①The provisions of Article 9-2, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the National Pension Act do not apply to a person born on or before April 1, 1941 who is an insured person of the National Pension.

②Payment of an old-age basic pension under the provisions of Article 9-2, paragraph (3) of the Supplementary Provisions of the National Pension Act is suspended while the person entitled to receive it (limited to a person born on or before April 1, 1941) is an insured person of the National Pension.

①The provisions of Article 9-3-2 of the Supplementary Provisions of the National Pension Act as Amended by the provisions of Article 1 (hereinafter referred to as the "National Pension Act as Amended") do not apply to a person who does not have an address in Japan on the date of promulgation of this Act (excluding a person who was an insured person of the National Pension on that date and a person who has become an insured person of the National Pension on or after that date).

②In applying the provisions of Article 9-3-2, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the National Pension Act as Amended to a person for whom the day on which the person last lost status as an insured person of the National Pension (or, for a person who had an address in Japan on that day, the day on which the person, for the first time after that day, ceased to have an address in Japan) falls within the period from the date of promulgation of this Act to March 31, 1995 (excluding a person who was an insured person of the National Pension on April 1 of that year and a person who has become an insured person of the National Pension on or after that day), the phrase "the day on which the person last lost status as an insured person (or, in the case of a person who had an address in Japan on that day, the day on which the person, for the first time after that day, ceased to have an address in Japan)" in paragraph (1), item (iii) of that Article is deemed to be replaced with "April 1, 1995".

①A category 3 insured person prescribed in Article 7, paragraph (1), item (iii) of the National Pension Act (hereinafter simply referred to in this paragraph as a "category 3 insured person"), or a person who was a category 3 insured person, may notify the prefectural governor with regard to a period, among that person's insured periods of the National Pension as a category 3 insured person before April 1, 1995, that is not included in the premium-paid period prescribed in Article 5, paragraph (2) of that Act (hereinafter simply referred to as the "premium-paid period") pursuant to the provisions of Article 7-3 of the Supplementary Provisions of that Act (excluding an insured period of the National Pension as a category 3 insured person that is not included in the premium-paid period pursuant to the provisions of Article 7-2 of the Supplementary Provisions of that Act).

②The notification under the provisions of the preceding paragraph must be made by March 31, 1997.

③If a notification has been made pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1), then, notwithstanding the provisions of Article 7-3 of the Supplementary Provisions of the National Pension Act, the period pertaining to the notification is included in the premium-paid period on and after the day on which the notification was made.

④If a person entitled to receive an old-age basic pension under the National Pension Act, or an old-age pension or aggregated old-age pension under the Former National Pension Act, makes a notification under the provisions of paragraph (1), and the period pertaining to the notification is included in the premium-paid period pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the amount of the pension is revised from the month following the month in which the day on which that notification was made falls.

⑤With regard to the application of the provisions of Article 18 of the Supplementary Provisions of the 1985 Amendment Act and Article 15 of the Supplementary Provisions of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act to a person for whom the period pertaining to the notification under paragraph (1) has been included in the premium-paid period pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (3), the phrase "the insured period of the National Pension on and after that day" in Article 18, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 1985 Amendment Act is deemed to be replaced with "the period included in the premium-paid period on and after that day", and the phrase "premium-paid period" in Article 15 of the Supplementary Provisions of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act is deemed to be replaced with "period included in the premium-paid period".

⑥The notification to the prefectural governor under the provisions of paragraph (1) must be made via the mayor of the municipality (including the head of a special ward) of the place of address of the person making that notification.

①A person born on or before April 1, 1955 who falls under any of the following items (excluding a category 2 insured person prescribed in Article 7, paragraph (1), item (ii) of the National Pension Act) may, notwithstanding the provisions of Article 7, paragraph (1) of that Act, notify the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare and become an insured person of the National Pension; provided, however, that this does not apply if that person has the right to receive an old-age basic pension under that Act, an old-age employees' pension under the Employees' Pension Insurance Act, or any other benefit in the form of a pension for which the ground for payment is old age or retirement that is specified by Cabinet Order.

②If a person who falls under item (i) of the preceding paragraph intends to make the notification under the provisions of that paragraph, the person must make to the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare a notification stating that the person wishes to entrust a financial institution holding the person's deposit account or savings account with withdrawing the deposit or savings and paying the premiums with the money so withdrawn (hereinafter referred to in this paragraph as "payment by account transfer"), or a notification stating that the person's case falls under a case specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare as a case where there is a justifiable reason for not making payment by account transfer.

③If an insured person under the provisions of Article 5, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the National Pension Act (limited to a person born on or before April 1, 1955) reaches 65 years of age, and does not have the right to receive the benefit specified by Cabinet Order prescribed in the proviso to paragraph (1), the notification under the preceding two paragraphs is deemed to have been made.

④A person who has made the notification under the provisions of paragraph (2) (or, for a person set forth in item (ii) of paragraph (1), that paragraph) is to acquire status as an insured person of the National Pension on the day on which the person made that notification (or, for a person deemed to have made the notification pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the day on which the person reached 65 years of age).

⑤An insured person of the National Pension under the provisions of paragraph (1) may, at any time, notify the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare and lose status as an insured person.

⑥An insured person of the National Pension under the provisions of paragraph (1) loses status as an insured person on the day following the day on which the person comes to fall under any of the following items (or, if the person comes to fall under item (ii), (iv) or (v), on that day).

⑦An insured person of the National Pension who is a person set forth in item (i) of paragraph (1) loses status as that insured person, in addition to losing it pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, on the day following the day on which the person comes to fall under any of the following items (or, if the person acquires status as an insured person of the National Pension again on the day on which the person comes to fall under item (i), on that day).

⑧An insured person of the National Pension who is a person set forth in item (ii) of paragraph (1) loses status as that insured person, in addition to losing it pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (6), on the day following the day on which the person comes to fall under any of the following items (or, if the person acquires status as an insured person of the National Pension again on the day on which that fact occurred, on that day).

⑨An insured period of the National Pension as an insured person of the National Pension under the provisions of paragraph (1) is deemed to be, respectively, an insured period of the National Pension as an insured person prescribed in Article 7, paragraph (1), item (i) of the National Pension Act for the purposes of the application of the provisions of Article 5, paragraph (1) of that Act, and an insured period of the National Pension as a category 1 insured person for the purposes of the application of the provisions of Articles 52-2 through 52-5 of that Act and Article 9-3 and Article 9-3-2 of the Supplementary Provisions of that Act.

⑩The provisions of Article 88-2 through Article 90-3 of the National Pension Act do not apply to an insured person of the National Pension under the provisions of paragraph (1).

With regard to the application of penal provisions to acts committed before the amending provisions set forth in Article 1, paragraph (1), item (i) of the Supplementary Provisions come into effect, the provisions then in force continue to govern.

Beyond what is provided for in these Supplementary Provisions, transitional measures necessary incidental to the enforcement of this Act are specified by Cabinet Order.