For the time being, for the purpose of applying the provisions of Article 7-5, paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisions of the National Pension Act, the phrase "or the category 4 employees' pension insured period prescribed in item (iv) of that paragraph (hereinafter referred to in this Article as the 'category 4 employees' pension insured period')" in that paragraph is deemed to be replaced with "or the category 4 employees' pension insured period prescribed in item (iv) of that paragraph (hereinafter referred to in this Article as the 'category 4 employees' pension insured period'), or the periods listed in the items of Article 8, paragraph (2) (excluding item (i)) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the National Pension Act, etc. (Act No. 34 of 1985; hereinafter referred to as the '1985 Amendment Act') that relate to the period before April 1, 1986", the phrase "or Article 9-2-2, paragraph (1)" is deemed to be replaced with "or Article 9-2-2, paragraph (1), or Article 15, paragraph (1) or paragraph (2), Article 18, paragraph (1) or Article 32, paragraph (6) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 1985 Amendment Act", the phrase "period during which the person was an insured person of Employees' Pension Insurance" is deemed to be replaced with "period during which the person was an insured person of Employees' Pension Insurance, or the periods listed in the items of Article 8, paragraph (2) (excluding item (i)) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 1985 Amendment Act that relate to the period before April 1, 1986", and the phrase "confirmation of the Promotion and Mutual Aid Corporation for Private Schools of Japan" is deemed to be replaced with "confirmation of the Promotion and Mutual Aid Corporation for Private Schools of Japan, and, for the periods listed in the items of Article 8, paragraph (2) (excluding item (i)) of the Supplementary Provisions of that 1985 Amendment Act that relate to the period before April 1, 1986, the confirmation of that Federation of National Public Service Personnel Mutual Aid Associations, Local Public Servants Mutual Aid Association or Promotion and Mutual Aid Corporation for Private Schools of Japan, according to the category of the periods listed in those respective items".

For the purpose of applying the provisions listed in the following items with respect to the amounts of benefits paid as a pension or the additional amounts listed in those items, if the annual average price index for 1985 comes to exceed 100 percent of the fiscal year average price index for fiscal 1983, the amounts of benefits paid as a pension or the additional amounts specified in the provisions listed in those items for the months of April 1986 and thereafter are to be the amounts revised, as specified by Cabinet Order, on the basis of the rate of that increase:

①Until the date specified by Cabinet Order, payment of the old-age pension paid because the person falls under Article 9-3, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the new National Pension Act is, notwithstanding the provisions of Article 18, paragraph (3) of that Act, made in the same manner as provided in Article 10 of the former Pension Aggregation General Rules Act.

②Transitional measures necessary in connection with the enforcement of the provisions of the preceding paragraph are specified by Cabinet Order.

①The provisions of Article 20 of the National Pension Act do not apply to the widow's pension under the former National Pension Act.

②Payment of a benefit paid as a pension under the National Pension Act (excluding the old-age basic pension, the old-age pension under Article 9-3 of the Supplementary Provisions of that Act, the additional pension, the disability basic pension paid pursuant to the provisions of Article 25 of the Supplementary Provisions and the survivors' basic pension paid pursuant to the provisions of Article 28 of the Supplementary Provisions) is suspended for as long as the person entitled to receive it is able to receive a benefit paid as a pension under the former National Pension Act (including a benefit paid as a pension paid pursuant to the provisions of the former National Pension Act that remain in force pursuant to the provisions of Article 31, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions; the same applies hereinafter in this Article) or an insurance benefit paid as a pension that the government as the implementer of Employees' Pension Insurance is to pay pursuant to the provisions of Article 87, paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisions. The same applies to the old-age basic pension and the old-age pension, in a case where the person entitled to receive the old-age basic pension or the old-age pension under Article 9-3 of the Supplementary Provisions of the National Pension Act is able to receive a benefit paid as a pension under the former National Pension Act or an insurance benefit paid as a pension that the government as the implementer of Employees' Pension Insurance is to pay pursuant to the provisions of Article 87, paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisions (excluding one whose ground for payment is death), and to the disability basic pension paid pursuant to the provisions of Article 25 of the Supplementary Provisions, in a case where the person entitled to receive it is able to receive a benefit paid as a pension under the former National Pension Act.

③Payment of a benefit paid as a pension under the former National Pension Act (excluding the old-age pension and the aggregated old-age pension (limited to one whose person entitled to receive it has reached 65 years of age) and the disability pension (limited to one whose person entitled to receive it has reached 65 years of age)) is suspended for as long as the person entitled to receive it is able to receive a benefit paid as a pension under the National Pension Act (excluding the additional pension and the survivors' basic pension paid pursuant to the provisions of Article 28 of the Supplementary Provisions; the same applies hereinafter in this paragraph), or an insurance benefit paid as a pension under the Employees' Pension Insurance Act or a benefit paid as a pension under the pre-2012 Mutual Aid Acts (meaning a benefit paid as a pension under the provisions concerning long-term benefits of the Pre-2012 National Public Officers Mutual Aid Association Act and other provisions of Acts that remain in force pursuant to the provisions of Article 37, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 2012 Pension Unification Act, under the provisions concerning long-term benefits of the Pre-2012 Local Public Officers, etc. Mutual Aid Association Act and other provisions of Acts that remain in force pursuant to the provisions of Article 61, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 2012 Pension Unification Act, or under the provisions concerning long-term benefits of the Private School Personnel Mutual Aid Association Act prior to amendment by Article 4 of the 2012 Pension Unification Act and other provisions of Acts that remain in force pursuant to the provisions of Article 79 of the Supplementary Provisions of the 2012 Pension Unification Act; the same applies hereinafter), other than a retirement mutual aid pension paid to a person prescribed in Article 31, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions (hereinafter referred to in this paragraph as "Employees' Pension Insurance pension benefits, etc."). The same applies to that old-age pension and aggregated old-age pension, in a case where the person entitled to receive an old-age pension (excluding the old-age welfare pension) or an aggregated old-age pension under the former National Pension Act (limited to a person who has reached 65 years of age) is able to receive a benefit paid as a pension under the National Pension Act or Employees' Pension Insurance pension benefits, etc. (excluding the survivors' employees' pension, the special survivors' pension and the survivors' mutual aid pension); to that disability pension, in a case where the person entitled to receive a disability pension under the former National Pension Act (limited to a person who has reached 65 years of age) is able to receive a benefit paid as a pension under the National Pension Act or Employees' Pension Insurance pension benefits, etc. (excluding the old-age employees' pension, the survivors' employees' pension, the special survivors' pension, the retirement mutual aid pension and the survivors' mutual aid pension); and to that old-age welfare pension, in a case where the person entitled to receive an old-age welfare pension under the former National Pension Act is able to receive a benefit paid as a pension under the National Pension Act.

④The provisions of Article 20, paragraphs (2) through (4) of the new National Pension Act apply mutatis mutandis to the cases under the preceding two paragraphs.

⑤With regard to the old-age basic pension and the old-age pension under Article 9-3 of the Supplementary Provisions of the National Pension Act, the phrase "(excluding the survivors' employees' pension" in Article 20, paragraph (1) of that Act is deemed to be replaced with "(excluding the survivors' employees' pension and an insurance benefit paid as a pension under the Employees' Pension Insurance Act prior to amendment by Article 3 of the Act Partially Amending the National Pension Act, etc. (Act No. 34 of 1985) (limited to one whose ground for payment is death)) or a benefit paid as a pension under the pre-2012 Mutual Aid Acts prescribed in Article 11, paragraph (3) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the National Pension Act, etc. (excluding the retirement mutual aid pension, the survivors' mutual aid pension, the retirement pension, the reduced retirement pension, the pension for surviving family and the aggregated survivors' pension paid by mutual aid associations, etc. as implementing bodies (including those 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)".

⑥With regard to the disability basic pension paid pursuant to the provisions of Article 25 of the Supplementary Provisions, the phrase "is able to receive another pension benefit (excluding the additional pension)" in Article 20, paragraph (1) of the National Pension Act is deemed to be replaced with "(limited to a person who has not reached 65 years of age) is able to receive another pension benefit (excluding the additional pension) or a benefit paid as a pension under the pre-2012 Mutual Aid Acts prescribed in Article 11, paragraph (3) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the National Pension Act, etc. (Act No. 34 of 1985; hereinafter referred to as the '1985 Amendment Act') (excluding an insurance benefit paid as a pension under the Employees' Pension Insurance Act prior to amendment by Article 3 of the 1985 Amendment Act, and the retirement mutual aid pension (limited to one whose person entitled to receive it is a person prescribed in Article 31, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 1985 Amendment Act), the retirement pension, the reduced retirement pension, the aggregated retirement pension, the disability pension, the pension for surviving family and the aggregated survivors' pension paid by mutual aid associations, etc. as implementing bodies (including those 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))".

⑦With regard to the survivors' basic pension paid pursuant to the provisions of Article 28 of the Supplementary Provisions, the phrase "excluding one paid" in Article 20, paragraph (1) of the National Pension Act is deemed to be replaced with "excluding one paid and an insurance benefit paid as a pension under the Employees' Pension Insurance Act prior to amendment by Article 3 of the Act Partially Amending the National Pension Act, etc. (Act No. 34 of 1985; hereinafter referred to as the '1985 Amendment Act'); the same applies hereinafter in this Article) or a benefit paid as a pension under the pre-2012 Mutual Aid Acts prescribed in Article 11, paragraph (3) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 1985 Amendment Act (excluding the retirement mutual aid pension (limited to one whose person entitled to receive it is a person prescribed in Article 31, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 1985 Amendment Act), the retirement pension, the reduced retirement pension, the aggregated retirement pension, the disability pension, the pension for surviving family and the aggregated survivors' pension paid by mutual aid associations, etc. as implementing bodies (including those 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 the phrase "an insurance benefit paid as a pension under the Employees' Pension Insurance Act" in paragraph (2) of that Article is deemed to be replaced with "an insurance benefit paid as a pension under the Employees' Pension Insurance Act or a benefit paid as a pension under the pre-2012 Mutual Aid Acts prescribed in Article 11, paragraph (3) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 1985 Amendment Act".