①With regard to pension insurance benefits under the former Mariners Insurance Act (including pension insurance benefits under that Act which remain in force pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) of the preceding Article) and the withdrawal allowance under that Act which remains in force pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (5) of the preceding Article, the provisions then in force continue to govern, except in the case of applying the provisions of paragraphs (3) through (12) and paragraph (14), Article 35, paragraphs (1) and (3) of the Supplementary Provisions, Article 56, paragraph (2) and paragraphs (6) through (8) of the Supplementary Provisions, Article 69, paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisions and the preceding Article, and except for matters concerning the expenses required for those benefits.

②The pension insurance benefits and the withdrawal allowance prescribed in the preceding paragraph are paid by the government as the executor of employees' pension insurance.

④The provisions of Article 35 of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act apply mutatis mutandis to the pension insurance benefits prescribed in paragraph (1) (limited, for disability pensions and pensions for surviving family, to those arising from causes other than duty).

⑤With regard to payment of the pension insurance benefits prescribed in paragraph (1), the example of the provisions of Article 36, paragraph (3) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act is followed.

⑥The provisions of Article 36, paragraph (1) of the former Mariners Insurance Act remain in force with respect to an old-age pension under that Act, the provisions of Article 41-2, paragraph (1) of that Act with respect to a disability pension under that Act, and the provisions of Article 23, paragraph (2) and Article 50-4 of that Act (including where applied mutatis mutandis in Article 50-8-5 of that Act; the same applies hereinafter in this paragraph) with respect to a pension for surviving family and an aggregated pension for surviving family under that Act. In this case, the phrase "child or grandchild 18 years of age or older" in Article 23, paragraph (2), item (i) of that Act is deemed to be replaced with "child or grandchild (limited to one for whom the first March 31 after the day on which the person reached 18 years of age has ended)", the phrase "sibling 18 years of age or older but under 60 years of age" in item (iii) of that paragraph is deemed to be replaced with "sibling under 60 years of age (limited to one for whom the first March 31 after the day on which the person reached 18 years of age has ended)", the phrase "under 18 years of age" in Article 36, paragraph (1) of that Act is deemed to be replaced with "who is in the period until the first March 31 after the day on which the person reaches 18 years of age", the phrase "18 years of age or older" is deemed to be replaced with "the first March 31 after the day on which the person reached 18 years of age having ended", the phrase "under 18 years of age" in Article 41-2, paragraph (1) of that Act is deemed to be replaced with "who is in the period until the first March 31 after the day on which the person reaches 18 years of age", the phrase "the person receiving payment, at the time when that person became disabled" is deemed to be replaced with "the person receiving payment", the phrase "maintained" is deemed to be replaced with "maintains", the phrase "is added to the amount" is deemed to be replaced with "is added to the amount, and where, by reason of the person receiving a disability pension coming to have the spouse or child concerned on or after the day following the day on which that person became disabled, the amount comes to be added, the amount of the disability pension is revised from the month following the month containing the day on which that person came to have the spouse or child concerned", the phrase "continuing from the time when the person receiving a disability pension became disabled, the lower column of Appended Table 4" is deemed to be replaced with "the lower column of Appended Table 4", the phrase "18 years of age or older" is deemed to be replaced with "the first March 31 after the day on which the person reached 18 years of age having ended", and the phrase "reached 18 years of age" in Article 50-4, item (v) of that Act is deemed to be replaced with "the first March 31 after the day on which the person reached 18 years of age having ended".

⑦The provisions of Article 78, paragraph (6) of the Supplementary Provisions apply mutatis mutandis to the pension insurance benefits prescribed in paragraph (1). In this case, necessary technical replacement of terms is specified by Cabinet Order.

⑧A person who is entitled to receive a disability pension specified by Cabinet Order among the pension insurance benefits prescribed in paragraph (1) and who, on the day of initial examination for the injury or illness relating to the other disability prescribed in Article 52, paragraph (4) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act and Article 54, paragraph (2), proviso of that Act (limited to a day 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 a domicile in Japan and was 60 years of age or older but under 65), 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 Article 54, paragraph (2), proviso of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act, to be a beneficiary of an employees' disability pension who was an insured on the day of initial examination.

⑨The 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 "In addition to the right to receive benefits from an employees' disability pension ceasing to exist pursuant to the provisions of Article 48, paragraph (2), this right ceases to exist if the beneficiary" in that Article is deemed to be replaced with "the right to receive benefits from an employees' disability pension ceases to exist if the beneficiary", and the phrase "that is classified as any disability grade" is deemed to be replaced with "for which a disability pension is received under the Mariners Insurance Act prior to the amendment by Article 5 of the Act Partially Amending the National Pension Act, etc. (Act No. 34 of 1985)".

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

⑪In the case where the standardized monthly amount of remuneration under the former Mariners Insurance Act, which pursuant to the provisions of Article 49 of the Supplementary Provisions has been deemed to be the standardized monthly amount of remuneration under the Employees' Pension Insurance Act of a beneficiary of the pension insurance benefits prescribed in paragraph (1), has been revised pursuant to the provisions of Article 78-6, paragraphs (1) and (2) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act, the replacement of terms necessary for the application of the provisions that remain in force pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (3) (including where other laws and regulations cite those provisions), and other necessary matters, are specified by Cabinet Order.

⑫With regard to a pension for surviving family under the provisions of the items of Article 50, paragraph (1) of the former Mariners Insurance Act (excluding item (iii)), notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (1), the latter part of Article 50-4 of that Act does not apply.

⑬With regard to pension insurance benefits under the former Mariners Insurance Act that should have been paid before the Effective Date, and a withdrawal allowance and a disability allowance for causes other than duty under the former Mariners Insurance Act that have not yet been paid as of that day, the provisions then in force continue to govern, and those pension insurance benefits, withdrawal allowance and disability allowance for causes other than duty are paid by the government as the executor of employees' pension insurance.

⑭In the case where a person who holds the right to receive pension insurance benefits or a withdrawal allowance under the former Mariners Insurance Act prescribed in paragraph (1), or pension insurance benefits, a withdrawal allowance or a disability allowance for causes other than duty under that Act prescribed in the preceding paragraph, dies on or after the Effective Date, for the purpose of applying Article 98, paragraph (4) of the new Employees' Pension Insurance Act that person is deemed to be a beneficiary prescribed in that paragraph, and for the purpose of applying Article 100, paragraph (1) of that Act those benefits are deemed to be insurance benefits prescribed in that paragraph.

⑮With regard to payment of an injury or illness allowance under the former Mariners Insurance Act, in the case where a beneficiary of that injury or illness allowance can receive, for the injury arising from that injury or illness, a disability pension under the former Mariners Insurance Act that is to be paid by the government as the executor of employees' pension insurance pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (2), or was able to receive a disability allowance for causes other than duty under the former Mariners Insurance Act (including where the person can receive a disability allowance for causes other than duty under the former Mariners Insurance Act that is to be paid by the government as the executor of employees' pension insurance pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (11)), the provisions then in force continue to govern.