Order for Enforcement of the National Pension Act

一Affairs relating to the acceptance of claims for a decision on the right to receive an old-age basic pension (excluding one paid pursuant to the provisions of Article 9-2, paragraph (3) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act) in respect of a person who has only a time in one category prescribed in Article 78-22 of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act (Act No. 115 of 1954) among the employees' pension insured periods of each item prescribed in that Article (limited to a category 2 employees' pension insured period prescribed in Article 2-5, paragraph (1), item (ii) of that Act (hereinafter in this item referred to as a "category 2 employees' pension insured period"), a category 3 employees' pension insured period prescribed in item (iii) of that paragraph (hereinafter in this item referred to as a "category 3 employees' pension insured period"), or a category 4 employees' pension insured period prescribed in item (iv) of that paragraph) (in the case of a person who has only a category 2 employees' pension insured period or a category 3 employees' pension insured period, limited to a person who has, within the category 2 employees' pension insured period or the category 3 employees' pension insured period, only a period during which the person was a member (hereinafter referred to as a "member") of a single mutual aid association prescribed in Article 3, paragraph (2) of the Act (hereinafter simply referred to as a "mutual aid association") (including a person who has only a period during which the person was a member of a mutual aid association that organizes the Federation of National Public Service Personnel Mutual Aid Associations or the National Federation of Mutual Aid Associations for Municipal Personnel)), or any other person equivalent thereto specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, and the examination of the facts relating to those claims;

二Affairs relating to the acceptance of claims for a decision on the right to receive a disability basic pension for a disability resulting from an injury or illness whose date of first medical examination falls during a period when the person was a member or a participant in the private school personnel mutual aid system under the provisions of the Private School Personnel Mutual Aid Association Act (Act No. 245 of 1953) (hereinafter in this item and Article 2, paragraph (2) referred to as a "participant in the private school personnel mutual aid system") (in the case of a disability basic pension under the provisions of Article 31 of the Act, limited to one for a disability resulting from an injury or illness whose date of first medical examination relating to the later disability falls during a period when the person was a member or a participant in the private school personnel mutual aid system), a disability basic pension paid by virtue of the application of Article 29, paragraph (5) or Articles 34 through 38 of the Cabinet Order on Transitional Measures Accompanying the Enforcement of the Act Partially Amending the National Pension Act, etc. (Cabinet Order No. 54 of 1986; hereinafter referred to as the "Transitional Measures Cabinet Order"), or any other disability basic pension specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare as equivalent to these, and the examination of the facts relating to those claims; the acceptance of claims for revision of the amount of that disability basic pension; the examination of the degree of disability relating to that disability basic pension; and the examination of the facts relating to a claim for revision of the amount of that disability basic pension under the provisions of Article 34, paragraph (4) of the Act (including where applied with terms replaced pursuant to the provisions of Article 2 of the Cabinet Order on Transitional Measures Accompanying the Enforcement of the Act Partially Amending the National Pension Act, etc. (Cabinet Order No. 337 of 1989));

三Affairs relating to the acceptance of claims for a decision on the right to receive a survivors' basic pension in relation to the death of the person prescribed in item (i), and the examination of the facts relating to those claims;

四In the case where affairs relating to the payment of the basic pension paid by mutual aid associations prescribed in Article 15, paragraph (1) are to be carried out pursuant to the provisions of that paragraph, affairs relating to the acceptance of the notifications, etc. prescribed in Article 105, paragraphs (3) and (4) of the Act (limited to those relating to a person entitled to receive the basic pension paid by mutual aid associations prescribed in Article 15, paragraph (1)), and the examination of the facts relating to those notifications;

五Affairs relating to the acceptance of applications, claims, requests and notifications (limited to those specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare; hereinafter in this item referred to as "applications, etc.") under the provisions of the Act and of orders under the Act or for implementing the Act (including transitional measures upon the amendment of those laws and regulations), which are made together with the applications, etc. prescribed in Article 4-2-14, paragraph (1) of the Order for Enforcement of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act (Cabinet Order No. 110 of 1954) in respect of which the implementing body prescribed in Article 2-5, paragraph (1) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act (excluding the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare) is to carry out the affairs of acceptance and of examination of the facts pursuant to the provisions of Article 4-2-14, paragraph (1) of that Cabinet Order, and the examination of the facts relating to those applications, etc.

一Affairs relating to the acceptance of requests under the provisions of Article 5, paragraphs (1), (2) and (4) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act, Article 11, paragraphs (1), (2) and (5) 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"), Article 23, paragraphs (1), (2) and (5) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the National Pension Act, etc. (Act No. 104 of 2004; hereinafter referred to as the "2004 Amendment Act"), and Article 40, paragraphs (1), (2) and (5) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the National Pension Act, etc., and Other Matters, to Strengthen the Functions of the Pension System in Light of Socioeconomic Changes (Act No. 74 of 2025; hereinafter referred to as the "2025 Amendment Act"), and the examination of the facts relating to those requests (excluding requests under the provisions of Article 5, paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act, Article 11, paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 1994 Amendment Act, Article 23, paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 2004 Amendment Act, and Article 40, paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 2025 Amendment Act);

三Affairs relating to the acceptance of claims for a decision on the right to receive a benefit prescribed in Article 16 of the Act (limited to a decision on the right to receive any of the following benefits), and the examination of the facts relating to those claims:

イAn old-age basic pension paid to a person who has only an insured period as a category 1 insured person prescribed in Article 7, paragraph (1), item (i) of the Act (including an insured person under Article 5, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act, an insured person under Article 11, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 1994 Amendment Act, an insured person under Article 23, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 2004 Amendment Act, an insured person under Article 40, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 2025 Amendment Act, and an insured person under the Act prior to its amendment by Article 1 of the Act Partially Amending the National Pension Act, etc. (Act No. 34 of 1985; hereinafter referred to as the "1985 Amendment Act") (hereinafter referred to as the "former Act"); hereinafter referred to as a "category 1 insured person") (excluding a person who has a deemed insured period at divorce prescribed in Article 78-7 of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act) (excluding one paid pursuant to the provisions of Article 15, paragraph (1) or (2) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 1985 Amendment Act);

ロAn old-age pension under the provisions of Article 9-3 of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act;

ハA disability basic pension for a disability resulting from an injury or illness whose date of first medical examination falls during a period when the person was a category 1 insured person, or from an injury or illness whose date of first medical examination falls during a period when the person was a person prescribed in Article 30, paragraph (1), item (ii) of the Act (limited to one whose date of first medical examination is on or after April 1, 1986) (excluding one under the provisions of Article 31, paragraph (1) of the Act); a disability basic pension paid by virtue of the application of Article 29, paragraph (3) or Article 31 of the Transitional Measures Cabinet Order (excluding one under the provisions of Article 31, paragraph (1) of the Act); a disability basic pension under the provisions of Article 30-4 of the Act; and a disability basic pension under the provisions of Article 31, paragraph (1) of the Act (excluding one relating to a person who comes to hold the right to receive a disability employees' pension under the Employees' Pension Insurance Act based on the same ground for payment as that disability basic pension, or, among mutual aid pensions before the 2012 unification (meaning, collectively, a benefit that is a pension under the pre-amendment National Public Officers Mutual Aid Association Act prescribed in Article 37, 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") (hereinafter referred to as the "national public officers' mutual aid pension before the 2012 unification"), the local public officers' mutual aid pension before the 2012 unification (meaning a benefit that is a pension under the pre-amendment Local Public Officers, etc. Mutual Aid Association Act prescribed in Article 61, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 2012 Pension Unification Act; the same applies hereinafter) and the private school personnel mutual aid pension before the 2012 unification (meaning a benefit that is a pension under the pre-amendment Private School Personnel Mutual Aid Association Act prescribed in Article 79 of the Supplementary Provisions of the 2012 Pension Unification Act; the same applies hereinafter); the same applies hereinafter), a disability mutual aid pension or a disability mutual aid pension under the provisions of Article 41, paragraph (1) or Article 65, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 2012 Pension Unification Act, or relating to a person entitled to receive the disability pension prescribed in Article 43 of the Transitional Measures Cabinet Order);

ニA survivors' basic pension relating to a person who comes to hold the right to receive a survivors' basic pension under the provisions of Article 37 of the Act upon the death of a category 1 insured person (excluding one relating to a person who comes to hold the right to receive a survivors' employees' pension under the Employees' Pension Insurance Act based on the same ground for payment as that survivors' basic pension, or, among mutual aid pensions before the 2012 unification, a survivors' mutual aid pension or a survivors' mutual aid pension under the provisions of Article 41, paragraph (1) or Article 65, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 2012 Pension Unification Act);

ホA widow's pension;

ヘA death lump-sum payment;

トA special lump-sum payment paid pursuant to the provisions of Article 94, paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 1985 Amendment Act;

四Affairs relating to the acceptance of claims prescribed in Article 19, paragraph (1) of the Act (limited to those relating to the following benefits that are pensions), and the examination of the facts relating to those claims:

イA disability basic pension for a disability resulting from an injury or illness whose date of first medical examination falls during a period when the person was a category 1 insured person or a category 3 insured person prescribed in Article 7, paragraph (1), item (iii) of the Act (hereinafter referred to as a "category 3 insured person"), or from an injury or illness whose date of first medical examination falls during a period when the person was a person prescribed in Article 30, paragraph (1), item (ii) of the Act (limited to one whose date of first medical examination is on or after April 1, 1986) (excluding one under the provisions of Article 31, paragraph (1) of the Act); a disability basic pension paid by virtue of the application of Article 29, paragraph (3) or Article 31 of the Transitional Measures Cabinet Order (excluding one under the provisions of Article 31, paragraph (1) of the Act); a disability basic pension under the provisions of Article 30-4 of the Act; and a disability basic pension under the provisions of Article 31, paragraph (1) of the Act (excluding one relating to a person who comes to hold the right to receive a disability employees' pension under the Employees' Pension Insurance Act based on the same ground for payment as that disability basic pension, or, among mutual aid pensions before the 2012 unification, a disability mutual aid pension or a disability mutual aid pension under the provisions of Article 41, paragraph (1) or Article 65, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 2012 Pension Unification Act, or relating to a person entitled to receive the disability pension prescribed in Article 43 of the Transitional Measures Cabinet Order);

ロA survivors' basic pension (excluding one relating to a person who comes to hold the right to receive a survivors' employees' pension under the Employees' Pension Insurance Act based on the same ground for payment as that survivors' basic pension, or, among mutual aid pensions before the 2012 unification, a survivors' mutual aid pension or a survivors' mutual aid pension under the provisions of Article 41, paragraph (1) or Article 65, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 2012 Pension Unification Act);

ハA widow's pension;

五Affairs relating to the acceptance of applications prescribed in Article 20, paragraph (2) of the Act (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 11, paragraph (4) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 1985 Amendment Act), Article 41-2, and Article 42, paragraphs (1) and (2) (limited to those relating to a person entitled to receive a benefit that is a pension listed in (a) through (c) of the preceding item);

六Affairs relating to the acceptance of claims for revision of the amount of the disability basic pension prescribed in item (iv), (a);

七Affairs relating to the acceptance of requests prescribed in Article 87-2, paragraphs (1) and (3) of the Act, and the examination of the facts relating to those requests;

八Affairs relating to the acceptance of requests prescribed in Article 89, paragraph (2) of the Act, and the examination of the facts relating to those requests;

九Affairs relating to the acceptance of applications prescribed in Article 90, paragraphs (1) and (3) of the Act (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 90-2, paragraph (4) of the Act, Article 19, paragraph (3) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 2004 Amendment Act and Article 14, paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the National Pension Act, etc. to Improve the Operation of Government-Managed Pension Programs, etc. (Act No. 64 of 2014; hereinafter referred to as the "2014 Amendment Act")), Article 90-2, paragraphs (1) through (3) and Article 90-3, paragraph (1) of the Act, Article 19, paragraphs (1) and (2) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 2004 Amendment Act, and Article 14, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 2014 Amendment Act, and the examination of the facts relating to those applications;

十Affairs relating to the acceptance of notifications, etc. prescribed in Article 105, paragraphs (1), (3) and (4) of the Act (with respect to the notifications, etc. prescribed in paragraphs (3) and (4) of that Article, limited to those relating to a person entitled to receive a benefit that is a pension listed in item (iv), (a) through (c)), and the examination of the facts relating to those notifications;

十一Affairs relating to the acceptance of claims for a decision prescribed in Articles 16 and 83 of the former Act, and the examination of the facts relating to those claims;

十二Affairs relating to the acceptance of claims for revision of the amount of a disability pension under the former Act.

一The old-age employees' pension under the Employees' Pension Insurance Act, and the old-age pension under the Employees' Pension Insurance Act prior to its amendment by Article 3 of the 1985 Amendment Act (hereinafter referred to as the "former Employees' Pension Insurance Act");

二The old-age pension under the Mariners Insurance Act (Act No. 73 of 1939) prior to its amendment by Article 5 of the 1985 Amendment Act (hereinafter referred to as the "former Mariners Insurance Act");

三Among the national public officers' mutual aid pension before the 2012 unification, the retirement mutual aid pension (excluding one for which payment is suspended in its entirety under the provisions of Article 10, paragraph (2) of the Act for Enforcement in Relation to Long-term Benefit under the National Public Officers Mutual Aid Association Act (Act No. 129 of 1958)), and the retirement pension (excluding one for which payment is suspended in its entirety under the provisions of Article 77, paragraph (2) of the pre-1985 National Public Officers, etc. Mutual Aid Association Act) and the reduced retirement pension under the National Public Officers Mutual Aid Association Act (Act No. 128 of 1958) prior to its amendment by Article 1 of the Act Partially Amending the National Public Officers, etc. Mutual Aid Association Act, etc. (Act No. 105 of 1985; hereinafter referred to as the "1985 National Public Officers Mutual Aid Amendment Act") (hereinafter referred to as the "pre-1985 National Public Officers, etc. Mutual Aid Association Act") and under the Act for Enforcement in Relation to Long-term Benefit under the National Public Officers Mutual Aid Association Act prior to its amendment by Article 2 of the 1985 National Public Officers Mutual Aid Amendment Act (hereinafter referred to as the "former National Enforcement Act");

三の二A retirement mutual aid pension under the provisions of Article 41, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 2012 Pension Unification Act;

四Among the local public officers' mutual aid pension before the 2012 unification, the retirement mutual aid pension (excluding one for which payment is suspended in its entirety under the provisions of Article 17 of the Act for Enforcement in Relation to Long-term Benefit, etc. under the Local Public Officers, etc. Mutual Aid Association Act (Act No. 153 of 1962)), and the retirement pension (excluding one for which payment is suspended in its entirety under the provisions of Article 79, paragraph (2) of the former Local Public Officers, etc. Mutual Aid Association Act) and the reduced retirement pension under the Local Public Officers, etc. Mutual Aid Association Act (Act No. 152 of 1962; excluding Chapter XI) prior to its amendment by Article 1 of the Act Partially Amending the Local Public Officers, etc. Mutual Aid Association Act, etc. (Act No. 108 of 1985; hereinafter referred to as the "1985 Local Public Officers Mutual Aid Amendment Act") (hereinafter referred to as the "former Local Public Officers, etc. Mutual Aid Association Act") and under the Act for Enforcement in Relation to Long-term Benefit, etc. under the Local Public Officers, etc. Mutual Aid Association Act prior to its amendment by Article 2 of the 1985 Local Public Officers Mutual Aid Amendment Act (hereinafter referred to as the "former Local Enforcement Act");

四の二A retirement mutual aid pension under the provisions of Article 65, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 2012 Pension Unification Act;

五Among the private school personnel mutual aid pension before the 2012 unification, the retirement mutual aid pension (excluding one for which payment is suspended in its entirety under the provisions of paragraph (15) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the Private School Personnel Mutual Aid Association Act, etc. (Act No. 140 of 1961)), and the retirement pension (excluding one for which payment is suspended in its entirety under the provisions of Article 77, paragraph (2) of the pre-1985 National Public Officers, etc. Mutual Aid Association Act as applied mutatis mutandis in Article 25, paragraph (1) of the pre-1985 Private School Personnel Mutual Aid Association Act) and the reduced retirement pension under the Private School Personnel Mutual Aid Association Act (Act No. 245 of 1953) prior to its amendment by Article 1 of the Act Partially Amending the Private School Personnel Mutual Aid Association Act, etc. (Act No. 106 of 1985) (hereinafter referred to as the "pre-1985 Private School Personnel Mutual Aid Association Act");

六Among the transitional agricultural, forestry and fishery mutual aid pension (meaning the transitional agricultural, forestry and fishery mutual aid pension prescribed in Article 16, paragraph (4) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act for Abolishing the Mutual Aid Association Act for Employees of Agricultural, Forestry and Fishery Organizations, etc. to Integrate the Employees' Pension Insurance System and the Mutual Aid Association System for Employees of Agricultural, Forestry and Fishery Organizations (Act No. 101 of 2001; hereinafter referred to as the "2001 Integration Act"); the same applies in Article 6-5, paragraph (1), item (ii)), the retirement mutual aid pension, and among the transitional agricultural, forestry and fishery pension (meaning the transitional agricultural, forestry and fishery pension prescribed in Article 16, paragraph (6) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 2001 Integration Act; the same applies in Article 4-8, paragraph (2), item (vii) and Article 6-5, paragraph (2), item (viii)), the retirement pension (excluding one for which payment is suspended in its entirety under the provisions of the proviso to Article 36, paragraph (1) of the old-system agricultural, forestry and fishery mutual aid law (meaning the old-system agricultural, forestry and fishery mutual aid law prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (1), item (v) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 2001 Integration Act; the same applies in Article 6-5, paragraph (2), item (viii))) and the reduced retirement pension;

七A benefit under the Public Officers Pension Act (Act No. 48 of 1923; including where applied mutatis mutandis in other Acts) whose ground for payment is retirement;

八A benefit that is a pension under a Prefectural or Municipal Ordinance concerning retirement pensions of local public officers, whose ground for payment is retirement (excluding one for which payment is suspended in its entirety on the ground of age);

九A benefit that is a pension under the provisions of Article 13 of the Supplementary Provisions of the Court Enforcement Officer Act (Act No. 111 of 1966) prior to its amendment by the Act Partially Amending the Court Enforcement Officer Act (Act No. 18 of 2007) (hereinafter referred to as the "former Court Enforcement Officer Act"), whose ground for payment is retirement (excluding one for which payment is suspended in its entirety on the ground of age);

十The ordinary retirement pension under Article 7, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act to Abolish the Diet Members' Mutual Aid Pension Act (Act No. 1 of 2006; hereinafter in this item, Article 4-8, paragraph (1), item (vi) and Article 6-5, paragraph (1), item (xi) referred to as the "Diet Members' Mutual Aid Pension Abolition Act") (excluding one for which payment is suspended under the provisions of Article 15, paragraph (1) of the Diet Members' Mutual Aid Pension Act (Act No. 70 of 1958) prior to its abolition by the Diet Members' Mutual Aid Pension Abolition Act, which is to be followed pursuant to the provisions of Article 7, paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Diet Members' Mutual Aid Pension Abolition Act), and the ordinary retirement pension under Article 9, paragraph (1) of the former Diet members' mutual aid pension law (meaning the Diet Members' Mutual Aid Pension Act prior to its abolition by the Diet Members' Mutual Aid Pension Abolition Act, which remains in force pursuant to the provisions of Article 2, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Diet Members' Mutual Aid Pension Abolition Act; the same applies in this item, Article 4-8, paragraph (1), item (vi) and Article 6-5, paragraph (1), item (xi)) (excluding one for which payment is suspended under the provisions of Article 15, paragraph (1) of the former Diet members' mutual aid pension law);

十一The former retirement pension under Article 2 of the Supplementary Provisions of the 2011 Local Public Officers Mutual Aid Amendment Act, paid by the surviving mutual aid society prescribed in Article 23, paragraph (1), item (iii) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the Local Public Officers, etc. Mutual Aid Association Act (Act No. 56 of 2011; hereinafter in this item and Article 6-5, paragraph (1), item (xii) referred to as the "2011 Local Public Officers Mutual Aid Amendment Act") (referred to as the "surviving mutual aid society" in Article 4-8, paragraph (1), item (vii) and Article 6-5, paragraph (1), item (xii)) (excluding one for which payment is suspended under the provisions of Article 164, paragraph (1) of the Local Public Officers, etc. Mutual Aid Association Act prior to its amendment by the 2011 Local Public Officers Mutual Aid Amendment Act, as the provisions then in force continue to govern pursuant to the provisions of Article 2 of the Supplementary Provisions of the 2011 Local Public Officers Mutual Aid Amendment Act), and the special retirement pension under Article 12, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 2011 Local Public Officers Mutual Aid Amendment Act (excluding one for which payment is suspended under the provisions of Article 164, paragraph (1) of the Local Public Officers, etc. Mutual Aid Association Act prior to its amendment by the 2011 Local Public Officers Mutual Aid Amendment Act, as the provisions then in force continue to govern pursuant to the provisions of Article 2 of the Supplementary Provisions of the 2011 Local Public Officers Mutual Aid Amendment Act, which is to be followed pursuant to the provisions of Article 12, paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 2011 Local Public Officers Mutual Aid Amendment Act).