①This Act comes into effect on the date of promulgation; provided, however, that the provisions set forth in the following items come into effect on the dates specified respectively in those items:

②The provisions set forth in the following items apply from the dates specified respectively in those items:

With regard to the pension insurance benefits under the Employees' Pension Insurance Act for the months of September 1994 or earlier, and the amount of the pension insurance benefits prescribed in Article 78, paragraph (1) and Article 87, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 1985 Amendment Act, the provisions then in force continue to govern.

①The standardized remuneration of a person who acquired the status of an insured covered by employees' pension insurance before the first day of the month containing the Effective Date and has continuously held that status up to that day (excluding a person who holds the status of that insured under Article 15, paragraph (1) of the former Employees' Pension Insurance Act, which remains in force pursuant to the provisions of Article 43, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 1985 Amendment Act, or under Article 43, paragraph (2) or (5) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 1985 Amendment Act (hereinafter referred to as a "class 4 insured person"), and a person who holds the status of that insured under Article 44, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 1985 Amendment Act (hereinafter referred to as a "voluntarily continued mariner insured person")) and whose standardized monthly amount of remuneration for the month preceding the month containing the Effective Date is 86,000 yen or less, or is 530,000 yen (excluding a person for whom the amount of monthly remuneration forming the basis of that standardized monthly amount of remuneration is less than 545,000 yen), is revised by the prefectural governor, with the amount of monthly remuneration forming the basis of that standardized monthly amount of remuneration deemed to be the amount of monthly remuneration forming the basis of standardized remuneration under Article 20 of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act as amended by the provisions of Article 2.

②The standardized remuneration revised pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph is the standardized remuneration for each month from the month containing the Effective Date to September 1995.

③The standardized monthly amount of remuneration, from the month following the month containing the Effective Date, of a class 4 insured person or a voluntarily continued mariner insured person whose standardized monthly amount of remuneration is less than 92,000 yen is 92,000 yen, notwithstanding Article 26 of the former Employees' Pension Insurance Act, which remains in force pursuant to the provisions of Article 50, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 1985 Amendment Act, and Article 50, paragraph (3) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 1985 Amendment Act.

①In the case where a person who has at some time held the right to receive an employees' disability pension under the Employees' Pension Insurance Act before the Effective Date (excluding a person who holds the right to receive that employees' disability pension on the Effective Date) has, on the Effective Date, due to the injury or illness that was the grounds for payment of that employees' disability pension, a disability of a degree of severity that is classified as a disability grade prescribed in Article 47, paragraph (2) of that Act (hereinafter in this Article referred to simply as a "disability grade"), or comes to have a disability of a degree of severity that is classified as a disability grade during the period from the day following the Effective Date until the day before the day on which the person reaches 65 years of age, the person may request payment of the employees' disability pension under Article 47, paragraph (1) of that Act during the period from the Effective Date (or, for a person who does not have a disability of a degree of severity that is classified as a disability grade on the Effective Date, from when the person comes to have a disability of a degree of severity that is classified as a disability grade) until the day before the day on which the person reaches 65 years of age.

②In the case where a person who has at some time held, before the Effective Date, the right to receive a disability pension under the former Employees' Pension Insurance Act (including one that is to be paid by the government that administers employees' pension insurance pursuant to the provisions of Article 87, paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 1985 Amendment Act and one specified by Cabinet Order as equivalent thereto; hereinafter in this paragraph referred to as a "disability pension under the former Act") (excluding a person who holds the right to receive that disability pension under the former Act on the Effective Date) has, on the Effective Date, due to the injury or illness that was the grounds for payment of that disability pension under the former Act, a disability of a degree of severity that is classified as a disability grade, or comes to have a disability of a degree of severity that is classified as a disability grade during the period from the day following the Effective Date until the day before the day on which the person reaches 65 years of age, the person may request payment of the employees' disability pension under Article 47, paragraph (1) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act during the period from the Effective Date (or, for a person who does not have a disability of a degree of severity that is classified as a disability grade on the Effective Date, from when the person comes to have a disability of a degree of severity that is classified as a disability grade) until the day before the day on which the person reaches 65 years of age.

③When a request under the preceding two paragraphs has been made, notwithstanding Article 47, paragraph (1) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act, the employees' disability pension under that paragraph is paid to the person who made the request.

①In the case where a person under 60 years of age (limited to a person born on or before April 1, 1946) who has a period as an insured mine worker prescribed in Article 7-3, paragraph (1), item (iii) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act (hereinafter simply referred to as an "insured mine worker") or a period as a mariner insured prescribed in that item (hereinafter simply referred to as a "mariner insured") comes to fall under all of the following items, an employees' old-age pension under Article 8 of the Supplementary Provisions of that Act is paid to that person, deeming that person to fall under that Article.

②With regard to the calculation of the period as an insured mine worker or the period as a mariner insured prescribed in the preceding paragraph, the provisions of Article 9-4, paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act apply mutatis mutandis.

With regard to the application of Article 9, paragraph (1), item (i) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act as amended by the provisions of Article 2, for the time being, the phrase "444" in that item is deemed to be replaced with "444 (432 if the beneficiary of that employees' old-age pension was born on or before April 1, 1934)".

①The provisions of Article 43, paragraph (1) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act and Articles 9-2 through 9-4 of the Supplementary Provisions of that Act do not apply to an employees' old-age pension under Article 8 of the Supplementary Provisions of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act (excluding one under Article 15 of the Supplementary Provisions; the same applies hereinafter in this Article) when its beneficiary (excluding a person to whom Article 33, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the Employees' Pension Insurance Act, etc. to Unify, etc. the Employees' Pension Systems (Act No. 63 of 2012; hereinafter referred to as the "2012 Pension Unification Act") (including where it is to be followed pursuant to the provisions of Article 48-2 of the Private School Personnel Mutual Aid Association Act (Act No. 245 of 1953); the same applies hereinafter) or Article 57, paragraph (1) or (2) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 2012 Pension Unification Act applies) is a person falling under any of the following items.

②In the case prescribed in the preceding paragraph, the amount of that employees' old-age pension is calculated following the example of the provisions of Article 9-2, paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act. In this case, the phrase "480" in item (i) of that paragraph is deemed to be replaced with "480 (432 if the beneficiary of that employees' old-age pension was born on or before April 1, 1934, 444 if the person was born between April 2, 1934 and April 1, 1944, 456 if the person was born between April 2, 1944 and April 1, 1945, and 468 if the person was born between April 2, 1945 and April 1, 1946)".

③The provisions of Article 44 of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act and of Article 44-2 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 remains in force pursuant to the provisions of Article 86, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 2013 Amendment Act, apply mutatis mutandis where the provisions of the preceding paragraph are applied to an employees' old-age pension under Article 8 of the Supplementary Provisions of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act. In this case, in Article 44, paragraph (1) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act, the phrase "Article 43, paragraph (2) or (3)" is deemed to be replaced with "Article 43, paragraph (3)", the phrase "the provisions of Article 43" is deemed to be replaced with "the provisions of Article 9 of the Supplementary Provisions and Article 9-2, paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisions, which is followed pursuant to Article 18, paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the National Pension Act, etc. (Act No. 95 of 1994)", and the phrase "that Article" is deemed to be replaced with "those provisions"; and in Article 44-2, paragraph (1) 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 86, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 2013 Amendment Act, the phrase "the amount prescribed in Article 43, paragraph (1)" is deemed to be replaced with "the amount prescribed in Article 9-2, paragraph (2), item (ii) of the Supplementary Provisions, which is followed pursuant to Article 18, paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the National Pension Act, etc.", the phrase "the amount provided for in that paragraph, from" is deemed to be replaced with "the amount provided for in that item (hereinafter in this Article referred to as the "amount of the remuneration-based portion") from", the phrase "Article 132, paragraph (2)" is deemed to be replaced with "Article 82, paragraph (1) or Article 83-2, paragraph (1) 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"), Article 132, paragraph (2) prior to the amendment by Article 3 of the 1985 Amendment Act, which remains in force pursuant to the provisions of Article 83, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 1985 Amendment Act, Article 132, paragraph (2) prior to the amendment by Article 4 of the Act Partially Amending the National Pension Act, etc. (Act No. 18 of 2000; hereinafter referred to as the "2000 Amendment Act"), which remains in force pursuant to the provisions of Article 9, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 2000 Amendment Act, or Article 82, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 1985 Amendment Act prior to the amendment by Article 13 of the 2000 Amendment Act, Article 23, paragraph (1) or Article 24, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 2000 Amendment Act, or Article 132, paragraph (2) 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), which remains in force pursuant to the provisions of Article 5, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of that Act", the phrase "the amount provided for in Article 43, paragraph (1)" is deemed to be replaced with "the amount of the remuneration-based portion", and the phrase "the amount provided for in that paragraph)" is deemed to be replaced with "the amount of the remuneration-based portion)".

④With regard to the application of Article 28-2, paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act as Amended by the provisions of Article 3 (hereinafter referred to as the "Employees' Pension Insurance Act as Amended"), for the time being, the phrase "Article 44, paragraph (1)" in that paragraph is deemed to be replaced with "Article 44, paragraph (1) (including where applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 18, paragraph (3) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the National Pension Act, etc. (Act No. 95 of 1994))".

②In the case prescribed in the preceding paragraph, the amount of that employees' old-age pension is calculated following the example of the provisions of Article 9-2, paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act. In this case, the phrase "480" in item (i) of that paragraph is deemed to be replaced with "480 (444 if the beneficiary of that employees' old-age pension was born on or before April 1, 1944, 456 if the person was born between April 2, 1944 and April 1, 1945, and 468 if the person was born between April 2, 1945 and April 1, 1946)".

③The provisions of Article 44 of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act and of Article 44-2 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 86, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 2013 Amendment Act, apply mutatis mutandis where the provisions of the preceding paragraph are applied to an employees' old-age pension under Article 8 of the Supplementary Provisions of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act. In this case, in Article 44, paragraph (1) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act, the phrase "Article 43, paragraph (2) or (3)" is deemed to be replaced with "Article 43, paragraph (3)", the phrase "the provisions of Article 43" is deemed to be replaced with "the provisions of Article 9 of the Supplementary Provisions and Article 9-2, paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisions, which is followed pursuant to Article 19, paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the National Pension Act, etc. (Act No. 95 of 1994)", and the phrase "that Article" is deemed to be replaced with "those provisions"; and in Article 44-2, paragraph (1) 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 86, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 2013 Amendment Act, the phrase "the amount prescribed in Article 43, paragraph (1)" is deemed to be replaced with "the amount prescribed in Article 9-2, paragraph (2), item (ii) of the Supplementary Provisions", the phrase "the amount provided for in that paragraph, from" is deemed to be replaced with "the amount provided for in that item (hereinafter in this Article referred to as the "amount of the remuneration-based portion") from", the phrase "Article 132, paragraph (2)" is deemed to be replaced with "Article 82, paragraph (1) or Article 83-2, paragraph (1) 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"), Article 132, paragraph (2) prior to the amendment by Article 3 of the 1985 Amendment Act, which remains in force pursuant to the provisions of Article 83, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 1985 Amendment Act, Article 132, paragraph (2) prior to the amendment by Article 4 of the Act Partially Amending the National Pension Act, etc. (Act No. 18 of 2000; hereinafter referred to as the "2000 Amendment Act"), which remains in force pursuant to the provisions of Article 9, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 2000 Amendment Act, or Article 82, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 1985 Amendment Act prior to the amendment by Article 13 of the 2000 Amendment Act, Article 23, paragraph (1) or Article 24, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 2000 Amendment Act, or Article 132, paragraph (2) 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), which remains in force pursuant to the provisions of Article 5, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of that Act", the phrase "the amount provided for in Article 43, paragraph (1)" is deemed to be replaced with "the amount of the remuneration-based portion", and the phrase "the amount provided for in that paragraph)" is deemed to be replaced with "the amount of the remuneration-based portion)".

④In the case where a beneficiary of an employees' old-age pension under Article 8 of the Supplementary Provisions of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act (limited to one the amount of which is calculated pursuant to the provisions of Article 43, paragraph (1) of that Act and Article 9 of the Supplementary Provisions of that Act) who is a man or woman (limited to a person who is a category II EPI insured or has a category II EPI insured period, a person who is a category III EPI insured or has a category III EPI insured period, or a person who is a category IV EPI insured or has a category IV EPI insured period) and is a person set forth in the upper column of the table in paragraph (1) (excluding a person prescribed in Article 20-2, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions or in Article 33, paragraph (1) or Article 57, paragraph (1) or (2) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 2012 Pension Unification Act) reaches the age set forth in the lower column of that table, the amount of the employees' old-age pension is to be calculated following the example of the provisions of Article 9-2, paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisions of that Act, and the amount of pension is revised from the month following the month in which the beneficiary reached that age. In this case, the provisions of the second sentence of paragraph (2) apply mutatis mutandis.

⑤The provisions of Article 44 of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act and of Article 44-2 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 86, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 2013 Amendment Act, apply mutatis mutandis where the provisions of the preceding paragraph are applied to an employees' old-age pension under Article 8 of the Supplementary Provisions of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act. In this case, in Article 44, paragraph (1) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act, the phrase "at the time that the beneficiary acquired the right to receive benefits (or" is deemed to be replaced with "at the time that the beneficiary reached the age set forth in the lower column of the table in Article 19, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the National Pension Act, etc. (Act No. 95 of 1994) (or", the phrase "at the time that the beneficiary acquired the right to receive those benefits" is deemed to be replaced with "at the time that the beneficiary reached that age", the phrase "Article 43, paragraph (2) or (3)" is deemed to be replaced with "Article 43, paragraph (3)", the phrase "the provisions of Article 43" is deemed to be replaced with "the provisions of Article 9 of the Supplementary Provisions and Article 9-2, paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisions, which is followed pursuant to Article 19, paragraph (4) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the National Pension Act, etc. (Act No. 95 of 1994)", the phrase "that Article" is deemed to be replaced with "those provisions", and the phrase "is calculated by adding an additional amount of pension to the amount provided for in that Article" is deemed to be replaced with "is calculated by adding an additional amount of pension to the amount provided for in those provisions, and the amount of pension is revised from the month following the month in which the beneficiary reached that age or from the month in which the insured period came to be 240 months or more pursuant to the provisions of Article 43, paragraph (3)"; in Article 44, paragraph (3) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act, the phrase "at the time the beneficiary acquired the right to receive benefits" is deemed to be replaced with "at the time the beneficiary reached the age set forth in the lower column of the table in Article 19, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the National Pension Act, etc."; and in Article 44-2, paragraph (1) 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 86, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 2013 Amendment Act, the phrase "the amount prescribed in Article 43, paragraph (1)" is deemed to be replaced with "the amount prescribed in Article 9-2, paragraph (2), item (ii) of the Supplementary Provisions", the phrase "the amount provided for in that paragraph, from" is deemed to be replaced with "the amount provided for in that item (hereinafter in this Article referred to as the "amount of the remuneration-based portion") from", the phrase "Article 132, paragraph (2)" is deemed to be replaced with "Article 82, paragraph (1) or Article 83-2, paragraph (1) 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"), Article 132, paragraph (2) prior to the amendment by Article 3 of the 1985 Amendment Act, which remains in force pursuant to the provisions of Article 83, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 1985 Amendment Act, Article 132, paragraph (2) prior to the amendment by Article 4 of the Act Partially Amending the National Pension Act, etc. (Act No. 18 of 2000; hereinafter referred to as the "2000 Amendment Act"), which remains in force pursuant to the provisions of Article 9, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 2000 Amendment Act, or Article 82, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 1985 Amendment Act prior to the amendment by Article 13 of the 2000 Amendment Act, Article 23, paragraph (1) or Article 24, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 2000 Amendment Act, or Article 132, paragraph (2) 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), which remains in force pursuant to the provisions of Article 5, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of that Act", the phrase "the amount provided for in Article 43, paragraph (1)" is deemed to be replaced with "the amount of the remuneration-based portion", and the phrase "the amount provided for in that paragraph)" is deemed to be replaced with "the amount of the remuneration-based portion)".

⑥In the case where the amount of the employees' old-age pension of the beneficiary prescribed in paragraph (4) has been revised, in the month in which the beneficiary reached the age set forth in the lower column of the table in paragraph (1), pursuant to the provisions of Article 9-3, paragraphs (3) and (4) or Article 9-4, paragraphs (4) and (5) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act, the provisions of the preceding two paragraphs do not apply.

⑦On or after the month following the month in which the beneficiary prescribed in paragraph (4) reached the age set forth in the lower column of the table in paragraph (1), the amount of the employees' old-age pension is not revised under the provisions of Article 9-2, paragraphs (1) through (3), Article 9-3, paragraphs (3) and (4) and Article 9-4, paragraphs (4) and (5) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act.

⑧In the case where a beneficiary of an employees' old-age pension under Article 8 of the Supplementary Provisions of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act (limited to one the amount of which is calculated pursuant to the provisions of Article 9-2, paragraphs (1) through (3) of the Supplementary Provisions of that Act) who is a man or woman (limited to a person who is a category II EPI insured or has a category II EPI insured period, a person who is a category III EPI insured or has a category III EPI insured period, or a person who is a category IV EPI insured or has a category IV EPI insured period) and is a person set forth in the upper column of the table in paragraph (1) (excluding a person prescribed in Article 20-2, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions or in Article 33, paragraph (1) or Article 57, paragraph (1) or (2) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 2012 Pension Unification Act) no longer falls under the category of having a disability prescribed in Article 9-2, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of that Act on or after the month in which the beneficiary reached the age set forth in the lower column of that table, the provisions of paragraph (4) of that Article do not apply.

②In the case prescribed in the preceding paragraph, the amount of that employees' old-age pension is calculated following the example of the provisions of Article 9-2, paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act.

③The provisions of Article 44 of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act and of Article 44-2 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 86, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 2013 Amendment Act, apply mutatis mutandis where the provisions of the preceding paragraph are applied to an employees' old-age pension under Article 8 of the Supplementary Provisions of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act. In this case, in Article 44, paragraph (1) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act, the phrase "Article 43, paragraph (2) or (3)" is deemed to be replaced with "Article 43, paragraph (3)", the phrase "the provisions of Article 43" is deemed to be replaced with "the provisions of Article 9 of the Supplementary Provisions and Article 9-2, paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisions, which is followed pursuant to Article 20, paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the National Pension Act, etc. (Act No. 95 of 1994)", and the phrase "that Article" is deemed to be replaced with "those provisions"; and in Article 44-2, paragraph (1) 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 86, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 2013 Amendment Act, the phrase "the amount prescribed in Article 43, paragraph (1)" is deemed to be replaced with "the amount prescribed in Article 9-2, paragraph (2), item (ii) of the Supplementary Provisions", the phrase "the amount provided for in that paragraph, from" is deemed to be replaced with "the amount provided for in that item (hereinafter in this Article referred to as the "amount of the remuneration-based portion") from", the phrase "Article 132, paragraph (2)" is deemed to be replaced with "Article 82, paragraph (1) or Article 83-2, paragraph (1) 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"), Article 132, paragraph (2) prior to the amendment by Article 3 of the 1985 Amendment Act, which remains in force pursuant to the provisions of Article 83, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 1985 Amendment Act, Article 132, paragraph (2) prior to the amendment by Article 4 of the Act Partially Amending the National Pension Act, etc. (Act No. 18 of 2000; hereinafter referred to as the "2000 Amendment Act"), which remains in force pursuant to the provisions of Article 9, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 2000 Amendment Act, or Article 82, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 1985 Amendment Act prior to the amendment by Article 13 of the 2000 Amendment Act, Article 23, paragraph (1) or Article 24, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 2000 Amendment Act, or Article 132, paragraph (2) 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), which remains in force pursuant to the provisions of Article 5, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of that Act", the phrase "the amount provided for in Article 43, paragraph (1)" is deemed to be replaced with "the amount of the remuneration-based portion", and the phrase "the amount provided for in that paragraph)" is deemed to be replaced with "the amount of the remuneration-based portion)".

④When a beneficiary of an employees' old-age pension under Article 8 of the Supplementary Provisions of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act (limited to one the amount of which is calculated pursuant to the provisions of Article 43, paragraph (1) of that Act and Article 9 of the Supplementary Provisions of that Act) who is a woman (limited to a person who is a category I EPI insured or has a category I EPI insured period) and is a person set forth in the upper column of the table in paragraph (1) (excluding a person prescribed in paragraph (1) of the following Article) reaches the age set forth in the lower column of that table, the amount of the employees' old-age pension is to be calculated following the example of the provisions of Article 9-2, paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisions of that Act, and the amount of pension is revised from the month following the month in which the beneficiary reached that age.

⑤The provisions of Article 44 of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act and of Article 44-2 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 86, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 2013 Amendment Act, apply mutatis mutandis where the provisions of the preceding paragraph are applied to an employees' old-age pension under Article 8 of the Supplementary Provisions of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act. In this case, in Article 44, paragraph (1) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act, the phrase "at the time that the beneficiary acquired the right to receive benefits (or" is deemed to be replaced with "at the time that the beneficiary reached the age set forth in the lower column of the table in Article 20, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the National Pension Act, etc. (Act No. 95 of 1994) (or", the phrase "at the time that the beneficiary acquired the right to receive those benefits" is deemed to be replaced with "at the time that the beneficiary reached that age", the phrase "Article 43, paragraph (2) or (3)" is deemed to be replaced with "Article 43, paragraph (3)", the phrase "the provisions of Article 43" is deemed to be replaced with "the provisions of Article 9 of the Supplementary Provisions and Article 9-2, paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisions, which is followed pursuant to Article 20, paragraph (4) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the National Pension Act, etc. (Act No. 95 of 1994)", the phrase "that Article" is deemed to be replaced with "those provisions", and the phrase "is calculated by adding an additional amount of pension to the amount provided for in that Article" is deemed to be replaced with "is calculated by adding an additional amount of pension to the amount provided for in those provisions, and the amount of pension is revised from the month following the month in which the beneficiary reached that age or from the month in which the insured period came to be 240 months or more pursuant to the provisions of Article 43, paragraph (3)"; in Article 44, paragraph (3) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act, the phrase "at the time the beneficiary acquired the right to receive benefits" is deemed to be replaced with "at the time the beneficiary reached the age set forth in the lower column of the table in Article 20, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the National Pension Act, etc."; and in Article 44-2, paragraph (1) 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 86, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 2013 Amendment Act, the phrase "the amount prescribed in Article 43, paragraph (1)" is deemed to be replaced with "the amount prescribed in Article 9-2, paragraph (2), item (ii) of the Supplementary Provisions", the phrase "the amount provided for in that paragraph, from" is deemed to be replaced with "the amount provided for in that item (hereinafter in this Article referred to as the "amount of the remuneration-based portion") from", the phrase "Article 132, paragraph (2)" is deemed to be replaced with "Article 82, paragraph (1) or Article 83-2, paragraph (1) 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"), Article 132, paragraph (2) prior to the amendment by Article 3 of the 1985 Amendment Act, which remains in force pursuant to the provisions of Article 83, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 1985 Amendment Act, Article 132, paragraph (2) prior to the amendment by Article 4 of the Act Partially Amending the National Pension Act, etc. (Act No. 18 of 2000; hereinafter referred to as the "2000 Amendment Act"), which remains in force pursuant to the provisions of Article 9, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 2000 Amendment Act, or Article 82, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 1985 Amendment Act prior to the amendment by Article 13 of the 2000 Amendment Act, Article 23, paragraph (1) or Article 24, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 2000 Amendment Act, or Article 132, paragraph (2) 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), which remains in force pursuant to the provisions of Article 5, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of that Act", the phrase "the amount provided for in Article 43, paragraph (1)" is deemed to be replaced with "the amount of the remuneration-based portion", and the phrase "the amount provided for in that paragraph)" is deemed to be replaced with "the amount of the remuneration-based portion)".

⑥In the case where the amount of the employees' old-age pension of the beneficiary prescribed in paragraph (4) has been revised, in the month in which the beneficiary reached the age set forth in the lower column of the table in paragraph (1), pursuant to the provisions of Article 9-3, paragraphs (3) and (4) or Article 9-4, paragraphs (4) and (5) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act, the provisions of the preceding two paragraphs do not apply.

⑦On or after the month following the month in which the beneficiary prescribed in paragraph (4) reached the age set forth in the lower column of the table in paragraph (1), the amount of the employees' old-age pension is not revised under the provisions of Article 9-2, paragraphs (1) through (3), Article 9-3, paragraphs (3) and (4) and Article 9-4, paragraphs (4) and (5) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act.

⑧In the case where a beneficiary of an employees' old-age pension under Article 8 of the Supplementary Provisions of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act (limited to one the amount of which is calculated pursuant to the provisions of Article 9-2, paragraphs (1) through (3) of the Supplementary Provisions of that Act) who is a woman (limited to a person who is a category I EPI insured or has a category I EPI insured period) and is a person set forth in the upper column of the table in paragraph (1) (excluding a person prescribed in paragraph (1) of the following Article) no longer falls under the category of having a disability prescribed in Article 9-2, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of that Act on or after the month in which the beneficiary reached the age set forth in the lower column of that table, the provisions of paragraph (4) of that Article do not apply.

②In the case prescribed in the preceding paragraph, the amount of that employees' old-age pension is calculated following the example of the provisions of Article 9-2, paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act.

③The provisions of Article 44 of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act and of Article 44-2 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 86, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 2013 Amendment Act, apply mutatis mutandis where the provisions of the preceding paragraph are applied to an employees' old-age pension under Article 8 of the Supplementary Provisions of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act. In this case, in Article 44, paragraph (1) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act, the phrase "Article 43, paragraph (2) or (3)" is deemed to be replaced with "Article 43, paragraph (3)", the phrase "the provisions of Article 43" is deemed to be replaced with "the provisions of Article 9 of the Supplementary Provisions and Article 9-2, paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisions, which is followed pursuant to Article 20-2, paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the National Pension Act, etc. (Act No. 95 of 1994)", and the phrase "that Article" is deemed to be replaced with "those provisions"; and in Article 44-2, paragraph (1) 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 86, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 2013 Amendment Act, the phrase "the amount prescribed in Article 43, paragraph (1)" is deemed to be replaced with "the amount prescribed in Article 9-2, paragraph (2), item (ii) of the Supplementary Provisions", the phrase "the amount provided for in that paragraph, from" is deemed to be replaced with "the amount provided for in that item (hereinafter in this Article referred to as the "amount of the remuneration-based portion") from", the phrase "Article 132, paragraph (2)" is deemed to be replaced with "Article 82, paragraph (1) or Article 83-2, paragraph (1) 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"), Article 132, paragraph (2) prior to the amendment by Article 3 of the 1985 Amendment Act, which remains in force pursuant to the provisions of Article 83, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 1985 Amendment Act, Article 132, paragraph (2) prior to the amendment by Article 4 of the Act Partially Amending the National Pension Act, etc. (Act No. 18 of 2000; hereinafter referred to as the "2000 Amendment Act"), which remains in force pursuant to the provisions of Article 9, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 2000 Amendment Act, or Article 82, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 1985 Amendment Act prior to the amendment by Article 13 of the 2000 Amendment Act, Article 23, paragraph (1) or Article 24, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 2000 Amendment Act, or Article 132, paragraph (2) 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), which remains in force pursuant to the provisions of Article 5, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of that Act", the phrase "the amount provided for in Article 43, paragraph (1)" is deemed to be replaced with "the amount of the remuneration-based portion", and the phrase "the amount provided for in that paragraph)" is deemed to be replaced with "the amount of the remuneration-based portion)".

④When a beneficiary of an employees' old-age pension under Article 8 of the Supplementary Provisions of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act (limited to one the amount of which is calculated pursuant to the provisions of Article 43, paragraph (1) of that Act and Article 9 of the Supplementary Provisions of that Act) who is a specified police officer, etc. and is a person set forth in the upper column of the table in paragraph (1) (excluding a person prescribed in Article 33, paragraph (1) or Article 57, paragraph (1) or (2) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 2012 Pension Unification Act) reaches the age set forth in the lower column of that table, the amount of the employees' old-age pension is to be calculated following the example of the provisions of Article 9-2, paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act, and the amount of pension is revised from the month following the month in which the beneficiary reached that age.

⑤The provisions of Article 44 of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act and of Article 44-2 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 86, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 2013 Amendment Act, apply mutatis mutandis where the provisions of the preceding paragraph are applied to an employees' old-age pension under Article 8 of the Supplementary Provisions of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act. In this case, in Article 44, paragraph (1) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act, the phrase "at the time that the beneficiary acquired the right to receive benefits (or" is deemed to be replaced with "at the time that the beneficiary reached the age set forth in the lower column of the table in Article 20-2, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the National Pension Act, etc. (Act No. 95 of 1994) (or", the phrase "at the time that the beneficiary acquired the right to receive those benefits" is deemed to be replaced with "at the time that the beneficiary reached that age", the phrase "Article 43, paragraph (2) or (3)" is deemed to be replaced with "Article 43, paragraph (3)", the phrase "the provisions of Article 43" is deemed to be replaced with "the provisions of Article 9 of the Supplementary Provisions and Article 9-2, paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisions, which is followed pursuant to Article 20-2, paragraph (4) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the National Pension Act, etc. (Act No. 95 of 1994)", the phrase "that Article" is deemed to be replaced with "those provisions", and the phrase "is calculated by adding an additional amount of pension to the amount provided for in that Article" is deemed to be replaced with "is calculated by adding an additional amount of pension to the amount provided for in those provisions, and the amount of pension is revised from the month following the month in which the beneficiary reached that age or from the month in which the insured period came to be 240 months or more pursuant to the provisions of Article 43, paragraph (3)"; in Article 44, paragraph (3) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act, the phrase "at the time the beneficiary acquired the right to receive benefits" is deemed to be replaced with "at the time the beneficiary reached the age set forth in the lower column of the table in Article 20-2, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the National Pension Act, etc."; and in Article 44-2, paragraph (1) 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 86, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 2013 Amendment Act, the phrase "the amount prescribed in Article 43, paragraph (1)" is deemed to be replaced with "the amount prescribed in Article 9-2, paragraph (2), item (ii) of the Supplementary Provisions", the phrase "the amount provided for in that paragraph, from" is deemed to be replaced with "the amount provided for in that item (hereinafter in this Article referred to as the "amount of the remuneration-based portion") from", the phrase "Article 132, paragraph (2)" is deemed to be replaced with "Article 82, paragraph (1) or Article 83-2, paragraph (1) 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"), Article 132, paragraph (2) prior to the amendment by Article 3 of the 1985 Amendment Act, which remains in force pursuant to the provisions of Article 83, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 1985 Amendment Act, Article 132, paragraph (2) prior to the amendment by Article 4 of the Act Partially Amending the National Pension Act, etc. (Act No. 18 of 2000; hereinafter referred to as the "2000 Amendment Act"), which remains in force pursuant to the provisions of Article 9, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 2000 Amendment Act, or Article 82, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 1985 Amendment Act prior to the amendment by Article 13 of the 2000 Amendment Act, Article 23, paragraph (1) or Article 24, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 2000 Amendment Act, or Article 132, paragraph (2) 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), which remains in force pursuant to the provisions of Article 5, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of that Act", the phrase "the amount provided for in Article 43, paragraph (1)" is deemed to be replaced with "the amount of the remuneration-based portion", and the phrase "the amount provided for in that paragraph)" is deemed to be replaced with "the amount of the remuneration-based portion)".

⑥In the case where the amount of the employees' old-age pension of the beneficiary prescribed in paragraph (4) has been revised, in the month in which the beneficiary reached the age set forth in the lower column of the table in paragraph (1), pursuant to the provisions of Article 9-3, paragraphs (3) and (4) or Article 9-4, paragraphs (4) and (5) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act, the provisions of the preceding two paragraphs do not apply.

⑦On or after the month following the month in which the beneficiary prescribed in paragraph (4) reaches the age set forth in the lower column of the table in paragraph (1), the amount of the employees' old-age pension is not revised under the provisions of Article 9-2, paragraphs (1) through (3), Article 9-3, paragraphs (3) and (4) and Article 9-4, paragraphs (4) and (5) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act.

⑧If a beneficiary of an employees' old-age pension under the provisions of Article 8 of the Supplementary Provisions of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act who is a specified police officer, etc. (limited to one whose amount is calculated pursuant to the provisions of Article 9-2, paragraphs (1) through (3) of the Supplementary Provisions of that Act) (limited to a person listed in the upper column of the table in paragraph (1) (excluding a person prescribed in Article 33, paragraph (1) or Article 57, paragraph (1) or (2) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 2012 Pension Unification Act)) ceases, on or after the month in which the person reaches the age set forth in the lower column of that table, to be in a state of having a disability prescribed in Article 9-2, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of that Act, the provisions of paragraph (4) of that Article do not apply.

①If, in the month that includes the day on which a beneficiary of an employees' old-age pension under the provisions of Article 8 of the Supplementary Provisions of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act (limited to one whose amount is calculated pursuant to the provisions of Article 18, Article 19, paragraphs (1) through (5), Article 20, paragraphs (1) through (5) or paragraphs (1) through (5) of the preceding Article of the Supplementary Provisions and Article 9 of the Supplementary Provisions of that Act) is an insured under employees' pension insurance (limited to a person who has continuously held the status of that insured from a day in a month on or before the previous month; excluding the day specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare prescribed in Article 46, paragraph (1) of that Act; referred to as the "day on which the person is an insured" in Article 23, paragraph (1) and Article 26, paragraphs (1), (3), (8), (11) and (13) of the Supplementary Provisions) or is a member of the National Diet or a member of the assembly of a local government (limited to a person who has continuously been a member of the National Diet or a member of the assembly of a local government from a day in a month on or before the previous month; referred to as the "day on which the person is an insured, etc." in Article 24, paragraphs (3) and (4) of the Supplementary Provisions), the total of the person's amount equivalent to total monthly remuneration (meaning the amount equivalent to total monthly remuneration prescribed in Article 46, paragraph (1) of that Act; the same applies hereinafter) and the amount obtained by dividing the amount of the employees' old-age pension (excluding the additional amount of pension prescribed in Article 44, paragraph (1) of that Act as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 18, paragraph (3), Article 19, paragraph (3) or (5), Article 20, paragraph (3) or (5) or paragraph (3) or (5) of the preceding Article of the Supplementary Provisions; the same applies hereinafter in this paragraph) by twelve (hereinafter referred to as the "base monthly amount" in this paragraph) exceeds the amount of the adjustment for the suspension of payment prescribed in Article 46, paragraph (3) of that Act (hereinafter referred to as the "amount of the adjustment for the suspension of payment" in this paragraph), payment of that employees' old-age pension for that month is suspended for the portion equivalent to the amount obtained by multiplying by twelve the amount equivalent to one-half of the amount obtained by deducting the amount of the adjustment for the suspension of payment from the total of the amount equivalent to total monthly remuneration and the base monthly amount (hereinafter referred to as the "standard amount for a payment suspension" in this paragraph); provided, however, that if the standard amount for a payment suspension is equal to or greater than the amount of the employees' old-age pension, payment of the whole of the employees' old-age pension is to be suspended.

②With regard to the employees' old-age pension under the provisions of Article 8 of the Supplementary Provisions of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act prescribed in the preceding paragraph (limited to one that is paid to a person for whom all or part of the period of being an insured under employees' pension insurance is a period of being a member of an employees' pension Fund prescribed in Article 3, item (xii) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 2013 Amendment Act (hereinafter referred to as an "employees' pension Fund"), and that is based on a category I EPI insured period or category IV EPI insured period), in that paragraph, the phrase "and the amount obtained by dividing the amount of the employees' old-age pension" is deemed to be replaced with "and the amount obtained by dividing the amount of the employees' old-age pension calculated as if the provisions of Article 44-2, paragraph (1) 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 86, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 2013 Amendment Act, as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 18, paragraph (3), Article 19, paragraph (3) or (5), Article 20, paragraph (3) or (5) or paragraph (3) or (5) of the preceding Article of the Supplementary Provisions, did not apply", the phrase "excluding the additional amount of pension prescribed in Article 44, paragraph (1) of that Act as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 18, paragraph (3), Article 19, paragraph (3) or (5), Article 20, paragraph (3) or (5) or paragraph (3) or (5) of the preceding Article of the Supplementary Provisions; the same applies hereinafter in this paragraph" with "excluding the additional amount of pension prescribed in Article 44, paragraph (1) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 18, paragraph (3), Article 19, paragraph (3) or (5), Article 20, paragraph (3) or (5) or paragraph (3) or (5) of the preceding Article of the Supplementary Provisions (hereinafter simply referred to as the 'additional amount of pension' in this paragraph); hereinafter referred to as the 'amount of the employees' old-age pension had the person not joined a Fund' in this paragraph", the phrase "equal to or greater than the amount of the employees' old-age pension" with "equal to or greater than the amount of the employees' old-age pension (excluding the additional amount of pension)", and the phrase "the whole" with "the whole (excluding the additional amount of pension, if the standard amount for a payment suspension is less than the amount of the employees' old-age pension had the person not joined a Fund)".

③When payment of all or part of the employees' old-age pension under the provisions of Article 8 of the Supplementary Provisions of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act is suspended pursuant to the provisions of the preceding two paragraphs, the provisions of Article 36, paragraph (2) of that Act do not apply.

When a beneficiary of an employees' old-age pension for persons with disabilities or long-term insureds prescribed in Article 11-2, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act (excluding those specified by Cabinet Order; the same applies hereinafter) is a person prescribed in Article 19, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions (limited to a person who reached the age set forth in the lower column of the table in that paragraph on a day in a month on or before the previous month), a person prescribed in Article 20, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions (limited to a person who reached the age set forth in the lower column of the table in that paragraph on a day in a month on or before the previous month) or a person prescribed in Article 20-2, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions (limited to a person who reached the age set forth in the lower column of the table in that paragraph on a day in a month on or before the previous month), the provisions of Article 11-2 of the Supplementary Provisions of that Act do not apply to that employees' old-age pension, and the provisions of the preceding Article apply mutatis mutandis. In this case, the phrase "Article 18, paragraph (3), Article 19, paragraph (3) or (5), Article 20, paragraph (3) or (5) or paragraph (3) or (5) of the preceding Article" in paragraphs (1) and (2) of that Article is deemed to be replaced with "Article 9-2, paragraph (3) or Article 9-3, paragraph (2) or (4) of the Supplementary Provisions of that Act (including cases where those provisions are followed pursuant to paragraph (5) of that Article)".

①With regard to an employees' old-age pension under the provisions of Article 8 of the Supplementary Provisions of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act as Amended (limited to one whose beneficiary is a person born on or before April 1, 1935) and its beneficiary, if, in the month that includes the day on which the person is an insured under employees' pension insurance, the amount set forth in item (i) exceeds the amount set forth in item (ii), the provisions of Article 13, paragraphs (3) and (4) and Article 13-2 of the Supplementary Provisions of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act as Amended by Article 8 of the Act Partially Amending the National Pension Act, etc. (Act No. 104 of 2004; hereinafter referred to as the "2004 Amendment Act" in this paragraph) and Articles 21 and 28 of the Supplementary Provisions do not apply, and the provisions of Article 11, Article 13, paragraph (3) and Article 13-2 of the Supplementary Provisions of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act prior to the amendment by Article 3 (hereinafter referred to as the "Employees' Pension Insurance Act Before the Amendment") remain in force. In this case, necessary technical replacement of terms for the application of those provisions is specified by Cabinet Order.

②Where the beneficiary of the employees' old-age pension prescribed in the preceding paragraph is a person for whom all or part of the period of being an insured under employees' pension insurance is a period of being a member of an employees' pension Fund, in item (i) of that paragraph, the phrase "the amount of the portion for which payment is to be suspended (or, if payment of the whole of that employees' old-age pension is to be suspended, the amount of that employees' old-age pension)" is deemed to be replaced with "the standard amount for a payment suspension (meaning the standard amount for a payment suspension under the provisions of Article 21, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions as read in paragraph (2) of that Article; or, if that standard amount for a payment suspension is equal to or greater than the amount obtained by adding to the amount of that employees' old-age pension (excluding the additional amount of pension prescribed in Article 44, paragraph (1) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act as Amended as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 18, paragraph (3) of the Supplementary Provisions (hereinafter simply referred to as the 'additional amount of pension')) the amount obtained by deducting the amount of the employees' old-age pension from the amount of the employees' old-age pension calculated as if the provisions of Article 44-2, paragraph (1) 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 86, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 2013 Amendment Act, as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 18, paragraph (3) of the Supplementary Provisions, did not apply (hereinafter referred to as the 'total amount of the substituted portion' in this item and the following item), the amount obtained by adding the total amount of the substituted portion to the amount of that employees' old-age pension (including the additional amount of pension))", and in item (ii) of that paragraph, the phrase "(excluding the additional amount of pension prescribed in Article 44, paragraph (1) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act as Amended as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 18, paragraph (3) of the Supplementary Provisions (hereinafter simply referred to as the 'additional amount of pension' in this item))" is deemed to be replaced with "(excluding the additional amount of pension)", and the phrase "the amount of the portion for which payment is to be suspended (or, if payment of the whole of that employees' old-age pension is to be suspended, the amount of that employees' old-age pension (including the additional amount of pension))" with "the amount obtained by adding to the amount of the portion for which payment is to be suspended the amount of the portion for which payment is to be suspended in the case where that Article is applied to the total amount of the substituted portion for calculation (or, if payment of the whole of that employees' old-age pension is to be suspended, the amount obtained by adding the total amount of the substituted portion to the amount of that employees' old-age pension (including the additional amount of pension)))".

③When payment of part of the employees' old-age pension under the provisions of Article 8 of the Supplementary Provisions of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act as Amended is suspended pursuant to the provisions of the preceding two paragraphs, the provisions of Article 36, paragraph (2) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act do not apply.

①The provisions of Article 11-4 of the Supplementary Provisions of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act do not apply to employees' old-age pensions under the provisions of Article 8 of the Supplementary Provisions of that Act (limited to those whose beneficiary is a person born on or before April 1, 1941).

②Payment of an employees' old-age pension under the provisions of Article 8 of the Supplementary Provisions of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act (limited to one whose beneficiary is a person born on or before April 1, 1941) is suspended during the time when the beneficiary is able to receive an old-age basic pension under the National Pension Act (excluding one for which payment is suspended pursuant to the provisions of Article 7, paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisions).

③In the month in which the beneficiary of an employees' old-age pension under the provisions of Article 8 of the Supplementary Provisions of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act (limited to one falling under any of the following items) (excluding a person prescribed in Article 33, paragraph (1) or Article 57, paragraph (1) or (2) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 2012 Pension Unification Act) is able to receive an old-age basic pension under the National Pension Act (excluding the month in which the person acquired the right to receive benefits from that old-age basic pension and the month that includes the day on which the person is an insured, etc. under employees' pension insurance), payment of that employees' old-age pension is suspended, limited to the portion equivalent to the amount prescribed in Article 9-2, paragraph (2), item (i) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act relating to that employees' old-age pension.

④In the case of a beneficiary of an employees' old-age pension under the provisions of Article 8 of the Supplementary Provisions of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act (limited to one falling under any of the items of the preceding paragraph and an employees' old-age pension for persons with disabilities or long-term insureds prescribed in Article 11-2, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of that Act (limited to one whose beneficiary is a person who falls under Article 22 of the Supplementary Provisions)) who is able to receive an old-age basic pension under the National Pension Act, in the month that includes the day on which the person is an insured, etc. under employees' pension insurance (excluding the month in which the person acquired the right to receive benefits from that old-age basic pension), notwithstanding the provisions of Articles 21 and 22 of the Supplementary Provisions, payment of that employees' old-age pension for that month is to be suspended for the portion equivalent to the total of the amount of the portion for which payment is suspended in the case where the provisions of Article 21 of the Supplementary Provisions (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 22 of the Supplementary Provisions; the same applies hereinafter in this paragraph) are applied to the amount prescribed in Article 9-2, paragraph (2), item (ii) of the Supplementary Provisions of that Act relating to that employees' old-age pension (including, if the additional amount of pension prescribed in Article 44, paragraph (1) of that Act as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 18, paragraph (3), Article 19, paragraph (3) or (5), Article 20, paragraph (3) or (5) or Article 20-2, paragraph (3) or (5) of the Supplementary Provisions or Article 9-2, paragraph (3) or Article 9-3, paragraph (2) or (4) of the Supplementary Provisions of that Act (including cases where those provisions are followed pursuant to paragraph (5) of that Article) has been added to that employees' old-age pension, that additional amount of pension; hereinafter referred to as the "amount of the remuneration-based portion, etc." in this paragraph) for calculation, and the amount prescribed in Article 9-2, paragraph (2), item (i) of the Supplementary Provisions of that Act relating to that employees' old-age pension (or, if, in the case where the provisions of Article 21 of the Supplementary Provisions are applied to the amount of the remuneration-based portion, etc. for calculation, payment of the entire amount of the remuneration-based portion, etc. is to be suspended, the whole of that employees' old-age pension).

⑤The provisions of Article 11-4, paragraph (3) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act apply mutatis mutandis where the amount prescribed in Article 9-2, paragraph (2), item (i) of the Supplementary Provisions of that Act prescribed in paragraph (3), and the amount prescribed in item (ii) of paragraph (2) of that Article and the amount prescribed in item (i) of that paragraph prescribed in the preceding paragraph, are calculated.

⑥When payment of all or part of the employees' old-age pension under the provisions of Article 8 of the Supplementary Provisions of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act is suspended pursuant to the provisions of the preceding three paragraphs, the provisions of Article 36, paragraph (2) of that Act do not apply.

①The provisions of Article 11-5 of the Supplementary Provisions of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act do not apply to employees' old-age pensions under the provisions of Article 8 of the Supplementary Provisions of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act as Amended (limited to those whose beneficiary acquired the right before April 1, 1998).

②When the provisions of Article 7-4 of the Supplementary Provisions of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act as applied mutatis mutandis with replacement of terms in Article 11-5 of the Supplementary Provisions of that Act are applied to an employees' old-age pension under the provisions of Article 8 of the Supplementary Provisions of that Act (limited to one whose amount is calculated pursuant to the provisions of Article 18, Article 19, paragraphs (1) through (5), Article 20, paragraphs (1) through (5) or Article 20-2, paragraphs (1) through (5) of the Supplementary Provisions and Article 9 of the Supplementary Provisions of that Act, one to which the early payment adjustment amount prescribed in Article 27, paragraph (6) of the Supplementary Provisions has been added, and an employees' old-age pension for persons with disabilities or long-term insureds prescribed in Article 11-2, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of that Act (limited to one whose beneficiary is a person who falls under Article 22 of the Supplementary Provisions)), a month for which all or part of the payment of that employees' old-age pension is suspended pursuant to the provisions of Article 21 of the Supplementary Provisions (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 22 or Article 27, paragraph (18) of the Supplementary Provisions), Article 23 of the Supplementary Provisions or paragraphs (4) and (5) of the preceding Article is deemed to fall under Article 7-4, paragraph (2), item (ii) of the Supplementary Provisions of that Act (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to paragraph (5) of that Article) as applied mutatis mutandis with replacement of terms in Article 11-5 of the Supplementary Provisions of that Act.

①In the case of a beneficiary of an employees' old-age pension under the provisions of Article 8 of the Supplementary Provisions of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act (limited to one whose amount is calculated pursuant to the provisions of Article 18, Article 19, paragraphs (1) through (5), Article 20, paragraphs (1) through (5) or Article 20-2, paragraphs (1) through (5) of the Supplementary Provisions and Article 9 of the Supplementary Provisions of that Act), if, with regard to the month that includes the day on which the person is an insured under employees' pension insurance, the beneficiary is able to receive basic continuous employment benefits for the elderly under the provisions of the Employment Insurance Act (Act No. 116 of 1974) (hereinafter simply referred to as "basic continuous employment benefits for the elderly" in this Article), then, notwithstanding the provisions of Article 21 of the Supplementary Provisions, payment of that employees' old-age pension for that month is suspended for the portion equivalent to the total of the standard amount for a payment suspension under the provisions of paragraph (1) of that Article in the case where the provisions of that Article are applied to that employees' old-age pension, and the amount obtained by multiplying by twelve the amount specified in each of the following items in accordance with the classification of cases set forth in the relevant item (or, if the amount obtained by multiplying that amount by 15/6 and adding the standardized monthly amount of remuneration of the beneficiary exceeds the payment amount limit prescribed in Article 61, paragraph (1), item (ii) of that Act (hereinafter simply referred to as the "payment amount limit" in this Article), the amount obtained by multiplying by 6/15 the amount obtained by subtracting that standardized monthly amount of remuneration from the payment amount limit) (referred to as the "adjustment amount" in paragraph (6)) (that total being hereinafter referred to as the "adjusted standard amount for a payment suspension" in this paragraph); provided, however, that if the adjusted standard amount for a payment suspension is equal to or greater than the amount of the employees' old-age pension (excluding the additional amount of pension prescribed in Article 44, paragraph (1) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 18, paragraph (3), Article 19, paragraph (3) or (5), Article 20, paragraph (3) or (5) or Article 20-2, paragraph (3) or (5) of the Supplementary Provisions (hereinafter simply referred to as the "additional amount of pension" in this Article)), payment of the whole of the employees' old-age pension is to be suspended.

②With regard to the employees' old-age pension prescribed in the preceding paragraph that is paid to a person for whom all or part of the period of being an insured under employees' pension insurance is a period of being a member of an employees' pension Fund, in the preceding paragraph, the phrase "paragraph (1) of that Article" is deemed to be replaced with "paragraph (1) of that Article as read in paragraph (2) of that Article", and the phrase "the whole" with "the whole (excluding the additional amount of pension, if the adjusted standard amount for a payment suspension is less than the amount obtained by adding to the amount of the employees' old-age pension (excluding the additional amount of pension) the amount obtained by deducting the amount of the employees' old-age pension from the amount of the employees' old-age pension calculated as if the provisions of Article 44-2, paragraph (1) 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 86, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 2013 Amendment Act, as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 18, paragraph (3), Article 19, paragraph (3) or (5) or Article 20, paragraph (3) or (5) of the Supplementary Provisions, did not apply)".

③In the case of a beneficiary of the employees' old-age pension prescribed in paragraph (1) (limited to a person born on or after April 2, 1941 who is able to receive an old-age basic pension under the National Pension Act), in the month that includes the day on which the person is an insured under employees' pension insurance (excluding the month in which the person acquired the right to receive benefits from that old-age basic pension), if the person is able to receive basic continuous employment benefits for the elderly, then, notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding two paragraphs, payment of that employees' old-age pension for that month is suspended for the portion equivalent to the total of the sum of the standard amount for a payment suspension in the case where the provisions of Article 24, paragraphs (4) and (5) of the Supplementary Provisions are applied to that employees' old-age pension (meaning the standard amount for a payment suspension under the provisions of Article 21, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions in the case where it is applied, pursuant to the provisions of Article 24, paragraph (4) of the Supplementary Provisions, to the amount of the remuneration-based portion, etc. prescribed in that paragraph) and the amount prescribed in Article 9-2, paragraph (2), item (i) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act prescribed in Article 24, paragraph (4) of the Supplementary Provisions, and the amount obtained by multiplying by twelve the amount specified in each item of paragraph (1) (or, if the amount obtained by multiplying that amount by 15/6 and adding the standardized monthly amount of remuneration of the beneficiary exceeds the payment amount limit, the amount obtained by multiplying by 6/15 the amount obtained by subtracting that standardized monthly amount of remuneration from the payment amount limit), in accordance with the classification of cases set forth in the items of paragraph (1), respectively (referred to as the "adjustment amount for persons receiving the basic pension" in paragraph (6)) (that total being hereinafter referred to as the "adjusted standard amount for a payment suspension" in this paragraph); provided, however, that if the adjusted standard amount for a payment suspension is equal to or greater than the amount of the employees' old-age pension (excluding the additional amount of pension), payment of the whole of the employees' old-age pension is to be suspended.

④With regard to the employees' old-age pension prescribed in paragraph (1) that is paid to a person for whom all or part of the period of being an insured under employees' pension insurance is a period of being a member of an employees' pension Fund, in the preceding paragraph, the phrase "Article 21, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions" is deemed to be replaced with "Article 21, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions as read in paragraph (2) of that Article", and the phrase "the whole" with "the whole (excluding the additional amount of pension, if the adjusted standard amount for a payment suspension is less than the amount obtained by adding to the amount of the employees' old-age pension (excluding the additional amount of pension) the amount obtained by deducting the amount of the employees' old-age pension from the amount of the employees' old-age pension calculated as if the provisions of Article 44-2, paragraph (1) 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 86, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 2013 Amendment Act, as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 18, paragraph (3), Article 19, paragraph (3) or (5), Article 20, paragraph (3) or (5) or Article 20-2, paragraph (3) or (5) of the Supplementary Provisions, did not apply)".

⑤With regard to the employees' old-age pension prescribed in paragraph (1), if it falls under any of the following items, the provisions of the preceding paragraphs do not apply.

⑥The handling of fractions of less than one yen that arise in calculating the adjustment amount and the adjustment amount for persons receiving the basic pension is specified by Cabinet Order.

⑦In the case where payment of all or part of the employees' old-age pension prescribed in paragraph (1) is suspended pursuant to the provisions of paragraphs (1) through (4) and the preceding paragraph, the provisions of Article 36, paragraph (2) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act do not apply.

⑧The provisions of each of the preceding paragraphs apply mutatis mutandis to the case where a beneficiary of the employees' old-age pension prescribed in paragraph (1) is able, for the month that includes the day on which the person is an insured under employees' pension insurance, to receive re-employment benefits for the elderly under the provisions of the Employment Insurance Act (hereinafter simply referred to as "re-employment benefits for the elderly" in this Article). In this case, the phrase "the amount deemed to be the daily amount of wages under Article 61, paragraphs (1), (3) and (4) of the Employment Insurance Act (hereinafter simply referred to as the "amount deemed to be the daily amount of wages" in this Article)" in paragraph (1), item (i) is deemed to be replaced with "the daily amount of wages under Article 61-2, paragraph (1) of the Employment Insurance Act (hereinafter simply referred to as the "daily amount of wages" in this Article)", and the phrase "amount deemed to be the daily amount of wages" in item (ii) of that paragraph and paragraph (5), item (i) with "daily amount of wages".

⑨With regard to the employees' old-age pension for persons with disabilities or long-term insureds prescribed in Article 11-2, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act (limited to one whose beneficiary is a person who falls under Article 22 of the Supplementary Provisions), the provisions of Article 11-6 of the Supplementary Provisions of that Act do not apply, and the provisions of each of the preceding paragraphs apply mutatis mutandis. In this case, Cabinet Order provides for the necessary technical replacement of terms in connection with those provisions.

⑩With regard to an employees' old-age pension to which the early payment adjustment amount prescribed in paragraph (6) of the following Article has been added, the provisions of Article 11-6 of the Supplementary Provisions of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act do not apply, and the provisions of paragraphs (1), (2) and (5) through (8) apply mutatis mutandis. In this case, Cabinet Order provides for the necessary technical replacement of terms in connection with those provisions.

⑪In the case of a beneficiary of an employees' old-age pension under the provisions of Article 8 of the Supplementary Provisions of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act as Amended (limited to a person born on or before April 1, 1935), with regard to the month that includes the day on which the person is an insured under employees' pension insurance, if the person is able to receive basic continuous employment benefits for the elderly or re-employment benefits for the elderly, and that employees' old-age pension falls under Article 23, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions (including as read in paragraph (2) of that Article) (excluding the case where it falls under paragraph (5) (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to paragraph (8))), the provisions of Article 23 of the Supplementary Provisions do not apply to that employees' old-age pension for that month.

⑫With regard to the application of the provisions of paragraphs (1), (2) and (6) through (8) in the case prescribed in the preceding paragraph, the phrase "the standard amount for a payment suspension under the provisions of paragraph (1) of that Article in the case where the provisions of that Article are applied to that employees' old-age pension" in paragraph (1) is deemed to be replaced with "the amount set forth in Article 23, paragraph (1), item (ii) of the Supplementary Provisions pertaining to that employees' old-age pension"; and in paragraph (2), the phrase "in the preceding paragraph, the phrase 'paragraph (1) of that Article' is deemed to be replaced with 'paragraph (1) of that Article as read in paragraph (2) of that Article', and" is deemed to be replaced with "in the preceding paragraph", the phrase "the amount obtained by deducting the amount of the employees' old-age pension from the amount of the employees' old-age pension calculated" is deemed to be replaced with "the amount obtained by deducting, from the amount obtained by deducting the amount of the employees' old-age pension from the amount of the employees' old-age pension calculated", and the phrase "did not apply" with "did not apply (hereinafter referred to as the 'total substitute portion'), the amount of the portion for which payment is suspended in the case calculated by applying to the total substitute portion the provisions of Article 11 of the Supplementary Provisions of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act Before the Amendment".

⑬The provisions of Article 11-6, paragraphs (2), (3), (6) and (7) and Article 15-3 of the Supplementary Provisions of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act apply mutatis mutandis to the case where a beneficiary of an employees' old-age pension under the provisions of Article 8 of the Supplementary Provisions of that Act is able, for the month that includes the day on which the person is an insured under employees' pension insurance, to receive basic continuous employment benefits for the elderly or re-employment benefits for the elderly under the provisions of the Mariners Insurance Act prior to the amendment by Article 4 of the Act Partially Amending the Employment Insurance Act, etc. (Act No. 30 of 2007), in respect of which the provisions then in force continue to govern pursuant to Article 42, paragraph (4) or (5) of the Supplementary Provisions of that Act. In this case, Cabinet Order provides for the necessary technical replacement of terms in connection with those provisions.

⑭The provisions of Article 11-6 of the Supplementary Provisions of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act and of each of the preceding paragraphs do not apply to an employees' old-age pension under the provisions of Article 8 of the Supplementary Provisions of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act as Amended (limited to one whose beneficiary acquired the right to receive benefits before April 1, 1998).

①A beneficiary of an employees' old-age pension under the provisions of Article 8 of the Supplementary Provisions of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act (limited to one whose amount is calculated pursuant to the provisions of Article 43, paragraph (1) and Article 9 of the Supplementary Provisions of that Act) (limited to a person prescribed in Article 19, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions who has not reached the age set forth in the lower column of the table in that paragraph, a person prescribed in Article 20, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions who has not reached the age set forth in the lower column of the table in that paragraph, or a person prescribed in Article 20-2, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions who has not reached the age set forth in the lower column of the table in that paragraph) (limited to a person who is not an insured under the National Pension pursuant to the provisions of Article 5, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the National Pension Act) may make a claim to the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare for early payment of part of the old-age basic pension under that Act (hereinafter simply referred to as the "old-age basic pension" in this Article); provided, however, that this does not apply if that person has made the claim under Article 9-2, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of that Act.

②If the claim under the preceding paragraph is made, then, notwithstanding the provisions of Article 26 of the National Pension Act, the old-age basic pension is to be paid to that person from the day on which the claim was made.

③The amount of the old-age basic pension paid pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph is, notwithstanding the provisions of Article 27 of the National Pension Act, the amount obtained by subtracting the amount specified by Cabinet Order from the amount obtained by multiplying the amount provided for in that Article by the rate specified by Cabinet Order.

④When a beneficiary of the old-age basic pension under the provisions of paragraph (2) reaches the age of 65, then, notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the amount obtained by multiplying the amount provided for in Article 27 of the National Pension Act by the rate obtained by subtracting the rate specified by Cabinet Order prescribed in the preceding paragraph from one is to be added to the amount of that old-age basic pension, and the amount of the pension is to be revised from the month following the month in which the beneficiary reached the age of 65.

⑤The provisions of Article 9-2, paragraphs (5) and (6) and Article 9-2-3 of the Supplementary Provisions of the National Pension Act and Article 16-3, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act apply mutatis mutandis to the old-age basic pension under the provisions of paragraph (2). In this case, the phrase "the provisions of paragraph (4)" in Article 9-2, paragraph (6) of the Supplementary Provisions of the National Pension Act is deemed to be replaced with "the provisions of Article 27, paragraphs (3) and (4) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the National Pension Act, etc. (Act No. 95 of 1994)", and the phrase "in paragraph (4)" with "in Article 27, paragraphs (3) and (4) of the Supplementary Provisions of that Act".

⑥When a beneficiary of the employees' old-age pension prescribed in paragraph (1) has acquired the right to receive benefits from the old-age basic pension under the provisions of paragraph (2), the amount obtained by subtracting the amount specified by Cabinet Order from the amount prescribed in Article 9-2, paragraph (2), item (i) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act, calculated on the basis of the insured period under employees' pension insurance that forms the basis for calculating the amount of that employees' old-age pension (if the number of months is less than 240 and the beneficiary falls under any of Article 12, paragraph (1), items (iv) through (vii) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 1985 Amendment Act, 240) (hereinafter referred to as the "early payment adjustment amount" in this Article) is to be added to the amount of that employees' old-age pension, and the amount of the pension is to be revised from the month following the month in which the beneficiary acquired the right to receive benefits from that old-age basic pension.

⑦The provisions of Article 43, paragraph (3) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act do not apply to the early payment adjustment amount.

⑧When a beneficiary of the employees' old-age pension prescribed in paragraph (1) has acquired the right to receive benefits from the old-age basic pension under the provisions of paragraph (2), the provisions of Article 9-2, paragraphs (1) through (3), Article 9-3, paragraphs (3) and (4) and Article 9-4, paragraphs (4) and (5) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act, and Article 19, paragraphs (4) and (5), Article 20, paragraphs (4) and (5) and Article 20-2, paragraphs (4) and (5) of the Supplementary Provisions, do not apply to that person.

⑨In the month in which a beneficiary of an employees' old-age pension to which the early payment adjustment amount has been added (limited to one in which the number of months of the insured period under employees' pension insurance that forms the basis for calculating that amount is less than 480 (444 for a person born on or before April 1, 1944, 456 for a person born from April 2, 1944 through April 1, 1945, and 468 for a person born from April 2, 1945 through April 1, 1946; the same applies in this paragraph and paragraph (12))) (limited to a person prescribed in Article 19, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions) reaches the age set forth in the lower column of the table in paragraph (1) of that Article, if the number of months of the insured period under employees' pension insurance that forms the basis for calculating the amount of that employees' old-age pension (excluding the early payment adjustment amount) (480 if that number of months exceeds 480, and 240 if that number of months is less than 240 and the beneficiary falls under any of Article 12, paragraph (1), items (iv) through (vii) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 1985 Amendment Act; the same applies in the following paragraph and paragraph (11)) exceeds the number of months of the insured period under employees' pension insurance that forms the basis for calculating the early payment adjustment amount, then, notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (6), the amount obtained by adding, to the amount calculated pursuant to the provisions of that paragraph, the amount prescribed in Article 9-2, paragraph (2), item (i) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act calculated on the basis of the insured period under employees' pension insurance for the excess number of months (where Article 61, paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 1985 Amendment Act was applied to the calculation of that amount, the amount calculated as if it had not been applied; the same applies in paragraph (12)) is to be the early payment adjustment amount, and that amount is to be revised from the month following the month in which the beneficiary reached that age.

⑩The provisions of the preceding paragraph apply mutatis mutandis in the case where, in the month in which a beneficiary of an employees' old-age pension to which the early payment adjustment amount has been added (limited to one in which the number of months of the insured period under employees' pension insurance that forms the basis for calculating that amount is less than 480) (limited to a person prescribed in Article 20, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions) reaches the age set forth in the lower column of the table in paragraph (1) of that Article, the number of months of the insured period under employees' pension insurance that forms the basis for calculating the amount of that employees' old-age pension (excluding the early payment adjustment amount) exceeds the number of months of the insured period under employees' pension insurance that forms the basis for calculating the early payment adjustment amount.

⑪The provisions of paragraph (9) apply mutatis mutandis in the case where, in the month in which a beneficiary of an employees' old-age pension to which the early payment adjustment amount has been added (limited to one in which the number of months of the insured period under employees' pension insurance that forms the basis for calculating that amount is less than 480) (limited to a person prescribed in Article 20-2, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions) reaches the age set forth in the lower column of the table in paragraph (1) of that Article, the number of months of the insured period under employees' pension insurance that forms the basis for calculating that employees' old-age pension (excluding the early payment adjustment amount) exceeds the number of months of the insured period under employees' pension insurance that forms the basis for calculating the early payment adjustment amount.

⑫In the case where, on or after the month following the month in which a beneficiary of an employees' old-age pension to which the early payment adjustment amount has been added (limited to one in which the number of months of the insured period under employees' pension insurance that forms the basis for calculating that amount is less than 480) (limited to a person prescribed in Article 19, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions) reached the age set forth in the lower column of the table in paragraph (1) of that Article, the amount of that employees' old-age pension (excluding the early payment adjustment amount) is revised pursuant to the provisions of Article 43, paragraph (3) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act, then, notwithstanding the provisions of paragraphs (6) and (9), the amount prescribed in Article 9-2, paragraph (2), item (i) of the Supplementary Provisions of that Act, calculated on the basis of the insured period under employees' pension insurance for the number of months obtained by subtracting the number of months of the insured period under employees' pension insurance that forms the basis for calculating that early payment adjustment amount from the number of months of the insured period under employees' pension insurance that forms the basis for calculating the amount of the employees' old-age pension pertaining to that revision (excluding the early payment adjustment amount) (480 if that number of months exceeds 480, and 240 if that number of months is less than 240 and the beneficiary falls under any of Article 12, paragraph (1), items (iv) through (vii) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 1985 Amendment Act; the same applies in this paragraph), is to be added to that early payment adjustment amount, and that amount is to be revised at the same time as that revision; provided, however, that this does not apply if the number of months of the insured period under employees' pension insurance that forms the basis for calculating the amount of the employees' old-age pension pertaining to that revision (excluding the early payment adjustment amount) is equal to or less than the number of months of the insured period under employees' pension insurance that forms the basis for calculating that early payment adjustment amount.

⑬The provisions of the preceding paragraph apply mutatis mutandis in the case where, on or after the month following the month in which a beneficiary of an employees' old-age pension to which the early payment adjustment amount has been added (limited to one in which the number of months of the insured period under employees' pension insurance that forms the basis for calculating that amount is less than 480) (limited to a person prescribed in Article 20, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions) reached the age set forth in the lower column of the table in paragraph (1) of that Article, the amount of that employees' old-age pension (excluding the early payment adjustment amount) is revised pursuant to the provisions of Article 43, paragraph (3) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act. In this case, the phrase "paragraph (9)" in the preceding paragraph is deemed to be replaced with "paragraph (10)".

⑭The provisions of paragraph (12) apply mutatis mutandis in the case where, on or after the month following the month in which a beneficiary of an employees' old-age pension to which the early payment adjustment amount has been added (limited to one in which the number of months of the insured period under employees' pension insurance that forms the basis for calculating that amount is less than 480) (limited to a person prescribed in Article 20-2, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions) reached the age set forth in the lower column of the table in paragraph (1) of that Article, the amount of that employees' old-age pension (excluding the early payment adjustment amount) is revised pursuant to the provisions of Article 43, paragraph (3) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act. In this case, the phrase "paragraph (9)" in paragraph (12) is deemed to be replaced with "paragraph (11)".

⑮The provisions of Article 44 of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act apply mutatis mutandis to the amount of an employees' old-age pension to which the early payment adjustment amount has been added (limited to one whose beneficiary is a person prescribed in Article 19, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions). In this case, in Article 44, paragraph (1) of that Act, the phrase "at the time that the beneficiary acquired the right to receive benefits (or at the time that the insured period had reached 240 months pursuant to the provisions of Article 43, paragraph (2) or (3), if the insured period constituting the basis for the calculation of the amount of the employees' old-age pension was less than 240 months at the time that the beneficiary acquired the right to receive those benefits" is deemed to be replaced with "at the time that the beneficiary reached the age set forth in the lower column of the table in Article 19, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the National Pension Act, etc. (Act No. 95 of 1994) (or at the time that the insured period had reached 240 months pursuant to the provisions of Article 43, paragraph (3) or Article 27, paragraph (6), (9) or (12) of the Supplementary Provisions of that Act, if the insured period constituting the basis for the calculation of the amount of the employees' old-age pension was less than 240 months at the time that the beneficiary reached that age", the phrase "Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 43" with "Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 43, paragraph (1) and Article 9 of the Supplementary Provisions, and Article 27, paragraphs (6), (9) and (12) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the National Pension Act, etc.", and the phrase "is calculated by adding an additional amount of pension to the amount provided for in that Article" with "is calculated by adding an additional amount of pension to the amount provided for in those provisions, and the amount of the pension is revised from the month following the month in which the beneficiary reached that age, or from the month in which the number of months became 240 or more pursuant to the provisions of Article 43, paragraph (3) or Article 27, paragraph (6), (9) or (12) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the National Pension Act, etc."; and in Article 44, paragraph (3) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act, the phrase "at the time the beneficiary acquired the right to receive benefits" is deemed to be replaced with "at the time the beneficiary reached the age set forth in the lower column of the table in Article 19, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the National Pension Act, etc.".

⑯The provisions of Article 44 of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act apply mutatis mutandis to the amount of an employees' old-age pension to which the early payment adjustment amount has been added (limited to one whose beneficiary is a person prescribed in Article 20, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions). In this case, in Article 44, paragraph (1) of that Act, the phrase "at the time that the beneficiary acquired the right to receive benefits (or at the time that the insured period had reached 240 months pursuant to the provisions of Article 43, paragraph (2) or (3), if the insured period constituting the basis for the calculation of the amount of the employees' old-age pension was less than 240 months at the time that the beneficiary acquired the right to receive those benefits" is deemed to be replaced with "at the time that the beneficiary reached the age set forth in the lower column of the table in Article 20, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the National Pension Act, etc. (Act No. 95 of 1994) (or at the time that the insured period had reached 240 months pursuant to the provisions of Article 43, paragraph (3) or Article 27, paragraph (6), (10) or (13) of the Supplementary Provisions of that Act, if the insured period constituting the basis for the calculation of the amount of the employees' old-age pension was less than 240 months at the time that the beneficiary reached that age", the phrase "Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 43" with "Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 43, paragraph (1) and Article 9 of the Supplementary Provisions, and Article 27, paragraphs (6), (10) and (13) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the National Pension Act, etc.", and the phrase "is calculated by adding an additional amount of pension to the amount provided for in that Article" with "is calculated by adding an additional amount of pension to the amount provided for in those provisions, and the amount of the pension is revised from the month following the month in which the beneficiary reached that age, or from the month in which the number of months became 240 or more pursuant to the provisions of Article 43, paragraph (3) or Article 27, paragraph (6), (10) or (13) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the National Pension Act, etc."; and in Article 44, paragraph (3) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act, the phrase "at the time the beneficiary acquired the right to receive benefits" is deemed to be replaced with "at the time the beneficiary reached the age set forth in the lower column of the table in Article 20, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the National Pension Act, etc.".

⑰The provisions of Article 44 of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act apply mutatis mutandis to the amount of an employees' old-age pension to which the early payment adjustment amount has been added (limited to one whose beneficiary is a person prescribed in Article 20-2, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions). In this case, in Article 44, paragraph (1) of that Act, the phrase "at the time that the beneficiary acquired the right to receive benefits (or at the time that the insured period had reached 240 months pursuant to the provisions of Article 43, paragraph (2) or (3), if the insured period constituting the basis for the calculation of the amount of the employees' old-age pension was less than 240 months at the time that the beneficiary acquired the right to receive those benefits" is deemed to be replaced with "at the time that the beneficiary reached the age set forth in the lower column of the table in Article 20-2, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the National Pension Act, etc. (Act No. 95 of 1994) (or at the time that the insured period had reached 240 months pursuant to the provisions of Article 43, paragraph (3) or Article 27, paragraph (6), (11) or (14) of the Supplementary Provisions of that Act, if the insured period constituting the basis for the calculation of the amount of the employees' old-age pension was less than 240 months at the time that the beneficiary reached that age", the phrase "Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 43" with "Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 43, paragraph (1) and Article 9 of the Supplementary Provisions, and Article 27, paragraphs (6), (11) and (14) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the National Pension Act, etc.", and the phrase "is calculated by adding an additional amount of pension to the amount provided for in that Article" with "is calculated by adding an additional amount of pension to the amount provided for in those provisions, and the amount of the pension is revised from the month following the month in which the beneficiary reached that age, or from the month in which the number of months became 240 or more pursuant to the provisions of Article 43, paragraph (3) or Article 27, paragraph (6), (11) or (14) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the National Pension Act, etc."; and in Article 44, paragraph (3) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act, the phrase "at the time the beneficiary acquired the right to receive benefits" is deemed to be replaced with "at the time the beneficiary reached the age set forth in the lower column of the table in Article 20-2, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the National Pension Act, etc.".

⑱With regard to an employees' old-age pension to which the early payment adjustment amount has been added, the provisions of Article 21 of the Supplementary Provisions apply mutatis mutandis, notwithstanding the provisions of Article 11 of the Supplementary Provisions of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act. In this case, the phrase "Article 18, paragraph (3), Article 19, paragraph (3) or (5), Article 20, paragraph (3) or (5) or paragraph (3) or (5) of the preceding Article of the Supplementary Provisions" in Article 21, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions is deemed to be replaced with "Article 27, paragraphs (15) through (17) of the Supplementary Provisions", and the phrase "Article 44-2, paragraph (1) 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 86, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 2013 Amendment Act, as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 18, paragraph (3), Article 19, paragraph (3) or (5), Article 20, paragraph (3) or (5) or paragraph (3) or (5) of the preceding Article of the Supplementary Provisions" in Article 21, paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisions with "Article 44-2, paragraph (1) 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 86, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 2013 Amendment Act".

⑲The provisions of Article 9-2 of the Supplementary Provisions of the National Pension Act do not apply to a person who has made the claim under paragraph (1).

①Cabinet Order provides for the necessary technical replacement of terms in connection with the application of Article 13, paragraphs (2) through (4) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act with regard to the old-age pension benefit prescribed in Article 130, paragraph (1) 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, that is paid by a surviving employees' pension Fund prescribed in Article 3, item (xi) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 2013 Amendment Act to a beneficiary of an employees' old-age pension under the provisions of Article 8 of the Supplementary Provisions of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act (limited to one whose amount is calculated pursuant to the provisions of Article 18, Article 19, paragraphs (1) through (5), Article 20, paragraphs (1) through (5) or Article 20-2, paragraphs (1) through (5) of the Supplementary Provisions and Article 9 of the Supplementary Provisions of that Act, one to which the early payment adjustment amount prescribed in paragraph (6) of the preceding Article has been added, and an employees' old-age pension for persons with disabilities or long-term insureds prescribed in Article 11-2, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of that Act (limited to one whose beneficiary is a person who falls under Article 22 of the Supplementary Provisions)).

②Cabinet Order provides for the necessary technical replacement of terms in connection with the application of Article 13-2 of the Supplementary Provisions of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act with regard to the old-age pension benefit pertaining to a dissolved Fund to which the beneficiary of the employees' old-age pension prescribed in the preceding paragraph holds the right to receive benefits (meaning the old-age pension benefit that a surviving Pension Fund Association prescribed in Article 3, item (xiii) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 2013 Amendment Act pays, pursuant to the provisions of Article 161, paragraph (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 61, paragraph (3) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 2013 Amendment Act, to a member of a dissolved Fund prescribed in Article 149, paragraph (1) 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 38, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 2013 Amendment Act; the same applies hereinafter in this Article).

③The provisions of Article 24, paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisions apply mutatis mutandis to the old-age pension benefit pertaining to a dissolved Fund (excluding the portion equivalent to the amount added pursuant to the provisions of Article 161, paragraph (5) 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 61, paragraph (3) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 2013 Amendment Act). In this case, the term "beneficiary" in Article 24, paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisions is deemed to be replaced with "person who holds the right to receive benefits".

With regard to the application of the provisions of Article 14, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act, for the time being, the phrase "and Article 7-3, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions" in that paragraph is deemed to be replaced with ", Article 7-3, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions", and the phrase "Article 29, paragraph (1)" with "Article 29, paragraph (1) and Article 15, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the National Pension Act, etc. (Act No. 95 of 1994) (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to paragraph (3) of that Article)".

①With regard to the application of the provisions of Article 16 of the Supplementary Provisions of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act, for the time being, the phrase "or Article 9-4, paragraphs (1) and (3)" in paragraph (2) of that Article is deemed to be replaced with "or Article 9-4, paragraphs (1) and (3), or Article 18, paragraphs (2) and (3), Article 19, paragraphs (2) and (3), Article 20, paragraphs (2) and (3), or Article 20-2, paragraphs (2) and (3) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the National Pension Act, etc. (Act No. 95 of 1994)".

②With regard to the employees' old-age pension to be paid when a person who was a beneficiary of an employees' old-age pension under the provisions of Article 8 of the Supplementary Provisions of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act whose amount is calculated pursuant to the provisions of Article 19, paragraphs (4) and (5) of the Supplementary Provisions, or an employees' old-age pension to which the early payment adjustment amount prescribed in Article 27, paragraph (6) of the Supplementary Provisions has been added (limited to one whose beneficiary is a person prescribed in Article 19, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions) (in either case, limited to one for which the number of months of the insured period that forms the basis for calculating the amount of the pension is 240 or more), reaches the age of 65, in Article 44, paragraph (1) of that Act, the phrase "at the time that the beneficiary acquired the right to receive benefits (or at the time that the insured period had reached 240 months pursuant to the provisions of Article 43, paragraph (2) or (3), if the insured period constituting the basis for the calculation of the amount of the employees' old-age pension was less than 240 months at the time that the beneficiary acquired the right to receive those benefits" is deemed to be replaced with "continuously from the time that the beneficiary reached the age set forth in the lower column of the table in Article 19, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the National Pension Act, etc. (Act No. 95 of 1994) (or, if the number of months of the insured period constituting the basis for the calculation of the amount of the employees' old-age pension under the provisions of Article 8 of the Supplementary Provisions was less than 240 months at the time that the beneficiary reached that age, continuously from the time that the number of months reached 240 or more pursuant to the provisions of Article 43, paragraph (3) or Article 27, paragraph (6), (9) or (12) of the Supplementary Provisions of that Act", and the phrase "at the time the beneficiary acquired the right to receive benefits" in Article 44, paragraph (3) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act with "continuously from the time the beneficiary reached the age set forth in the lower column of the table in Article 19, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the National Pension Act, etc.".

③With regard to the employees' old-age pension to be paid when a person who was a beneficiary of an employees' old-age pension under the provisions of Article 8 of the Supplementary Provisions of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act whose amount is calculated pursuant to the provisions of Article 20, paragraphs (4) and (5) of the Supplementary Provisions, or an employees' old-age pension to which the early payment adjustment amount prescribed in Article 27, paragraph (6) of the Supplementary Provisions has been added (limited to one whose beneficiary is a person prescribed in Article 20, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions) (in either case, limited to one for which the number of months of the insured period that forms the basis for calculating the amount of the pension is 240 or more), reaches the age of 65, in Article 44, paragraph (1) of that Act, the phrase "at the time that the beneficiary acquired the right to receive benefits (or at the time that the insured period had reached 240 months pursuant to the provisions of Article 43, paragraph (2) or (3), if the insured period constituting the basis for the calculation of the amount of the employees' old-age pension was less than 240 months at the time that the beneficiary acquired the right to receive those benefits" is deemed to be replaced with "continuously from the time that the beneficiary reached the age set forth in the lower column of the table in Article 20, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the National Pension Act, etc. (Act No. 95 of 1994) (or, if the number of months of the insured period constituting the basis for the calculation of the amount of the employees' old-age pension under the provisions of Article 8 of the Supplementary Provisions was less than 240 months at the time that the beneficiary reached that age, continuously from the time that the number of months reached 240 or more pursuant to the provisions of Article 43, paragraph (3) or Article 27, paragraph (6), (10) or (13) of the Supplementary Provisions of that Act", and the phrase "at the time the beneficiary acquired the right to receive benefits" in Article 44, paragraph (3) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act with "continuously from the time the beneficiary reached the age set forth in the lower column of the table in Article 20, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the National Pension Act, etc.".

④With regard to the employees' old-age pension to be paid when a person who was a beneficiary of an employees' old-age pension under the provisions of Article 8 of the Supplementary Provisions of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act whose amount is calculated pursuant to the provisions of Article 20-2, paragraphs (4) and (5) of the Supplementary Provisions, or an employees' old-age pension to which the early payment adjustment amount prescribed in Article 27, paragraph (6) of the Supplementary Provisions has been added (limited to one whose beneficiary is a person prescribed in Article 20-2, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions) (in either case, limited to one for which the number of months of the insured period that forms the basis for calculating the amount of the pension is 240 or more), reaches the age of 65, in Article 44, paragraph (1) of that Act, the phrase "at the time that the beneficiary acquired the right to receive benefits (or at the time that the insured period had reached 240 months pursuant to the provisions of Article 43, paragraph (2) or (3), if the insured period constituting the basis for the calculation of the amount of the employees' old-age pension was less than 240 months at the time that the beneficiary acquired the right to receive those benefits" is deemed to be replaced with "continuously from the time that the beneficiary reached the age set forth in the lower column of the table in Article 20-2, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the National Pension Act, etc. (Act No. 95 of 1994) (or, if the number of months of the insured period constituting the basis for the calculation of the amount of the employees' old-age pension under the provisions of Article 8 of the Supplementary Provisions was less than 240 months at the time that the beneficiary reached that age, continuously from the time that the number of months reached 240 or more pursuant to the provisions of Article 43, paragraph (3) or Article 27, paragraph (6), (11) or (14) of the Supplementary Provisions of that Act", and the phrase "at the time the beneficiary acquired the right to receive benefits" in Article 44, paragraph (3) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act with "continuously from the time the beneficiary reached the age set forth in the lower column of the table in Article 20-2, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the National Pension Act, etc.".

①With regard to a person who held the right to receive benefits of an employees' old-age pension under the provisions of Article 8 of the Supplementary Provisions of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act Before the Amendment (hereinafter referred to as the "employees' old-age pension before the amendment" in this Article) before April 1, 1995, the provisions of Article 8 of the Supplementary Provisions of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act as Amended and Article 15, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions do not apply.

②With regard to the employees' old-age pension before the amendment, except where the provisions of the following paragraph and paragraph (4) are applied, the provisions then in force continue to govern.

③With regard to the employees' old-age pension before the amendment, the provisions concerning the calculation of its amount remain in force. In this case, Cabinet Order provides for the necessary technical replacement of terms in connection with the application of those provisions.

④With regard to the employees' old-age pension before the amendment, the provisions of Article 8, paragraph (4), Article 11, Article 13, paragraph (3) and Article 13-2 of the Supplementary Provisions of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act Before the Amendment do not apply, and, deeming it to be an employees' old-age pension under the provisions of Article 8 of the Supplementary Provisions of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act as Amended (limited to one whose amount is calculated pursuant to the provisions of Article 18 of the Supplementary Provisions), the provisions of Article 13, paragraphs (2) through (4) and Article 13-2 of the Supplementary Provisions of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act, and Articles 21 and 23, Article 24, paragraph (2) and Article 28 of the Supplementary Provisions apply. In this case, Cabinet Order provides for the necessary technical replacement of terms in connection with the application of those provisions.

①With regard to a person who held the right to receive benefits of a special old-age pension under the provisions of Article 28-3, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act Before the Amendment (hereinafter referred to as the "special old-age pension before the amendment" in this Article) before April 1, 1995, the provisions of Article 28-3, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act do not apply.

②With regard to the special old-age pension before the amendment, except where the provisions of the following paragraph and paragraph (4) are applied, the provisions then in force continue to govern.

③With regard to the special old-age pension before the amendment, the provisions concerning the calculation of its amount remain in force.