Article 1Affairs to Be Carried Out by Mutual Aid Associations, etc.

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.