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).

一The main clause of Article 20, paragraph (2) and paragraph (3) of the Act as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 11, paragraph (4) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 1985 Amendment Act;

二The main clause of Article 38, paragraph (2) and paragraph (3) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 56, paragraph (3) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 1985 Amendment Act).

一Appended Table 1, items (i) and (iii) of the Industrial Accident Compensation Insurance Act (Act No. 50 of 1947);

二The proviso to Article 44, paragraph (1) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act;

三Article 11, paragraph (1), item (i), Article 12, Article 13, Article 13-2, paragraphs (1) and (4), Article 13-3, paragraphs (1) and (4), and Article 13-4, paragraphs (1) and (4) of the Act for Enforcement in Relation to Long-term Benefit under the National Public Officers Mutual Aid Association Act;

四The proviso to Article 49, paragraph (1) and the proviso to Article 52-2, paragraph (1) of the Act;

五The proviso to Article 13-2, paragraph (1), item (i), the proviso to Article 13-2, paragraph (2), item (i) and Article 13-2, paragraph (3) of the Child Rearing Allowance Act (Act No. 238 of 1961);

六Article 13, paragraph (1), item (i), Article 13-2, paragraphs (1) and (4), Article 22, Article 22-2, paragraphs (1) and (4), Article 27, and Article 27-2, paragraphs (1) and (4) of the Act for Enforcement in Relation to Long-term Benefit, etc. under the Local Public Officers, etc. Mutual Aid Association Act;

七The proviso to Article 3, paragraph (3), item (ii) and the proviso to Article 17, item (i) of the Act on Special Child Rearing Allowance (Act No. 134 of 1964);

八Article 8, paragraphs (1) and (2) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the National Public Officers' Accident Compensation Act (Act No. 67 of 1966);

九Article 8, paragraphs (1) and (2) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Local Public Officers Accident Compensation Act (Act No. 121 of 1967);

十Article 14-2, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the Public Officers Pension Act, etc. (Act No. 51 of 1976);

十一The proviso to Article 73, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 1985 Amendment Act;

十二Article 20, paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 1985 National Public Officers Mutual Aid Amendment Act (including where it is to be followed pursuant to the provisions of Article 48-2 of the Private School Personnel Mutual Aid Association Act), Article 21, paragraph (1) of those Supplementary Provisions (including where it is to be followed pursuant to the provisions of Article 48-2 of the Private School Personnel Mutual Aid Association Act), and paragraphs (2) and (5) of that Article, and Article 30, paragraph (2) of those Supplementary Provisions (including where it is to be followed pursuant to the provisions of Article 48-2 of the Private School Personnel Mutual Aid Association Act);

十三Article 26 of the Supplementary Provisions of the abolished 1985 Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Mutual Aid Amendment Act (meaning the abolished 1985 Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Mutual Aid Amendment Act prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (1), item (iii) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 2001 Integration Act), which remains in force pursuant to the provisions of Article 16, paragraphs (1) and (2) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 2001 Integration Act;

十四Article 20, paragraph (2), Article 21, paragraphs (1), (2) and (5), and Article 31, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 1985 Local Public Officers Mutual Aid Amendment Act;

十五The proviso to Article 16 of the Act on Provision of Special Disability Benefit to Specified Persons with Disabilities (Act No. 166 of 2004);

十六The proviso to Article 38 of the Order for Enforcement of the Health Insurance Act (Imperial Ordinance No. 243 of 1926) (limited to the portion relating to item (i) of that Article);

十七The proviso to Article 5 of the Order for Enforcement of the Mariners Insurance Act (Cabinet Order No. 240 of 1953) (limited to the portion relating to item (i) of that Article), and Articles 14, 15 and 16 of that Cabinet Order;

十八The proviso to Article 3-7 of the Order for Enforcement of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act (limited to the portion relating to item (i)-2 of that Article);

十九Article 3, paragraphs (1), (2), (4) and (5) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Cabinet Order Establishing Standards for Compensation for Damages for Part-time Fire Brigade Members, etc. (Cabinet Order No. 335 of 1956);

二十Article 3 of the Supplementary Provisions of the Cabinet Order Establishing Standards for Compensation for Official Duty Accidents of School Physicians, School Dentists and School Pharmacists of Public Schools (Cabinet Order No. 283 of 1957);

二十一Article 11-3-9, paragraph (2) of the Order for Enforcement of the National Public Officers Mutual Aid Association Act (Cabinet Order No. 207 of 1958) (limited to the portion relating to item (i) of that paragraph (including where applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 6 of the Order for Enforcement of the Private School Personnel Mutual Aid Association Act (Cabinet Order No. 425 of 1953)));

二十二Article 23-6, paragraph (2) of the Order for Enforcement of the Local Public Officers, etc. Mutual Aid Association Act (Cabinet Order No. 352 of 1962) (limited to the portion relating to item (i) of that paragraph);

二十三The proviso to Article 28 of the Transitional Measures Cabinet Order (limited to the portion relating to item (i) of that Article);

二十四Article 21, paragraph (1) of the Cabinet Order on Transitional Measures Accompanying the Enforcement of the Act Partially Amending the National Public Officers, etc. Mutual Aid Association Act, etc. (Cabinet Order No. 56 of 1986) (including where it is to be followed pursuant to the provisions of Article 48-2 of the Private School Personnel Mutual Aid Association Act);

二十五Article 25, paragraph (1), Article 25-2, paragraphs (1) and (4), and Article 31-2, paragraphs (1) and (4) of the Cabinet Order on Transitional Measures Accompanying the Enforcement of the Act Partially Amending the Local Public Officers, etc. Mutual Aid Association Act, etc. (Cabinet Order No. 58 of 1986);

二十六Article 2, paragraph (7) of the Cabinet Order on Revision of the Amount of Pensions under the Provisions of the Act on Special Measures concerning Beneficiaries of Pension of Mutual Aid Association Established under Former Ordinances, etc. on or after October 2007 (Cabinet Order No. 241 of 2000) (limited to the portion relating to item (iii) of that paragraph);

二十七Article 3, paragraph (3) of the Cabinet Order on Revision of the Amount of Pensions, etc. under the Provisions of the pre-1985 Private School Personnel Mutual Aid Association Act on or after October 2007 (Cabinet Order No. 341 of 2000) (limited to the portion relating to item (ii) of that paragraph);

二十八Article 19, paragraph (1), item (i), and paragraphs (2) and (3) of the Cabinet Order on Transitional Measures concerning Transitional Agricultural, Forestry and Fishery Mutual Aid Pensions, etc. Accompanying the Enforcement 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 (Cabinet Order No. 44 of 2002).

一The total of the number of category 1 insured persons (excluding insured persons under the former Act) on the last day of each month of each fiscal year;

二The total of the number of insured persons under the Employees' Pension Insurance Act on the last day of each month of each fiscal year;

三The total of the number of category 3 insured persons on the last day of each month of each fiscal year.

一A benefit that is a pension under the Public Officers Pension Act (including where applied mutatis mutandis in other Acts);

二A benefit that is a pension under a Prefectural or Municipal Ordinance concerning retirement pensions of local public officers;

三A benefit that is a pension paid by a mutual aid association prescribed in Article 28 of the Supplementary Provisions of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act;

四A benefit that is a pension under the provisions of Article 13 of the Supplementary Provisions of the former Court Enforcement Officer Act;

五A benefit that is a pension paid by the Federation of National Public Service Personnel Mutual Aid Associations on the basis of the Act on Special Measures concerning Beneficiaries of Pension of Mutual Aid Association Established under Former Ordinances (Act No. 256 of 1950);

六The ordinary retirement pension under Article 7, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Diet Members' Mutual Aid Pension Abolition Act, the official duty injury and illness pension under Article 11, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Diet Members' Mutual Aid Pension Abolition Act, and the survivors' assistance pension under Article 12, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Diet Members' Mutual Aid Pension Abolition Act, and the mutual aid pension under Article 2, paragraph (1) of the former Diet members' mutual aid pension law;

七A benefit that is a pension paid by a surviving mutual aid society;

八A benefit that is a pension under the Act on Relief of War Victims and Survivors (Act No. 127 of 1952; hereinafter referred to as the "War Victims Relief Act");

九The allowance for families of unrepatriated persons under the Act on Aid to Families and Others Related to Unrepatriated Persons (Act No. 161 of 1953) (including the allowance prescribed in paragraph (45) of the Supplementary Provisions of that Act);

十An insurance benefit that is a pension under the Industrial Accident Compensation Insurance Act;

十一An insurance benefit that is a pension under the Mariners Insurance Act (excluding an insurance benefit that is a pension under the former Mariners Insurance Act);

十二Compensation that is a pension under the National Public Officers' Accident Compensation Act (Act No. 191 of 1951; including as applied mutatis mutandis under other Acts);

十三Compensation that is a pension under the provisions of the Local Public Officers Accident Compensation Act and of Prefectural or Municipal Ordinances based on that Act;

十四Compensation that is a pension under the provisions of Prefectural or Municipal Ordinances based on the Act on Occupational Accident Compensation for Public School Physicians, Dentists, and Pharmacists (Act No. 143 of 1957).

一A benefit that is a pension listed in the items of the preceding paragraph;

二An insurance benefit that is a pension under the former Employees' Pension Insurance Act;

三An insurance benefit that is a pension under the former Mariners Insurance Act;

四A benefit that is a pension under the pre-1985 National Public Officers, etc. Mutual Aid Association Act and the former National Enforcement Act;

五A benefit that is a pension under the former Local Public Officers, etc. Mutual Aid Association Act and the former Local Enforcement Act;

六A benefit that is a pension under the pre-1985 Private School Personnel Mutual Aid Association Act;

七A transitional agricultural, forestry and fishery pension.

一When an addition or supplement is made to the pension benefit, the amount is the amount after that addition or supplement;

二When two or more persons are able to jointly receive the same pension benefit, the amount is the amount obtained by dividing the amount of that benefit by the number of persons entitled to receive it;

三When the amount of the pension benefit is determined on a monthly basis, the amount is the amount obtained by multiplying that amount by 12;

四When the same person is able to receive two or more pension benefits, the amount is the total of the amounts of those two or more benefits.

一An injury and illness pension paid pursuant to Article 3 or Article 22, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the Public Officers Pension Act (Act No. 155 of 1953; hereinafter referred to as "Act No. 155"), and a special injury and illness pension paid pursuant to Article 13, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the Public Officers Pension Act, etc. (Act No. 81 of 1971; hereinafter referred to as "Act No. 81");

二The family pension prescribed in Article 35-3 of the Supplementary Provisions of Act No. 155 and the family pension prescribed in Article 3, paragraph (2) of the Act on Special Provisions concerning Public Officers Pension, etc. Payable to Surviving Families of Former Military Personnel and Other Persons (Act No. 177 of 1956);

三A disability pension under the War Victims Relief Act;

四A pension for surviving family under the War Victims Relief Act, a pension for surviving family paid pursuant to paragraph (20) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the Act on Relief of War Victims and Survivors (Act No. 181 of 1953; hereinafter referred to as "Act No. 181"), paragraph (11) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the Act on Relief of War Victims and Survivors (Act No. 144 of 1955; hereinafter referred to as "Act No. 144"), Article 5, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the Act on Relief of War Victims and Survivors, etc. (Act No. 27 of 1970; hereinafter referred to as "Act No. 27"), or Article 7, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the Act on Relief of War Victims and Survivors, etc. (Act No. 51 of 1971; hereinafter referred to as "Act No. 51"), and a survivors' allowance under the War Victims Relief Act;

五Among benefits that are pensions paid by the Federation of National Public Service Personnel, etc. Mutual Aid Associations based on the Act on Special Measures concerning Beneficiaries of Pension of Mutual Aid Association Established under Former Ordinances, those for which the ground for payment is disability or death due to official duty;

六Among benefits that are pensions paid by the Federation of National Public Service Personnel Mutual Aid Associations or that are pensions which the government as the implementer of Employees' Pension Insurance is to pay pursuant to Article 16, paragraph (3) 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"), those for which the ground for payment is disability or death due to official duty.

一For a person who has received the deduction prescribed in Article 34, paragraph (1), items (i) through (iv), item (x)-2 or item (xii) of the Local Tax Act with respect to the prefectural inhabitant tax for the relevant fiscal year, the amount equivalent to the amount of the casualty loss deduction, medical expense deduction, social insurance premium deduction, deduction for small enterprise-based mutual aid premiums and similar payments, special spousal deduction or special deduction for specified relatives;

二For a person who has received the deduction prescribed in Article 34, paragraph (1), item (vi) of the Local Tax Act with respect to the prefectural inhabitant tax for the relevant fiscal year, 270,000 yen for each person with a disability who was the subject of that deduction (excluding a person entitled to receive a disability basic pension under the provisions of Article 30-4 of the Act (excluding one whose payment is suspended in its entirety)) (400,000 yen where that person with a disability is a person with a particular disability prescribed in that item); for a person who has received the deduction prescribed in item (viii) of that paragraph, 270,000 yen for that person; for a person who has received the deduction prescribed in item (viii)-2 of that paragraph, 350,000 yen for that person; and for a person who has received the deduction prescribed in item (ix) of that paragraph, 270,000 yen for that person;

三For a person who has received the exemption prescribed in Article 6, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Local Tax Act with respect to the prefectural inhabitant tax for the relevant fiscal year, the amount of income relating to that exemption.

一The Administrative Vice-Minister, the Deputy Minister for Health, Labour and Welfare, the Director-General of the Minister's Secretariat, the Senior Deputy Director-General prescribed in Article 18, paragraph (2) of the Order on the Organization of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (Cabinet Order No. 252 of 2000) (limited to a person specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare), the Deputy Director-General prescribed in paragraph (10) of that Article (limited to a person specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare), the Director of the General Affairs Division of the Minister's Secretariat, the Director-General of the Pension Bureau, and the Director of the General Affairs Division, the Director of the Fund Management Division and the Director of the Actuarial Affairs Division of the Pension Bureau;

二In addition to the persons listed in the preceding item, an employee engaged in the administrative affairs relating to the investment of the reserve fund prescribed in Article 75 of the Act who is designated by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare.

一A disability employees' pension under the Employees' Pension Insurance Act, 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 (limited to one paid to a person whose degree of disability falls under the state of disability provided for in Article 4-6);

二Among transitional agricultural, forestry and fishery mutual aid pensions, a disability mutual aid pension (referred to as the "transitional disability mutual aid pension" in paragraph (2), item (i), (c)) whose degree of disability falls under the state of disability provided for in Article 4-6;

三A disability pension under the former Act;

四A disability pension under the former Employees' Pension Insurance Act;

五A disability pension under the former Mariners Insurance Act;

六A disability pension paid by a mutual aid association or the Promotion and Mutual Aid Corporation for Private Schools of Japan (including one that is to be paid by the government as the implementer of Employees' Pension Insurance pursuant to the provisions of Article 16, paragraph (3) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 1996 Amendment Act or Article 16, paragraph (3) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 2001 Integration Act);

七Among benefits that are pensions under the Public Officers Pension Act (including where applied mutatis mutandis in other Acts), those whose ground for payment is disability;

八Among benefits that are pensions under a Prefectural or Municipal Ordinance concerning retirement pensions of local public officers, those whose ground for payment is disability;

九Among benefits that are pensions under the provisions of Article 13 of the Supplementary Provisions of the former Court Enforcement Officer Act, those whose ground for payment is disability;

十Among benefits that are pensions paid by the Federation of National Public Service Personnel Mutual Aid Associations under the Act on Special Measures concerning Beneficiaries of Pension of Mutual Aid Association Established under Former Ordinances, those whose ground for payment is disability;

十一The official duty injury and illness pension under Article 11, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Diet Members' Mutual Aid Pension Abolition Act and the official duty injury and illness pension under Article 10, paragraph (1) of the former Diet members' mutual aid pension law;

十二The former official duty injury and illness pension under Article 8 of the Supplementary Provisions of the 2011 Local Public Officers Mutual Aid Amendment Act and the special official duty injury and illness pension under Article 17, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 2011 Local Public Officers Mutual Aid Amendment Act, paid by a surviving mutual aid society;

十三A disability pension under the War Victims Relief Act.

一A person entitled to receive any of the following benefits for whom three years have passed, counting from the day on which the person last ceased to be in a state of disability falling under the disability grade prescribed in Article 47, paragraph (2) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act (hereinafter in this item referred to as "state of disability"), without falling under a state of disability (limited to a person who is not currently in a state of disability):

イDisability basic pension;

ロA disability employees' pension under the Employees' Pension Insurance Act, 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;

ハTransitional disability mutual aid pension;

二A person entitled to receive a disability pension under the former Act for whom three years have passed, counting from the day on which the person last ceased to be in a state of disability of the degree provided in the Appended Table of the former Act (hereinafter in this item referred to as "state of disability"), without falling under a state of disability (limited to a person who is not currently in a state of disability);

三A person entitled to receive a disability pension under the former Employees' Pension Insurance Act for whom three years have passed, counting from the day on which the person last ceased to be in a state of disability of the degree provided in Appended Table 1 of the former Employees' Pension Insurance Act (hereinafter in this item referred to as "state of disability"), without falling under a state of disability (limited to a person who is not currently in a state of disability);

四A person entitled to receive a disability pension under the former Mariners Insurance Act for whom three years have passed, counting from the day on which the person last ceased to be in a state of disability of the degree for receiving that disability pension (hereinafter in this item referred to as "state of disability"), without falling under a state of disability (limited to a person who is not currently in a state of disability);

五A person entitled to receive a disability pension paid by a National Public Servants Mutual Aid Association (including one that is to be paid by the government as the implementer of Employees' Pension Insurance pursuant to the provisions of Article 16, paragraph (3) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 1996 Amendment Act) for whom three years have passed, counting from the day on which the person last ceased to be in a state of disability of the degree listed in the upper column of Appended Table 3 of the pre-1985 National Public Officers, etc. Mutual Aid Association Act (hereinafter in this item referred to as "state of disability"), without falling under a state of disability (limited to a person who is not currently in a state of disability);

六A person entitled to receive a disability pension paid by a local public officers, etc. mutual aid association (excluding a disability pension under the mutual aid act prescribed in Article 2, item (xvi) of the former Local Enforcement Act, paid pursuant to the provisions of Article 3 of the former Local Enforcement Act) for whom three years have passed, counting from the day on which the person last ceased to be in a state of disability of the degree listed in the upper column of Appended Table 3 of the former Local Public Officers, etc. Mutual Aid Association Act (hereinafter in this item referred to as "state of disability"), without falling under a state of disability (limited to a person who is not currently in a state of disability);

七A person entitled to receive a disability pension paid by the Promotion and Mutual Aid Corporation for Private Schools of Japan for whom three years have passed, counting from the day on which the person last ceased to be in a state of disability of the degree listed in the upper column of Appended Table 3 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 (hereinafter in this item referred to as "state of disability"), without falling under a state of disability (limited to a person who is not currently in a state of disability);

八A person entitled to receive a disability pension among transitional agricultural, forestry and fishery pensions for whom three years have passed, counting from the day on which the person last ceased to be in a state of disability of the degree listed in the upper column of Appended Table 2 of the old-system agricultural, forestry and fishery mutual aid law (hereinafter in this item referred to as "state of disability"), without falling under a state of disability (limited to a person who is not currently in a state of disability).

一A pupil enrolled in a junior high school prescribed in Article 45 of the School Education Act (Act No. 26 of 1947) (limited to one that gives classes at night or at other special times);

二A pupil enrolled in a high school prescribed in Article 50 of the School Education Act;

三A pupil enrolled in a secondary education school prescribed in Article 63 of the School Education Act;

四A pupil enrolled in a special needs education school prescribed in Article 72 of the School Education Act (limited to the high school course prescribed in Article 76, paragraph (2) of that Act);

五A student enrolled in a university prescribed in Article 83 of the School Education Act (including a graduate school prescribed in Article 97 of that Act);

六A student enrolled in a junior college prescribed in Article 108, paragraph (2) of the School Education Act;

七A student enrolled in a college of technology prescribed in Article 115 of the School Education Act;

八A pupil or student enrolled in a specialized training college prescribed in Article 124 of the School Education Act;

九A pupil enrolled in a miscellaneous school prescribed in Article 134, paragraph (1) of the School Education Act (limited to one who is taking a course whose period of study is one year or more);

十A pupil or student enrolled in an educational institution specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare as equivalent to the educational institutions prescribed in the preceding items.

一for a person who received a deduction prescribed in Article 314-2, paragraph (1), items (i) through (iv), item (x)-2, or item (xii) of the Local Tax Act for the municipal inhabitant tax for the relevant fiscal year, the amount equivalent to the amount of the casualty loss deduction, the amount of the medical expense deduction, the amount of the social insurance premium deduction, the amount of the deduction for small enterprise-based mutual aid premiums and similar payments, the amount of the special spousal deduction, or the amount of the special deduction for a specified relative;

二for a person who received a deduction prescribed in Article 314-2, paragraph (1), item (vi) of the Local Tax Act for the municipal inhabitant tax for the relevant fiscal year, 270,000 yen for each person with a disability who was the subject of the deduction (or 400,000 yen where that person with a disability is a person with a particular disability prescribed in that item); for a person who received a deduction prescribed in item (viii) of that paragraph, 270,000 yen for that person who received the deduction; for a person who received a deduction prescribed in item (viii)-2 of that paragraph, 350,000 yen for that person who received the deduction; and for a person who received a deduction prescribed in item (ix) of that paragraph, 270,000 yen for that person who received the deduction;

三for a person who received the exemption prescribed in Article 6, paragraph (4) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Local Tax Act for the municipal inhabitant tax for the relevant fiscal year, the amount of income relating to that exemption.

一having the financial basis sufficient to properly and reliably carry out, as a designated proxy payer (meaning a designated proxy payer prescribed in Article 92-2-2, paragraph (1) of the Act), the services of advancing and paying the premium of an insured person prescribed in that paragraph (hereinafter in this Article referred to as "advance payment services");

二having, in light of its personnel structure and other factors, the knowledge and experience sufficient to properly and reliably carry out the advance payment services, and having sufficient public trust; and

三having taken the necessary measures to ensure that the amount equivalent to the price of goods or rights or the consideration for services that an insured person comes to pay by presenting or notifying a credit card, etc. (meaning a card or other object, or a number, symbol or other code, by presenting or notifying which a person can purchase goods or rights from a specific seller or receive the provision of services for a fee from a person engaged in the business of providing specific services) to purchase goods or rights or receive the provision of services does not exceed the insured person's ability to pay.

一it is found that carrying out premium payment services (meaning the premium payment services prescribed in Article 92-3, paragraph (1) of the Act) as a payment agent (meaning a payment agent prescribed in Article 92-4, paragraph (1) of the Act) will contribute to ensuring the collection of premiums and to improving the convenience of insured persons.

二meeting the standards specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare as those for having a financial and technical basis sufficient to properly and reliably carry out premium payment services.

一in the case where the person comes to fall under any of the following, the unelapsed period

イwhere the person loses status as an insured person;

ロwhere the person becomes a category 2 insured person prescribed in Article 7, paragraph (1), item (ii) of the Act (hereinafter referred to as a "category 2 insured person") or a category 3 insured person;

二in the case where the person comes to fall under any of the following, the period relating to the premiums that are no longer required to be paid

イwhere all or part of the premium for the period relating to the advance payment has become not required to be paid pursuant to Article 88-2, or Article 88-3, paragraph (1) or (2) of the Act;

ロwhere all or part of the premium for the period relating to the advance payment has become not required to be paid pursuant to Article 89, paragraph (1), Article 90, paragraph (1), Article 90-2, paragraphs (1) through (3), or Article 90-3, paragraph (1) of the Act, Article 19, paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 2004 Amendment Act, or Article 14, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 2014 Amendment Act.

一a deposit account or savings account relating to the approval under Article 92-2 of the Act; and

二a deposit and savings account prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (6) of the Act on the Registration, etc. of Deposit and Savings Accounts for the Prompt and Reliable Provision of Public Benefits, etc. (Act No. 38 of 2021) that relates to the registration under Article 3, paragraph (1) of that Act.

一The number obtained by multiplying the total of the numbers of category 2 insured persons relating to the relevant government and implementing body on the last day of each month of the relevant fiscal year by the ratio, to the number of category 2 insured persons relating to the relevant government and implementing body on the last day of September of the relevant fiscal year, of the number of category 2 insured persons relating to the relevant government and implementing body on that same day who are persons prescribed in the following Article;

二The number obtained by multiplying the number obtained by subtracting the total number of months of periods that became inconsistent periods prescribed in Article 9-4-2, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act in the relevant fiscal year from the sum of the total of the numbers of category 3 insured persons on the last day of each month of the relevant fiscal year and the total number of months of the insured periods as a category 3 insured person relating to the notifications (excluding those relating to a period on or after the day on which the notification was made, and those relating to a period that was made not to be counted as a premium-paid period under Article 7-3, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act (excluding a period that was made to be counted as a premium-paid period under paragraph (3) of that Article and Article 21, paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 2004 Amendment Act)) of persons for whom, in the relevant fiscal year, a notification under Article 12, paragraphs (5) through (8) of the Act, a notification under Article 7-3, paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act, or a notification under Article 21, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 2004 Amendment Act concerning having become a category 3 insured person was made, by the rate obtained by dividing the number of persons who are category 3 insured persons among the insured persons relating to the relevant government and implementing body on the last day of September of the relevant fiscal year by the number of category 3 insured persons on the same day;

三The number obtained by combining the total of the numbers listed in the preceding two items calculated for each government and implementing body, the total number of months of premium-paid periods relating to premiums paid in the relevant fiscal year by category 1 insured persons or persons who were category 1 insured persons, the number of months equivalent to three-quarters of the total number of months of one-quarter premium exemption periods, the number of months equivalent to one-half of the total number of months of half premium exemption periods, and the number of months equivalent to one-quarter of the total number of months of three-quarter premium exemption periods, and the total number of months of premium-paid periods relating to premiums that have been made not required to be paid under Article 88-2 or Article 88-3, paragraph (1) or (2) of the Act.

一In a case where the sum of the amounts of the basic pension contributions paid by a mutual aid association, etc. as an implementing body under paragraph (1) or paragraph (4) of the preceding Article is less than the amount of the basic pension contribution for the relevant fiscal year calculated under Article 94-3, paragraph (1) of the Act, and the amount obtained by deducting the adjustment amount from the shortfall is below zero: the amount obtained by deducting the shortfall from the adjustment amount;

二When the sum of the amounts of the basic pension contributions paid by a mutual aid association, etc. as an implementing body under paragraph (1) or paragraph (4) of the preceding Article exceeds the amount of the basic pension contribution for the relevant fiscal year calculated under Article 94-3, paragraph (1) of the Act: the amount obtained by adding the adjustment amount to the excess.