This Act comes into effect on April 1, 1997.

①The Act on Special Measures for Adjusting the Cost Burden among Employees' Pension Systems (Act No. 87 of 1989) is repealed.

②With regard to the adjustment grants and adjustment contributions under the provisions of the Act on Special Measures for Adjusting the Cost Burden among Employees' Pension Systems prior to its repeal under the provisions of the preceding paragraph (referred to as the "former Inter-System Adjustment Act" in the following paragraph and Article 82 of the Supplementary Provisions) for fiscal years 1996 and earlier, the provisions then in force continue to govern.

③The provisions of the former Inter-System Adjustment Act remain in force with regard to the amount required for benefits in the form of pensions that have old age or retirement as the grounds for payment, for the months of February 1997 and March 1997, paid by the government as the administrator of employees' pension insurance, the mutual aid Associations organized by law, and the surviving Associations prescribed in Article 32, paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisions. In this case, Cabinet Order provides for the necessary technical replacement of terms.

In this Article through Article 10 of the Supplementary Provisions, and in Articles 12 and 13, Articles 15 through 19, Articles 21 through 27, Articles 29 through 33, Articles 35, 37 and 38, Articles 40 through 43, and Articles 45, 46, 49, 54, 59, 61, 64, 66, 67 and 119 of the Supplementary Provisions, the meanings of the terms set forth in the following items are as prescribed in those items:

A person who was born on or after April 2, 1932 and who was a member of a former applicable corporation mutual aid Association on the day preceding the day on which this Act comes into effect (hereinafter referred to as the "Effective Date"), and who is employed on the Effective Date at a place of business or office of a former applicable corporation (meaning an applicable corporation prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (1), item (vii) of the pre-amendment National Public Officers Mutual Aid Act; the same applies hereinafter) or of a designated corporation prescribed in Article 111-6, paragraph (1) of the pre-amendment National Public Officers Mutual Aid Act, that is an applicable place of business prescribed in Article 6, paragraph (1) or (3) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act (excluding a person who acquires the status of an insured covered by employees' pension insurance on the Effective Date pursuant to the provisions of Article 13 of that Act), acquires the status of an insured covered by employees' pension insurance on the Effective Date.

①A period of former applicable corporation mutual aid membership is deemed to be a category I EPI insured period prescribed in Article 2-5, paragraph (1), item (i) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act (hereinafter referred to as a "category I EPI insured period"); provided, however, that this does not apply to the following periods:

②With regard to the period of former applicable corporation mutual aid membership that is deemed to be a category I EPI insured period pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, when calculating the insured period under employees' pension insurance for the period during which the person was a former mariner member prescribed in Article 32, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 1985 National Public Officers Mutual Aid Amendment Act before the day on which the 1985 National Public Officers Mutual Aid Amendment Act came into effect, the period obtained by multiplying that period by 4/3 is treated as the insured period under employees' pension insurance.

③With regard to the period of former applicable corporation mutual aid membership that is deemed to be a category I EPI insured period pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1), when calculating the insured period under employees' pension insurance for the period during which the person was a new mariner member prescribed in Article 32, paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 1985 National Public Officers Mutual Aid Amendment Act, from the day on which the 1985 National Public Officers Mutual Aid Amendment Act came into effect through March 31, 1991, the period obtained by multiplying that period by 6/5 is treated as the insured period under employees' pension insurance.

The standardized monthly amount of remuneration under the National Public Officers, etc. Mutual Aid Association Act Before the Amendment for each month of a period as a member of a former applicable corporation mutual aid Association before the Effective Date (excluding a period added to a period as a member of a former applicable corporation mutual aid Association pursuant to the provisions of Article 32, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 1985 National Public Officers Mutual Aid Amendment Act) (for a period before April 1, 1986, the amount calculated in the same manner as under the provisions of Article 9 of the Supplementary Provisions of the 1985 National Public Officers Mutual Aid Amendment Act) is deemed to be the standardized monthly amount of remuneration under the Employees' Pension Insurance Act for that month.

①Except as otherwise provided in these Supplementary Provisions, the following dispositions, procedures and other acts (limited to dispositions, procedures and other acts concerning a person who has a period as a member of a former applicable corporation mutual aid Association) are deemed to be dispositions, procedures and other acts carried out under the corresponding provisions of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act or orders based on it:

②When the provisions of Article 3, paragraph (1), items (i) and (iii) of the Act on Social Insurance Examiners and the Examination Committee of Social Insurance (Act No. 206 of 1953) are applied to the dispositions set forth in the items of the preceding paragraph that are deemed to be dispositions under the Employees' Pension Insurance Act pursuant to the provisions of that paragraph, the phrase "taken by the Japan Pension Service (hereinafter referred to as 'JPS')" in Article 3, paragraph (1), item (i) of the Act on Social Insurance Examiners and the Examination Committee of Social Insurance is deemed to be replaced with "deemed, pursuant to the provisions of Article 7, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the Employees' Pension Insurance Act, etc. (Act No. 82 of 1996; hereinafter referred to as the '1996 Amendment Act'), to have been taken by the Japan Pension Service (hereinafter referred to as 'JPS')", the phrase "the regional bureau of health and welfare having jurisdiction over the location of the office of JPS that handled the affairs relating to that disposition (where a pension office (meaning a pension office prescribed in Article 29 of the Japan Pension Organization Act (Act No. 109 of 2007); the same applies hereinafter in this paragraph and Article 5, paragraph (2)) handled those affairs, the secondary office (meaning a secondary office prescribed in Article 4, paragraph (2) of that Act; the same applies hereinafter in this paragraph and Article 5, paragraph (2)) in which that pension office shares a part of its duties; and where there is an office of JPS through which the requester for administrative review went regarding that disposition, that office of JPS through which the requester went (where the requester went through a pension office, the secondary office in which that pension office shares a part of its duties))" with "the regional bureau of health and welfare having jurisdiction over the requester's address", the phrase "taken by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare" in Article 3, paragraph (1), item (iii) of the Act on Social Insurance Examiners and the Examination Committee of Social Insurance with "deemed, pursuant to the provisions of Article 7, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 1996 Amendment Act, to have been taken by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare", and the phrase "the regional bureau of health and welfare or office of JPS through which the requester for administrative review went regarding that disposition (where the requester went through a secondary office, that secondary office (where the requester went through a pension office, the secondary office in which that pension office shares a part of its duties)), or" with "the regional bureau of health and welfare having jurisdiction over the requester's address, or".

①With regard to the amount of an employees' old-age pension under the Employees' Pension Insurance Act that is paid to a person who held, on the day preceding the Effective Date, the right to receive benefits from any of the pension benefits set forth in the following items, the period as a member of a former applicable corporation mutual aid Association that served as the basis for calculating the amount of that pension benefit (for a person who holds the right to receive benefits from the pension benefit set forth in item (i), including an insured period under employees' pension insurance that continues from that period as a member of a former applicable corporation mutual aid Association and satisfies the requirements specified by Cabinet Order) is not used as a basis for calculation.

②With regard to the amount of an employees' old-age pension under the Employees' Pension Insurance Act that is paid to a person who fell under any of the following items on the day preceding the Effective Date (excluding a person who fell under any of the items of the preceding paragraph on that day), the period as a member of a former applicable corporation mutual aid Association is not used as a basis for calculation; provided, however, that this does not apply to a person who fell under item (i) or (ii) if, within 60 days from the Effective Date, the person has notified the Director-General of the Social Insurance Agency of the person's wish to have the period as a member of a former applicable corporation mutual aid Association used as a basis for calculating the amount of the employees' old-age pension under the Employees' Pension Insurance Act.

①An employees' disability pension under the provisions of Article 47-2, paragraph (1) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act is not paid, notwithstanding the provisions of that paragraph, to a person who has previously held the right to receive benefits from a pension benefit under the National Public Officers, etc. Mutual Aid Association Act Before the Amendment or the Former National Public Officers, etc. Mutual Aid Association Act for which disability is the grounds for payment (including those deemed to be those pensions pursuant to the provisions of other laws and regulations; the same applies hereinafter) with regard to a disability caused by the same injury or illness, or to any other person specified by Cabinet Order.

②If a person who has previously held, before the Effective Date, the right to receive benefits from a pension benefit under the National Public Officers, etc. Mutual Aid Association Act Before the Amendment or the Former National Public Officers, etc. Mutual Aid Association Act for which disability is the grounds for payment and who has a period as a member of a former applicable corporation mutual aid Association (excluding a person who holds the right to receive benefits from that benefit on the Effective Date and a person who holds the right to receive benefits from a disability mutual aid pension under the National Public Officers, etc. Mutual Aid Association Act Before the Amendment that is paid pursuant to the provisions of Article 8, paragraph (1) or (2) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the National Public Officers, etc. Mutual Aid Association Act, etc. (Act No. 98 of 1994) with regard to the injury or illness that was the grounds for payment of that benefit) has, due to the injury or illness that was the grounds for payment of that benefit, a disability of a degree of severity that is classified as a disability grade prescribed in Article 47, paragraph (2) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act (hereinafter simply referred to as the "disability grade" in this paragraph) on the Effective Date, 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 to the day preceding the day on which the person reaches 65 years of age, the person may claim payment of the employees' disability pension under paragraph (1) of that Article 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) to the day preceding the day on which the person reaches 65 years of age.

③When a claim under the preceding paragraph is made, notwithstanding the provisions of 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 claim.

Necessary transitional measures for applying the provisions of Articles 47 through 47-3 and Article 55 of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act to a disability caused by an injury or illness for which the day on which the person contracted the illness or suffered the injury is before the Effective Date or for which the day of initial examination is before the Effective Date (limited to a disability caused by an injury or illness during a period as a member of a former applicable corporation mutual aid Association) are specified by Cabinet Order.

①Necessary transitional measures concerning payment of an employees' pension for surviving family under the Employees' Pension Insurance Act in the case where a person specified by Cabinet Order from among the beneficiaries of a pension benefit (excluding one for which death is the grounds for payment) that is to be paid by the government as the implementing organization of employees' pension insurance pursuant to the provisions of Article 16, paragraph (3) of the Supplementary Provisions and other persons dies on or after the Effective Date are specified by Cabinet Order.

②In applying the provisions of Article 59, paragraph (1) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act to the death of a person who died before April 1, 2007 (limited to a person specified by Cabinet Order prescribed in the preceding paragraph), the phrase "being 55 years of age or older" in item (i) of that paragraph is deemed to be replaced with "being 55 years of age or older, or having a disability of a degree of severity that is classified as Grade 1 or Grade 2 of the disability grades".

③The right to receive benefits from an employees' pension for surviving family under the Employees' Pension Insurance Act held by a husband, parent or grandparent who is a surviving family member prescribed in Article 59, paragraph (1) of that Act as read pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph ceases to exist when the circumstances cease with regard to the husband, parent or grandparent who has a disability of a degree of severity that is classified as Grade 1 or Grade 2 of the disability grades prescribed in Article 47, paragraph (2) of that Act; provided, however, that this does not apply if the husband, parent or grandparent was 55 years of age or older at the time of acquiring the right to receive benefits.

④While a husband, parent or grandparent who is a surviving family member prescribed in Article 59, paragraph (1) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act as read pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (2) has continuously, since the time the person acquired the right to receive benefits from an employees' pension for surviving family under that Act, had a disability of a degree of severity that is classified as Grade 1 or Grade 2 of the disability grades prescribed in Article 47, paragraph (2) of that Act, the provisions of Article 65-2 of that Act do not apply to that person.

A period that was to be included, on the day preceding the Effective Date, in a period as a member of a former applicable corporation mutual aid Association pursuant to the provisions of other laws and regulations is deemed, for the purpose of applying the provisions of Article 8, paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 1985 National Pension Amendment Act, to be a period as a member of a National Public Servants Mutual Aid Association prescribed in Article 3, paragraph (1) of the National Public Officers Mutual Aid Association Act Before the 2012 Unification.

A person who has a period as a member of a former applicable corporation mutual aid Association and who, on the day preceding the Effective Date, fell under any of Article 12, paragraph (1), items (viii) through (xi) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 1985 National Pension Amendment Act, and who falls under the proviso to Article 26 of the National Pension Act (Act No. 141 of 1959) on the Effective Date (excluding a person who is deemed not to fall under the proviso to Article 26 of that Act pursuant to the provisions of Article 9, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of that Act and a person who falls under any of the items of Article 12, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 1985 National Pension Amendment Act), is deemed, for the purpose of applying the provisions of Article 7, paragraph (2), Article 12, paragraph (1), Article 18, paragraph (1) and Article 57 of the Supplementary Provisions of the 1985 National Pension Amendment Act, to fall under any of Article 12, paragraph (1), items (viii) through (xi) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 1985 National Pension Amendment Act.

Of the expenses required for benefits in the form of pensions that are to be paid under the provisions of Article 16, paragraph (3) of the Supplementary Provisions by the government as the executor of employees' pension insurance, the employees' pension equivalent benefit expenses (meaning expenses calculated as specified by Cabinet Order as the expenses required for benefits equivalent to the pension insurance benefits under the Employees' Pension Insurance Act; the same applies in Articles 19 and 20 of the Supplementary Provisions) are deemed to be expenses required for insurance benefits under that Act for the purpose of applying the provisions of Article 2-4, paragraph (1) of that Act, and are deemed to be expenses required for the insurance benefits specified by Cabinet Order prescribed in Article 84-3 of that Act for the purpose of applying the provisions of that Article.

Beyond what is provided for in these Supplementary Provisions, transitional measures necessary incidental to the enforcement of this Act are specified by Cabinet Order.