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.