①The provisions of Article 31, paragraph (1) and Article 32, paragraph (1) of the new National Pension Act apply mutatis mutandis where grounds for paying a further disability basic pension arise with respect to a person who is able to receive payment of a disability pension under the former National Pension Act whose ground for payment arose before the Effective Date, a disability pension under the former Employees' Pension Insurance Act whose ground for payment arose before the Effective Date, or a disability pension paid by a mutual aid association or the Promotion and Mutual Aid Corporation for Private Schools of Japan that is specified by Cabinet Order as equivalent to a disability basic pension (excluding where the grounds for payment arise pursuant to the provisions of the preceding Article). The same applies where grounds for paying a further disability basic pension pursuant to the provisions of that Article arise with respect to a person who is able to receive a disability pension under the former National Pension Act (excluding a disability welfare pension) whose ground for payment arose before the Effective Date.

②When grounds for paying a further disability basic pension arise with respect to a person entitled to receive a disability basic pension paid pursuant to the provisions of the preceding Article, the provisions of Article 31, paragraph (2) and Article 32, paragraph (2) of the new National Pension Act do not apply.

Necessary transitional measures concerning the payment of a survivors' basic pension in the case where, among persons born on or before April 1, 1926, a person who has the right to receive a disability pension under the former Employees' Pension Insurance Act or a disability pension paid by a mutual aid association or the Promotion and Mutual Aid Corporation for Private Schools of Japan, a person who, after losing status as an insured person of Employees' Pension Insurance, died before the day on which five years elapse from the date of first medical examination because of an injury or illness whose date of first medical examination fell while the person was an insured person of Employees' Pension Insurance, a person entitled to receive an old-age pension or an aggregated old-age pension under the former Employees' Pension Insurance Act for which the period obtained by combining the former premium-paid period, the former premium exemption period and the periods for aggregation is 25 years or more, or any other such pension specified by Cabinet Order, or a retirement pension, a reduced retirement pension or an aggregated retirement pension paid by a mutual aid association or the Promotion and Mutual Aid Corporation for Private Schools of Japan for which the period obtained by combining the former premium-paid period, the former premium exemption period and the periods for aggregation is 25 years or more, or any other such pension specified by Cabinet Order (including these benefits paid as a pension that the government, as the implementer of Employees' Pension Insurance, is to pay pursuant to the provisions of Article 16, paragraph (3) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 1996 Amendment Act and Article 16, paragraph (3) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 2001 Integration Act), or any other person specified by Cabinet Order, dies on or after the Effective Date are specified by Cabinet Order.

①A person who has the right to receive a mother-and-child welfare pension or a quasi-mother-and-child welfare pension under the former National Pension Act on the day before the Effective Date is deemed to fall under Article 37 of the new National Pension Act, and the survivors' basic pension under that Article is paid to that person.

②When a person who has the right to receive a mother-and-child welfare pension or a quasi-mother-and-child welfare pension under the former National Pension Act acquires the right to receive a survivors' basic pension under Article 37 of the new National Pension Act pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the right to receive that mother-and-child welfare pension and quasi-mother-and-child welfare pension is extinguished. In this case, payment of that mother-and-child welfare pension and quasi-mother-and-child welfare pension is to end with the month preceding the month in which the day on which that right was extinguished falls.

③Payment of a survivors' basic pension under the provisions of paragraph (1) is, notwithstanding the provisions of Article 18, paragraph (1) of the new National Pension Act, to begin from the month in which the Effective Date falls.

④A survivors' basic pension under the provisions of paragraph (1) for April 1986 is, notwithstanding the provisions of the main clause of Article 18, paragraph (3) of the new National Pension Act, to be paid in August of that year.

⑤For the purposes of applying the provisions of Article 39 of the National Pension Act in the case referred to in paragraph (1), a person who had the right to receive a mother-and-child welfare pension or a quasi-mother-and-child welfare pension under the former National Pension Act is deemed to be the wife prescribed in Article 39, paragraph (1) of the National Pension Act.

⑥For the purposes of applying the provisions of Article 39 and Article 107, paragraph (2) of the National Pension Act in the case referred to in paragraph (1), a child, grandchild or younger sibling who was a requirement for payment of a mother-and-child welfare pension or a quasi-mother-and-child welfare pension under the former National Pension Act, or who was counted for an addition to its amount, is deemed to be a child prescribed in Article 39, paragraph (1) of the National Pension Act.

⑦For the purposes of applying the provisions of Article 39, paragraph (3) of the National Pension Act (including where applied pursuant to Article 40, paragraph (2) of that Act) to a survivors' basic pension paid pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1), the phrase "the child of the deceased insured person or person who was an insured person" in Article 39, paragraph (3), item (iv) of that Act is deemed to be replaced with "the child of either the husband or the wife".

⑧With regard to a survivors' basic pension under the provisions of paragraph (1) paid to a person who had the right to receive a quasi-mother-and-child welfare pension prescribed in that paragraph, beyond revising the amount of the pension pursuant to the provisions of Article 39, paragraphs (2) and (3) of the National Pension Act, when one or two or more of the grandchildren or younger siblings prescribed in paragraph (6) come to share a livelihood with their mother or with their father's wife, the amount of the pension is revised, from the month following the month in which the day on which they came to share a livelihood falls, according to the number of grandchildren or younger siblings who have come to share a livelihood.

⑨The right to receive a survivors' basic pension under the provisions of paragraph (1) paid to a person who had the right to receive a quasi-mother-and-child welfare pension prescribed in that paragraph is extinguished pursuant to the provisions of Article 40, paragraphs (1) and (2) of the new National Pension Act, and is also extinguished when, where there is one grandchild or younger sibling prescribed in paragraph (6), that grandchild or younger sibling, or, where there are two or more grandchildren or younger siblings prescribed in that paragraph, all of those grandchildren or younger siblings, whether at the same time or at different times, come to share a livelihood with their mother or with their father's wife.

⑩Except as otherwise provided in these Supplementary Provisions and the new National Pension Act, the suspension of payment and the adjustment of payment relating to a survivors' basic pension paid pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) are governed by the provisions of Article 20, Article 41-4, paragraphs (1) through (4), Article 41-5, paragraphs (1) and (2), Articles 64-5 through 65, Article 66, paragraphs (3) through (5) and Article 67 of the former National Pension Act, and Article 25, paragraph (3) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the National Public Officers' Accident Compensation Act (Act No. 67 of 1966). In this case, the phrase "falls under" in Article 65, paragraph (1) of the former National Pension Act is deemed to be replaced with "falls under (limited, with regard to item (ii) and item (iii), to the cases specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare)", and the word "prison" in item (ii) of that paragraph is deemed to be replaced with "penal institution".

⑪With regard to an orphan's pension under the former National Pension Act whose ground for payment arose before the Effective Date, the provisions of Article 47 of the former National Pension Act remain in force. In this case, the necessary technical replacement of terms is specified by Cabinet Order.

①For the purposes of applying the provisions of Article 49, paragraph (1) of the National Pension Act, a disability pension under the former National Pension Act (excluding a disability welfare pension) is deemed to be a disability basic pension.

②For the purposes of applying the provisions of Article 52-2, paragraph (1) of the National Pension Act, a person who has ever received payment of an old-age pension, an aggregated old-age pension, a disability pension (excluding a disability welfare pension), a mother-and-child pension (excluding a mother-and-child welfare pension) or a quasi-mother-and-child pension (excluding a quasi-mother-and-child welfare pension) under the former National Pension Act, or of a survivors' basic pension under the provisions of paragraph (1) of the preceding Article, is deemed to be a person who has ever received payment of an old-age basic pension or a disability basic pension.

①For a person born on or before April 1, 1926, or a person born on or after April 2, 1926 who, on the day before the Effective Date, had the right to receive an old-age pension under the former Employees' Pension Insurance Act, an old-age pension under the former Mariners Insurance Act, or a retirement pension (limited to one whose person entitled to receive it had reached 55 years of age on that day) or a reduced retirement pension (limited to one whose person entitled to receive it had reached 55 years of age on that day) paid by a mutual aid association (or, with regard to a widow's pension, the wife of such a person who has died), the provisions of Articles 15 and 18 of the Supplementary Provisions, and of Chapter III, Section 2, Chapter III, Section 5, Subsections 1 and 2, and Article 37, item (iii) of the National Pension Act and Article 9-2 and Article 9-3 of the Supplementary Provisions of that Act, do not apply, and the provisions of the former National Pension Act concerning the requirements for payment of old-age pensions, aggregated old-age pensions and widow's pensions under that Act, and the provisions of other laws abolished or amended by this Act that concern the requirements for payment of these benefits paid as a pension (including the provisions of orders based on these provisions), remain in force with respect to these persons.

②In applying the provisions of Article 29-3 of the former National Pension Act that remain in force pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the term "25 years" in item (i) of that Article is deemed to be replaced with "10 years", and beyond that, necessary technical replacement of terms in connection with the application of the provisions that remain in force pursuant to the provisions of that paragraph is specified by Cabinet Order.