①This Act comes into effect on April 1, 2000; provided, however, that the provisions set forth in the following items come into effect on the dates specified respectively in those items:

②The procedures and other acts necessary for establishing the basic policy prescribed in Article 77, paragraph (1) of the National Pension Act after the revision under the provisions of Article 3, and the basic policy prescribed in Article 79-4, paragraph (1) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act after the revision under the provisions of Article 7, may be performed even before the effective date.

With regard to the amounts of the pension insurance benefits under the Employees' Pension Insurance Act for the months of March 2000 and earlier, the pension insurance benefits prescribed in Article 78, paragraph (1) and Article 87, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 1985 Amendment Act, and the benefits in the form of pensions prescribed in Article 16, paragraphs (1) and (2) 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"), the provisions then in force continue to govern.

①Of persons who acquired the status of an insured covered by employees' pension insurance before October 1, 2000 and have continuously held that status until that day (excluding a person who holds the status of that insured pursuant to Article 15, paragraph (1) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act prior to the amendment by Article 3 of the 1985 Amendment Act, which remains in force pursuant to Article 43, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 1985 Amendment Act (hereinafter referred to as the "Former Employees' Pension Insurance Act"), or pursuant to Article 43, paragraph (2) or (5) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 1985 Amendment Act (hereinafter referred to as a "class 4 insured person")), the standardized remuneration of a person who acquired the status of an insured covered by employees' pension insurance during the period from July 1, 2000 through September 30, 2000, or a person whose standardized remuneration was revised from August or September of that year pursuant to the provisions of Article 23, paragraph (1) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act, and whose standard monthly remuneration for the same month of that year is 92,000 yen or 590,000 yen (excluding a person for whom the amount of monthly remuneration that formed the basis for that standard monthly remuneration is less than 605,000 yen), is to be revised by the Director-General of the Social Insurance Agency, deeming the amount of monthly remuneration that formed the basis for that standard monthly remuneration to be the amount of monthly remuneration forming the basis for standardized remuneration under the provisions of Article 20 of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act as amended by the provisions of Article 4.

②The standardized remuneration revised pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph is to be the standardized remuneration for each month from October 2000 through September 2001.

③The standard monthly remuneration on or after October 2000 of a class 4 insured person whose standard monthly remuneration is less than 98,000 yen is to be 98,000 yen, notwithstanding the provisions of 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.

①With regard to the amounts of the pension insurance benefits under the Employees' Pension Insurance Act in each fiscal year from fiscal year 2000 through fiscal year 2002, if the amount set forth in item (i) is less than the amount set forth in item (ii), the amount provided for in Article 43 of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act as amended by the provisions of Article 4 (including where it is followed by example in Article 50, paragraph (1) and Article 60, paragraph (1) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act, and where it is applied in Article 44-2, paragraph (1) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act as read pursuant to Article 44, paragraph (1) and Article 44-3, paragraph (4) of that Act, Article 59, paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 1985 Amendment Act as amended by the provisions of Article 13, and Article 17-2, paragraph (6) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act) and in Article 9-2, paragraph (2), item (ii) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act as amended by the provisions of Article 4 (including where it is followed by example in Article 9-3, paragraphs (1) and (3) of the Supplementary Provisions of that Act (including where it is followed by example in paragraph (5) of that Article), in Article 9-4, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act (including where it is followed by example in Article 28-3, paragraph (2) and Article 28-4, paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisions of that Act) and paragraph (4) of Article 9-4 of the Supplementary Provisions of that Act (including where it is followed by example in paragraph (6) of Article 9-4 of the Supplementary Provisions of that Act), and in Article 18, paragraph (2), Article 19, paragraphs (2) and (4) and Article 20, paragraphs (2) and (4) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the National Pension Act, etc. (Act No. 95 of 1994; hereinafter referred to as the "1994 Amendment Act")) is to be the amount set forth in item (ii), notwithstanding those provisions.

②With regard to the standard monthly remuneration that forms the basis for calculating the average standardized monthly amount of remuneration in calculating the amount set forth in item (ii) of the preceding paragraph, notwithstanding the provisions of Article 43 of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act prior to the amendment by the provisions of Article 4, which is to be followed by example pursuant to the provisions of item (ii) of the preceding paragraph, and Article 17-2, paragraphs (1) through (4) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act, it is to be the amount obtained by multiplying the standard monthly remuneration for each month of the period during which the person was an insured by the rate set forth in the lower column of Appended Table 1 of the Supplementary Provisions according to the classification of periods set forth in the upper column of that table.

③In calculating the amount set forth in paragraph (1), item (ii), with regard to the standard monthly remuneration that forms the basis for calculating the average standardized monthly amount of remuneration for the period as an insured under mariners' insurance (hereinafter referred to as the "period as an insured under mariners' insurance") under the Mariners Insurance Act (Act No. 73 of 1939) prior to the amendment by the provisions of Article 5 of the 1985 Amendment Act (hereinafter referred to as the "Former Mariners Insurance Act"), which was deemed to be a period during which the person was an insured covered by employees' pension insurance pursuant to the provisions of Article 47, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 1985 Amendment Act, notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding paragraph, Article 43 of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act prior to the amendment by the provisions of Article 4, which is to be followed by example pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1), item (ii), and Article 17-2, paragraphs (1) and (2) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act as amended by the provisions of Article 4, it is to be the amount obtained by multiplying the standard monthly remuneration for each month of the period as an insured under mariners' insurance by the rate set forth in the lower column of Appended Table 2 of the Supplementary Provisions according to the classification of periods set forth in the upper column of that table.

④With regard to the application of the provisions of paragraph (2) to a person who has a period of former applicable corporation mutual aid membership belonging to the period on or before September 1985 (meaning the period of former applicable corporation mutual aid membership prescribed in Article 3, item (viii) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 1996 Amendment Act; the same applies hereinafter), the phrase "the amount obtained by multiplying the standard monthly remuneration for each month of the period during which the person was an insured by the rate set forth in the lower column of Appended Table 1 of the Supplementary Provisions according to the classification of periods set forth in the upper column of that table" in that paragraph is deemed to be replaced with "the amount obtained by multiplying the standard monthly remuneration for each month of the period during which the person was an insured by the rate set forth in the lower column of Appended Table 1 of the Supplementary Provisions according to the classification of periods set forth in the upper column of that table (or, if the month is a month that formed the basis for calculating a period of former applicable corporation mutual aid membership prescribed in Article 3, item (viii) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 1996 Amendment Act that belongs to the period on or before September 1985 (excluding a period added to the period of former applicable corporation mutual aid membership pursuant to Article 32, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the National Public Officers, etc. Mutual Aid Association Act, etc. (Act No. 105 of 1985)), the amount obtained by multiplying the standard monthly remuneration for that month by 1.22)".

⑤With regard to the application of the provisions of paragraph (2) to a person who has a period of former agriculture, forestry and fishery mutual aid membership belonging to the period on or before September 1985 (meaning the period of former agriculture, forestry and fishery mutual aid membership prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (1), item (vii) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Repealing the Mutual Aid Association Act for Employees of Agricultural, Forestry and Fishery Organizations, etc. for the Integration of the Employees' Pension Insurance System and the Mutual Aid Association System for Employees of Agricultural, Forestry and Fishery Organizations (Act No. 101 of 2001); the same applies hereinafter), the phrase "the amount obtained by multiplying the standard monthly remuneration for each month of the period during which the person was an insured by the rate set forth in the lower column of Appended Table 1 of the Supplementary Provisions according to the classification of periods set forth in the upper column of that table" in that paragraph is deemed to be replaced with "the amount obtained by multiplying the standard monthly remuneration for each month of the period during which the person was an insured by the rate set forth in the lower column of Appended Table 1 of the Supplementary Provisions according to the classification of periods set forth in the upper column of that table (or, if the month is a month that formed the basis for calculating the period of former agriculture, forestry and fishery mutual aid membership prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (1), item (vii) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Repealing the Mutual Aid Association Act for Employees of Agricultural, Forestry and Fishery Organizations, etc. for the Integration of the Employees' Pension Insurance System and the Mutual Aid Association System for Employees of Agricultural, Forestry and Fishery Organizations (Act No. 101 of 2001) that belongs to the period on or before September 1985, the amount obtained by multiplying the standard monthly remuneration for that month by 1.22)".

⑥The provisions of each of the preceding paragraphs apply mutatis mutandis to disability allowances under the Employees' Pension Insurance Act, pension insurance benefits and disability allowances under the Former Employees' Pension Insurance Act, and pension insurance benefits and disability allowances under the Former Mariners Insurance Act. In this case, Cabinet Order provides for the necessary technical replacement of terms in connection with those provisions.

With regard to a person who is, at the time the provisions set forth in Article 1, item (i) of the Supplementary Provisions come into effect, an auditor of an employees' pension Fund selected from among persons with knowledge and experience, the provisions then in force continue to govern, notwithstanding the provisions of Article 119, paragraph (4) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act as amended by the provisions of Article 4, only for the remainder of that person's term as that auditor.