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 standard monthly 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 standard monthly 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 standard monthly remuneration on or after April 1986 of a class 4 insured person whose standard monthly 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):