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.