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)).