payment is to be suspended pursuant to the provisions of Article 36, paragraph (1) of the new National Pension Act or Article 54, paragraph (1) of the new Employees' Pension Insurance Act, this does not apply until the period for which it is to be suspended has elapsed.

With regard to the application of the provisions of Article 51 of the new Employees' Pension Insurance Act, for the time being, the phrase "the day of disability assessment for the disability that constitutes the grounds for payment of the relevant employees' disability pension (or, for" in that Article is deemed to be replaced with "the day of disability assessment for the disability that constitutes the grounds for payment of the relevant employees' disability pension (or, for the employees' disability pension under the provisions of Article 47-2, paragraph (1), whichever is the later of that day of disability assessment or March 31, 1986; or, for", the phrase "the days of disability assessment for each of the combined disabilities (or, for" with "the days of disability assessment for each of the combined disabilities (or, for a disability provided for in Article 47-2, paragraph (1), March 31, 1986 where that day of disability assessment falls before April 1, 1986; or, for", and the phrase "the day of disability assessment for the base disability provided for in that paragraph)" with "the day of disability assessment for the base disability provided for in that paragraph is to be used)".

①With regard to the application of the provisions of Article 56 of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act, pension insurance benefits under the former Employees' Pension Insurance Act (including pension insurance benefits that the government as the executor of employees' pension insurance is to pay pursuant to the provisions of Article 87, paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisions) are deemed to be pension insurance benefits under Article 56, item (i) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act.

②In applying the provisions of Article 56 of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act as amended by the provisions of Article 2 of the 1994 Amendment Act to the beneficiary of a disability pension under the former Employees' Pension Insurance Act (excluding a disability pension that the government as the executor of employees' pension insurance is to pay pursuant to the provisions of Article 87, paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisions) that is deemed, pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, to be a pension insurance benefit under Article 56, item (i) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act, the phrase "a disability of a degree of severity that is classified as any disability grade (having that disability is hereinafter referred to in this Article" in item (i) of that Article is deemed to be replaced with "a disability of the degree of severity specified in Appended Table 1 of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act prior to amendment by the provisions of Article 3 of the Act Partially Amending the National Pension Act, etc. (Act No. 34 of 1985; hereinafter in this item referred to as the '1985 Amendment Act') (hereinafter in this item referred to as the 'former Employees' Pension Insurance Act') (having that disability is hereinafter referred to in this item", and the phrase "employees' disability pension" in that item with "disability pension under the former Employees' Pension Insurance Act (excluding a disability pension that the government as the executor of employees' pension insurance is to pay pursuant to the provisions of Article 87, paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 1985 Amendment Act)".

③In applying the provisions of Article 56 of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act as amended by the provisions of Article 2 of the 1994 Amendment Act to the beneficiary of a disability pension that the government as the executor of employees' pension insurance is to pay pursuant to the provisions of Article 87, paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisions and that is deemed, pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1), to be a pension insurance benefit under Article 56, item (i) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act, the phrase "a disability of a degree of severity that is classified as any disability grade (having that disability is hereinafter referred to in this Article" in item (i) of that Article is deemed to be replaced with "a disability of the degree of severity for receiving a disability pension under the Mariners Insurance Act prior to amendment by the provisions of Article 5 of the Act Partially Amending the National Pension Act, etc. (Act No. 34 of 1985; hereinafter in this item referred to as the '1985 Amendment Act') (having that disability is hereinafter referred to in this item", and the phrase "employees' disability pension" in that item with "disability pension that the government as the executor of employees' pension insurance is to pay pursuant to the provisions of Article 87, paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 1985 Amendment Act".

④With regard to the application of the provisions of Article 56 of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act, for the time being, the phrase "benefits to be paid due to a disability pursuant to the provisions of the Mariners Insurance Act" in item (iii) of that Article is deemed to be replaced with "benefits to be paid due to a disability pursuant to the provisions of the Mariners Insurance Act (excluding those that the government as the executor of employees' pension insurance is to pay pursuant to the provisions of Article 87, paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the National Pension Act, etc. (Act No. 34 of 1985))".

①Necessary transitional measures concerning payment of an employees' pension for surviving family in the case where a beneficiary of a disability pension under the former Employees' Pension Insurance Act who is in a state of disability of Grade 1 or Grade 2 as provided for in Appended Table 1 of that Act, a person who, after losing the status of an insured under employees' pension insurance, died of an injury or illness that arose while the person was an insured under employees' pension insurance (limited to one that arose before the Effective Date) before the day on which five years elapse counting from the day of initial examination, a person born on or before April 1, 1926 who satisfies the insured period prescribed in any of Article 42, paragraph (1), items (i) through (iii) of that Act, or any other person specified by Cabinet Order dies on or after the Effective Date are specified by Cabinet Order.

②In applying the provisions of Article 59, paragraph (1) of the new Employees' Pension Insurance Act to the death of a person who died before April 1, 1996, the phrase "being 55 years of age or older" in item (i) of that paragraph is deemed to be replaced with "being 55 years of age or older, or having a disability classified as Grade 1 or Grade 2 of the disability grades".

③With regard to the cessation of an employees' pension for surviving family for the surviving family member prescribed in Article 59, paragraph (1) of the new Employees' Pension Insurance Act as read pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the provisions of Article 63, paragraph (3) of the former Employees' Pension Insurance Act remain in force. In this case, the phrase "Grade 1 or Grade 2 as provided for in Appended Table 1" in that paragraph is deemed to be replaced with "classified as Grade 1 or Grade 2 of the disability grades", and the phrase "60 years of age" with "55 years of age".

④While a husband, parent or grandparent who is a surviving family member prescribed in Article 59, paragraph (1) of the new Employees' Pension Insurance Act as read pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (2) has been continuously in a state of disability classified as Grade 1 or Grade 2 of the disability grades since the time the person acquired the right to receive benefits from an employees' pension for surviving family, the provisions of Article 65-2 of that Act do not apply to that person.

①When a beneficiary of an employees' pension for surviving family prescribed in Article 62, paragraph (1) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act who is listed in the upper column of Appended Table 9 of the Supplementary Provisions (limited to a person who was the wife of a deceased insured under employees' pension insurance or former insured) was 65 years of age or older at the time the person acquired that right, or when a beneficiary of an employees' pension for surviving family to which an amount has been added pursuant to the provisions of that paragraph who is listed in the upper column of that table reaches 65 years of age, the amount of that employees' pension for surviving family is, notwithstanding the provisions of Article 60, paragraph (1) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act, the amount arrived at by applying the provisions of that paragraph, treating the amount prescribed in item (i) of that paragraph as the amount obtained by adding to that amount the amount obtained by deducting the amount set forth in item (ii) of this paragraph from the amount set forth in item (i) of this paragraph; provided, however, that if the beneficiary of that employees' pension for surviving family holds the right to receive benefits from a basic disability pension under the National Pension Act or a disability pension under the former National Pension Act (excluding while payment of it is suspended), payment of the portion equivalent to the amount to be added is suspended during that time.

②In the case referred to in the preceding paragraph, the provisions of Article 65 of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act apply mutatis mutandis.

③When a beneficiary of an employees' pension for surviving family to which an amount has been added pursuant to the provisions of Article 62, paragraph (1) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act reaches 65 years of age, the revision of the amount of pension under the provisions of paragraph (1) is made from the month following the month that includes the day on which the person reaches 65 years of age.

①The amount of an employees' pension for surviving family to be paid to a spouse is, in the case where, at the time of the death of the relevant insured under employees' pension insurance or former insured, the spouse was living off the same financial resources as a child who satisfied the requirements prescribed in Article 59, paragraph (1) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act, and the spouse does not acquire the right to receive benefits from a basic pension for surviving family in connection with the death of the relevant insured under employees' pension insurance or former insured, notwithstanding the provisions of Article 60, paragraph (1), item (i) and Article 62, paragraph (1) of that Act, the amount calculated in the same manner as under those provisions plus the amount calculated in the same manner as under the provisions of Article 38 and Article 39, paragraph (1) of the National Pension Act.

②The amount of an employees' pension for surviving family to be paid to a child is, in the case where the child does not acquire the right to receive benefits from a basic pension for surviving family in connection with the death of the relevant insured under employees' pension insurance or former insured, notwithstanding the provisions of Article 60, paragraph (1), item (i) and paragraph (2) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act, the amount calculated in the same manner as under those provisions plus the amount calculated in the same manner as under the provisions of Article 38 and Article 39-2, paragraph (1) of the National Pension Act.

③The provisions of Article 39, paragraphs (2) and (3), Article 39-2, paragraph (2), Article 40, Article 41, paragraph (2) and Article 41-2 of the new National Pension Act apply mutatis mutandis to the portion of an employees' pension for surviving family that is equivalent to the additional amount under the preceding two paragraphs.

④With regard to the application of the provisions of Article 65 of the new Employees' Pension Insurance Act (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to paragraph (2) of the preceding Article) to an employees' pension for surviving family to which an amount has been added pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1), the phrase "the beneficiary of an employees' pension for surviving family to which an additional amount has been added pursuant to the provisions of Article 62 paragraph (1) is the wife, and if she is entitled to receive a basic pension for surviving family under the National Pension Act in connection with the death of the relevant insured or former insured" in Article 65 of that Act is deemed to be replaced with "an employees' pension for surviving family to which an additional amount has been added pursuant to the provisions of Article 62 paragraph (1) is one to which an amount has been added pursuant to the provisions of Article 74, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the National Pension Act, etc. (Act No. 34 of 1985)".

⑤With regard to the application of the provisions of Article 66, paragraph (2) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act, for the time being, the phrase "employees' pension for surviving family to the spouse" in that paragraph is deemed to be replaced with "employees' pension for surviving family to the spouse (excluding one to which an amount has been added pursuant to the provisions of Article 74, 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'))", and the phrase "the basic pension for surviving family" with "the basic pension for surviving family or an employees' pension for surviving family to which an amount has been added pursuant to the provisions of Article 74, paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 1985 Amendment Act".

⑥The portion of an employees' pension for surviving family to which an amount has been added pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) or (2) that is equivalent to the additional amount under the provisions of paragraph (1) or (2) is deemed to be a basic pension for surviving family and not an employees' pension for surviving family, for the purpose of applying Article 20 of the National Pension Act, Article 38 of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act and other provisions equivalent to those provisions concerning the adjustment for combined benefits that are specified by Cabinet Order, and for the purpose of applying Article 63, paragraph (1), item (v) of that Act.

With regard to a person born on or before April 1, 1941, the provisions of the former Employees' Pension Insurance Act concerning the requirements for payment, amount and cessation of the right to receive benefits of a withdrawal allowance under that Act remain in force for that person. In this case, an employees' old-age pension is deemed to be an old-age pension or aggregated old-age pension under the former Employees' Pension Insurance Act and an employees' disability pension is deemed to be a disability pension under that Act, and, in addition, necessary technical replacement of terms for the application of those provisions is specified by Cabinet Order.

The provisions of Article 75 of the new Employees' Pension Insurance Act apply mutatis mutandis to insurance benefits under the new Employees' Pension Insurance Act based on a period during which a person was a class 3 insured person in the case where insurance premiums were collected for a class 3 insured person as a class 1 insured person, or based on a period during which a class 3 insured person prescribed in Article 3, paragraph (1), item (v) of the former Employees' Pension Insurance Act was that class 3 insured person in the case where insurance premiums were collected for that class 3 insured person as a class 1 insured person prescribed in item (i) of that paragraph. In this case, the phrase "acquisition of the status of an insured" in the proviso to Article 75 of that Act is deemed to be replaced with "change of insured category prescribed in Article 46 of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the National Pension Act, etc. (Act No. 34 of 1985)".

Necessary transitional measures concerning payment of a special pension for surviving family under the Employees' Pension Insurance Act in the case where a person born on or before April 1, 1926 who falls under Article 28-3, paragraph (1), item (i), (a) or (b) of the Supplementary Provisions of the former Employees' Pension Insurance Act, or any other person specified by Cabinet Order, dies on or after the Effective Date are specified by Cabinet Order.

①With regard to pension insurance benefits under the former Employees' Pension Insurance Act (including pension insurance benefits under that Act that remain in force pursuant to the provisions of Article 63, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions) and withdrawal allowances under that Act that remain in force pursuant to the provisions of Article 75 of the Supplementary Provisions, the provisions then in force continue to govern, except in the case of applying the provisions of the following paragraph through paragraph (10), paragraph (12), and Article 35, paragraphs (1) and (3), Article 56, paragraphs (2) and (6), Article 63, Article 69, paragraph (2) and Article 75 of the Supplementary Provisions, and except for matters concerning the expenses required for those benefits. The same applies to the surviving family of a person who has acquired the right to receive insurance benefits paid in the manner of the previous pension for surviving family, widow's pension, widower's pension or orphan's pension pursuant to the provisions of Article 16, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the former Employees' Pension Insurance Act, or the surviving family in the same order of priority or the next order of priority as that person, in the case where that person or that person's surviving family dies, loses the right to receive benefits, or comes to have unknown whereabouts. However, this does not apply when, in the case where that person dies, that person's surviving family is able to receive an employees' pension for surviving family under Article 58 of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act.

③The provisions of Article 35 of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act apply mutatis mutandis to pension insurance benefits prescribed in paragraph (1).

④Payment of pension insurance benefits prescribed in paragraph (1) is governed by the provisions of Article 36, paragraph (3) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act.

⑤The provisions of Article 44, paragraphs (1) and (3) of the former Employees' Pension Insurance Act (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 51, paragraph (2) of that Act) remain in force with regard to old-age pensions and disability pensions under that Act, and the provisions of Article 59, paragraph (1), Article 62, paragraph (1) and Article 63, paragraph (2) of that Act (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 68-6 of that Act; the same applies hereinafter in this paragraph) remain in force with regard to pensions for surviving family and aggregated pensions for surviving family under that Act, respectively. In this case, the phrase "under 18 years of age" in Article 44, paragraph (1) of that Act and item (vii) of paragraph (3) of that Article is deemed to be replaced with "who is within the period until the first March 31 on or after the day on which the person reaches 18 years of age", the phrase "reached 18 years of age" in item (vi) of that paragraph and Article 63, paragraph (2), item (i) of that Act with "the first March 31 on or after the day on which the person reached 18 years of age has ended", in Article 44, paragraph (1) of that Act as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 51, paragraph (2) of that Act, the phrase "the beneficiary at the time the beneficiary acquired that right" with "the beneficiary", the phrase "maintained" with "maintains", the phrase "under 18 years of age" with "who is within the period until the first March 31 on or after the day on which the person reaches 18 years of age", and the phrase "calculated" with "calculated, and if the amount of additional pension comes to be added because the beneficiary, on or after the day following the day on which the beneficiary acquired that right, has come to have a spouse or child who is maintained by the beneficiary, the amount of the pension is revised from the month following the month that includes the day on which the beneficiary came to have that spouse or child", in Article 44, paragraph (3), item (vi) of that Act as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 51, paragraph (2) of that Act, the phrase "continuously since the time the beneficiary acquired that right, Appended Table 1" with "Appended Table 1" and the phrase "reached 18 years of age" with "the first March 31 on or after the day on which the person reached 18 years of age has ended", in Article 44, paragraph (3), item (vii) of that Act as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 51, paragraph (2) of that Act, the phrase "under 18 years of age" with "who is within the period until the first March 31 on or after the day on which the person reaches 18 years of age", and in Article 59, paragraph (1), item (ii) and Article 63, paragraph (2), item (ii) of that Act, the phrase "is under 18 years of age" with "is within the period until the first March 31 on or after the day on which the person reaches 18 years of age".

⑦A person who is able to receive a disability pension specified by Cabinet Order among pension insurance benefits prescribed in paragraph (1) and who, on the day of initial examination of the injury or illness relating to the other disability prescribed in Article 52, paragraph (4) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act and the proviso to Article 54, paragraph (2) of that Act (limited to a case where that day is before April 1, 1986), was an insured under the National Pension (including a person who has an insured period under the National Pension before that day of initial examination and who, on that day of initial examination, had an address in Japan and was 60 years of age or older and under 65 years of age), an insured under employees' pension insurance or an insured under Mariners Insurance (excluding an insured under the provisions of Article 19-3 of the former Mariners Insurance Act), or a member of a mutual aid Association (including a member with optional and continued coverage of the Mutual Aid Association for Employees of Agricultural, Forestry and Fishery Organizations) is deemed, for the purpose of applying the provisions of Article 52, paragraphs (1) and (4) and the proviso to Article 54, paragraph (2) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act, to be a beneficiary of an employees' disability pension who was an insured on that day of initial examination.

⑧The provisions of Article 53 of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act apply mutatis mutandis to disability pensions among the pension insurance benefits prescribed in paragraph (1). In this case, the phrase "Article 48, paragraph (2)" in that Article is deemed to be replaced with "Article 48, paragraph (2) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act prior to amendment by the provisions of Article 3 of the Act Partially Amending the National Pension Act, etc. (Act No. 34 of 1985)", and the phrase "is classified as any disability grade" with "is specified in Appended Table 1 of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act prior to that amendment".

⑨The provisions of Article 78-10 of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act apply mutatis mutandis to the beneficiary of pension insurance benefits prescribed in paragraph (1). In this case, necessary replacement of terms is specified by Cabinet Order.

⑩In the case where the standardized remuneration of the beneficiary of pension insurance benefits prescribed in paragraph (1) has been revised or decided pursuant to the provisions of Article 78-6, paragraphs (1) and (2) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act, with regard to the application of Article 34, paragraph (1), item (i) of the former Employees' Pension Insurance Act that remains in force pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (2), the phrase "insured period" in that item is deemed to be replaced with "insured period (excluding a period deemed to have been an insured period pursuant to the provisions of Article 78-6, paragraph (3) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act)", and beyond this, necessary replacement of terms and other necessary matters concerning the application of the provisions that remain in force pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (2) (including where those provisions are cited in other laws and regulations) are specified by Cabinet Order.

⑪With regard to pension insurance benefits under the former Employees' Pension Insurance Act that were to be paid before the Effective Date, and lump-sum insurance benefits under the former Employees' Pension Insurance Act that have not yet been paid as of that day, the provisions then in force continue to govern.

⑫With regard to the application of Article 98, paragraph (4) of the new Employees' Pension Insurance Act where a person who has the right to receive a pension insurance benefit or withdrawal allowance under the former Employees' Pension Insurance Act prescribed in paragraph (1), or a pension insurance benefit or lump-sum insurance benefit under the former Employees' Pension Insurance Act prescribed in the preceding paragraph, dies on or after the Effective Date, that person is deemed to be the beneficiary prescribed in that paragraph, and with regard to the application of Article 100, paragraph (1) of the new Employees' Pension Insurance Act, those benefits are deemed to be the insurance benefits prescribed in that paragraph.

In the case of calculating the amount of an old-age pension, aggregated old-age pension or special old-age pension under the former Employees' Pension Insurance Act to be paid to a person prescribed in Article 63, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions who has a period as an insured covered by employees' pension insurance on or after April 1, 2003, the amount specified in Article 34, paragraph (1), item (ii) of the former Employees' Pension Insurance Act that remains in force pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (2) of the preceding Article is, notwithstanding those provisions, the sum of the amounts listed in the following items: