①A person who has a premium-paid period or a premium exemption period and is 60 years of age or older but under 65 years of age (limited to a person who is not an insured person under the provisions of Article 5, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions, and excluding a person who may make the request for advance payment prescribed in paragraph (1) of the following Article) may, for the time being, before reaching 65 years of age, make a request to the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare for advance payment of the old-age basic pension. However, this does not apply where the person fell under the proviso to Article 26 on the day preceding the day on which that request was made.

②With respect to a person who may make a request for advance payment under the provisions of Article 7-3, paragraph (1) or Article 13-4, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act, the request under the preceding paragraph must be made at the same time as that request.

③Where the request under paragraph (1) has been made, the old-age basic pension is paid to that person, notwithstanding the provisions of Article 26, from the day on which that request was made.

④The amount of the old-age basic pension paid under the provisions of the preceding paragraph is, notwithstanding the provisions of Article 27, the amount obtained by deducting the amount specified by Cabinet Order from the amount specified in that Article.

⑤The right to receive a widow's pension is extinguished when the person entitled to receive it acquires the right to receive an old-age basic pension under the provisions of paragraph (3).

⑥The provisions of paragraph (4) apply mutatis mutandis to the amount of the additional pension in a case where a person entitled to receive an old-age basic pension under the provisions of paragraph (3) has a premium-paid period relating to premiums under the provisions of Article 87-2. In this case, the term "Article 27" in paragraph (4) is to be read as "Article 44".