①Payment of the full amount of a pension benefit (excluding a pension benefit whose payment is suspended in full under another provision of this Act or a provision of other laws and regulations) is suspended upon the request of the person entitled to receive it. However, if payment of part of the amount is suspended under another provision of this Act or a provision of other laws and regulations, payment of the amount of the part not suspended is suspended.

②With respect to a pension benefit whose payment of part of its amount is suspended as referred to in the proviso to the preceding paragraph, when the suspension of payment under another provision of this Act or a provision of other laws and regulations is lifted, payment of the full amount of the pension benefit referred to in the main clause of the preceding paragraph is suspended.

③The request under paragraph (1) may be withdrawn at any time, with effect for the future.

④A pension benefit whose payment is suspended under the provisions of paragraph (1) or paragraph (2) is, for the purposes of applying a provision of laws and regulations specified by Cabinet Order, deemed not to have had its payment suspended.

⑤The method of the suspension of payment under the provisions of paragraph (1), and other matters necessary for applying the provisions of the preceding paragraphs, are specified by Cabinet Order.