For the time being, a specified under-three-quarters part-time worker employed at a place of business other than an applicable place of business is not an insured covered by employees' pension insurance, notwithstanding the provisions of Article 10, paragraph (1) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act and Article 4-5, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of that Act as revised by the provisions of Article 3.

①Among persons who, before the item (v) Effective Date, acquired the status of an insured covered by employees' pension insurance (excluding category II EPI insureds prescribed in Article 2-5, paragraph (1), item (ii) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act and category III EPI insureds prescribed in item (iii) of that paragraph; the same applies hereinafter in this paragraph), and who continue to have the status of an insured covered by employees' pension insurance until the item (v) Effective Date (excluding persons whose standard monthly remuneration (meaning the standard monthly remuneration prescribed in Article 20, paragraph (1) of that Act; the same applies hereinafter in this Article) is to be revised from October 2016), for those whose standard monthly remuneration for September of that year is 98,000 yen (excluding those for whom the amount of monthly remuneration that formed the basis of that standard monthly remuneration is 93,000 yen or more), the standard monthly remuneration is to be revised by the implementing organization, by deeming the amount of monthly remuneration that formed the basis of that standard monthly remuneration to be the amount of monthly remuneration that forms the basis of the standard monthly remuneration under Article 20, paragraph (1) of that Act as amended by the provisions of Article 3.

②The standard monthly remuneration revised pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph is the standard monthly remuneration for each month from October 2016 through August 2017.

③The provisions of the preceding two paragraphs apply mutatis mutandis when calculating the amount equivalent to the standard monthly remuneration under Article 46, paragraph (1) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act. In this case, the phrase "acquired the status of an insured covered by employees' pension insurance (excluding category II EPI insureds prescribed in Article 2-5, paragraph (1), item (ii) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act and category III EPI insureds prescribed in item (iii) of that paragraph; the same applies hereinafter in this paragraph)" in paragraph (1) is deemed to be replaced with "satisfied the requirements specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare under Article 27 of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act", and the phrase "have the status of an insured covered by employees' pension insurance" is deemed to be replaced with "be persons aged 70 or over who satisfy those requirements and who were insureds covered by employees' pension insurance".

④The implementing organization (limited to the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare) is to have JPS carry out the administrative functions relating to its revision of the standard monthly remuneration pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) (including as applied mutatis mutandis in the preceding paragraph). In this case, in Article 23, paragraph (3) of the Japan Pension Organization Act, the phrase "the Employees' Pension Insurance Act" is deemed to be replaced with "the Employees' Pension Insurance Act or the Act Partially Amending the National Pension Act, etc. to Strengthen, etc. the Financial Basis and Minimum Guarantee Function of the Public Pension System (Act No. 62 of 2012)"; in Article 26, paragraph (2) of that Act, the phrase "the Employees' Pension Insurance Act" is deemed to be replaced with "the Employees' Pension Insurance Act or the Act Partially Amending the National Pension Act, etc. to Strengthen, etc. the Financial Basis and Minimum Guarantee Function of the Public Pension System"; in Article 27, paragraph (1), item (i) of that Act, the phrase "administrative functions related to the authority prescribed in Article 100-4, paragraph (1) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act, the administrative functions prescribed in Article 100-10, paragraph (1) of that Act" is deemed to be replaced with "administrative functions related to the authority prescribed in Article 100-4, paragraph (1) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act and Article 17-4, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the National Pension Act, etc. to Strengthen, etc. the Financial Basis and Minimum Guarantee Function of the Public Pension System (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to paragraph (3) of that Article), the administrative functions prescribed in Article 100-10, paragraph (1) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act"; and in Article 48, paragraph (1) of that Act, the phrase "the Employees' Pension Insurance Act" is deemed to be replaced with "the Employees' Pension Insurance Act or the Act Partially Amending the National Pension Act, etc. to Strengthen, etc. the Financial Basis and Minimum Guarantee Function of the Public Pension System".

The provisions of Article 23-3 of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act as amended by the provisions of Article 3 apply to the insured's maternity leave prescribed in paragraph (1) of that Article (referred to as "insured's maternity leave" in the following Article and Article 20 of the Supplementary Provisions) that ends on or after the item (iv) Effective Date.

With regard to a person who, on the item (iv) Effective Date, is subject to the provisions of Article 26 of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act and who is on insured's maternity leave to which the provisions of Article 81-2-2 of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act as amended by the provisions of Article 3 apply, the provisions of Article 26, paragraph (1), item (vi) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act as amended by the provisions of Article 3 apply by deeming that the person began the insured's maternity leave on the item (iv) Effective Date.

With regard to a person who began leave equivalent to insured's maternity leave before the item (iv) Effective Date, Article 81-2-2 of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act, or Article 139, paragraph (9) or Article 140, paragraph (10) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act before amendment by the provisions of 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 remain in force pursuant to the provisions of Article 5, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of that Act, is applied by deeming the item (iv) Effective Date to be the day on which the person began the insured's maternity leave.

With regard to a person who, on the day preceding the Effective Date, does not actually hold the right to receive an employees' old-age pension under the Employees' Pension Insurance Act, or any other pension benefit or pension insurance benefit for which old age or retirement is the ground for payment, as specified by Cabinet Order, and who satisfies the requirements for payment of an employees' old-age pension or other pension insurance benefit for which old age is the ground for payment (hereinafter in this Article referred to as "employees' old-age pension, etc.") under Article 42 of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act as amended by the provisions of Article 3 or other provisions specified by Cabinet Order, the employees' old-age pension, etc. under those provisions is paid to that person on or after the Effective Date, by deeming that the person has come to satisfy the requirements for payment of the employees' old-age pension, etc. under those provisions on the Effective Date. In this case, matters necessary for the application of those provisions are specified by Cabinet Order.

The provisions of Article 37 of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act as amended by the provisions of Article 3 apply in the case where a beneficiary of the insurance benefits prescribed in paragraph (1) of that Article dies on or after the item (iv) Effective Date.

In the case where a beneficiary of the pension insurance benefits prescribed in Article 78, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 1985 National Pension Amendment Act dies on or after the item (iv) Effective Date, if there are pension insurance benefits that should have been paid to the deceased but that had not yet been paid thereto, then, with regard to a request for payment of those unpaid pension insurance benefits, notwithstanding the provisions of that paragraph, the provisions of Article 37 of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act before amendment by the provisions of Article 3 of the 1985 National Pension Amendment Act, for which the provisions then in force continue to govern pursuant to the provisions of that paragraph, do not apply, and the provisions of Article 37 of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act as amended by the provisions of Article 3 apply mutatis mutandis.

In the case where a beneficiary of the pension insurance benefits prescribed in Article 87, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 1985 National Pension Amendment Act dies on or after the item (iv) Effective Date, if there are pension insurance benefits that should have been paid to the deceased but that had not yet been paid thereto, then, with regard to a request for payment of those unpaid pension insurance benefits, notwithstanding the provisions of that paragraph, the provisions of Article 27-2 of the Mariners Insurance Act before amendment by the provisions of Article 5 of the 1985 National Pension Amendment Act, for which the provisions then in force continue to govern pursuant to the provisions of that paragraph, do not apply, and the provisions of Article 37 of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act as amended by the provisions of Article 3 apply mutatis mutandis.

The provisions of Article 44-3 of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act as amended by the provisions of Article 3 apply to a person who, on the day preceding the item (iv) Effective Date, does not fall under any of the items of paragraph (2) of that Article; provided, however, that with regard to the application of the provisions of that Article to a person who, before the item (iv) Effective Date, falls under any of the items of Article 44-3, paragraph (2) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act as amended by the provisions of Article 3, the phrase "the acquisition of the right to receive benefits," in that paragraph is deemed to be replaced with "the acquisition of the right to receive benefits, except where the provisions of the following paragraph are applied,", the phrase "that paragraph" is deemed to be replaced with "the preceding paragraph", and the phrase "in which the request is filed" in paragraph (3) of that Article is deemed to be replaced with "that includes the day on which the provisions set forth in Article 1, item (iv) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the National Pension Act, etc. to Strengthen, etc. the Financial Basis and Minimum Guarantee Function of the Public Pension System (Act No. 62 of 2012) come into effect".

With regard to disability pensions among the pension insurance benefits prescribed in Article 78, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 1985 National Pension Amendment Act, notwithstanding the provisions of that paragraph, the provisions of Article 52, paragraph (3) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act before amendment by the provisions of Article 3 of the 1985 National Pension Amendment Act, for which the provisions then in force continue to govern pursuant to the provisions of that paragraph, do not apply, and the provisions of Article 52, paragraph (3) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act as amended by the provisions of Article 3 apply mutatis mutandis.

With regard to disability pensions among the pension insurance benefits prescribed in Article 87, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 1985 National Pension Amendment Act, notwithstanding the provisions of that paragraph, the provisions of Article 45-3, paragraph (3) of the Mariners Insurance Act before amendment by the provisions of Article 5 of the 1985 National Pension Amendment Act, for which the provisions then in force continue to govern pursuant to the provisions of that paragraph, do not apply, and the provisions of Article 52, paragraph (3) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act as amended by the provisions of Article 3 apply mutatis mutandis.

The provisions of Article 9-2, paragraph (5) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act as amended by the provisions of Article 3 apply in the case where a beneficiary of the employees' old-age pension prescribed in paragraph (1) of that Article (hereinafter in this Article referred to as the "beneficiary of the employees' old-age pension") or a person who was a beneficiary of the employees' old-age pension falls under any of the items of Article 9-2, paragraph (5) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act as amended by the provisions of Article 3 on or after the item (iv) Effective Date; provided, however, that with regard to a person who was a beneficiary of the employees' old-age pension on the item (iv) Effective Date, who is not an insured, and who is able to receive the employees' disability pension, etc. prescribed in item (i) of that paragraph, the provisions of that paragraph apply by deeming that the person fell under any of the items of that paragraph on the item (iv) Effective Date. In this case, the phrase "the day prescribed in the relevant item" in that paragraph is deemed to be replaced with "the day on which the provisions set forth in Article 1, item (iv) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the National Pension Act, etc. to Strengthen, etc. the Financial Basis and Minimum Guarantee Function of the Public Pension System (Act No. 62 of 2012) come into effect".

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