Supplementary Provisions, Article 37Transitional Measures Concerning Investment of the Reserve Fund
第三十七条（積立金の運用に関する経過措置）
The Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare may, notwithstanding the provisions of Chapter V of the National Pension Act after the revision under the provisions of Article 3, or Chapter IV-2 of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act after the revision under the provisions of Article 7 (referred to in the following paragraph as the "amended investment provisions"), deposit, with the Government Pension Investment Fund, Independent Administrative Agency, for the purpose of having it underwrite government bonds under the provisions of Article 62, paragraph (1) of the Act on Special Accounts, the pension reserve fund deposited with the Trust Fund Bureau as of the end of fiscal year 2000 (meaning the reserve fund relating to the National Pension Account of the National Pension Special Account based on the Act on the National Pension Special Account (Act No. 63 of 1961) before its repeal under the provisions of Article 66, item (xxiii) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act on Special Accounts (Act No. 23 of 2007), and the reserve fund relating to the Pension Account of the Employees' Insurance Special Account based on the Act on the Employees' Insurance Special Account (Act No. 10 of 1944) before its repeal under the provisions of item (v) of that Article).
厚生労働大臣は、平成十二年度末現在資金運用部に預託している年金積立金（特別会計に関する法律（平成十九年法律第二十三号）附則第六十六条第二十三号の規定による廃止前の国民年金特別会計法（昭和三十六年法律第六十三号）に基づく国民年金特別会計の国民年金勘定及び同条第五号の規定による廃止前の厚生保険特別会計法（昭和十九年法律第十号）に基づく厚生保険特別会計の年金勘定に係る積立金をいう。）については、第三条の規定による改正後の国民年金法第五章又は第七条の規定による改正後の厚生年金保険法第四章の二の規定（次項において「改正後の運用規定」という。）にかかわらず、年金積立金管理運用独立行政法人に対し、特別会計に関する法律第六十二条第一項の規定による公債を引き受けることを目的として寄託することができる。
With respect to investment of the pension reserve fund prescribed in the preceding paragraph, deposit under the provisions of that paragraph and any other necessary measures are to be taken giving consideration to the stable financial operation of the National Pension program and the Employees' Pension Insurance program, and giving consideration to the cash flow relating to the continuation of the Trust Fund Bureau's existing loans and the effect on the market. In this case, this is to be done so that the amount of the reserve fund of the National Pension Account and the Employees' Pension Account of the Pension Special Account deposited with the Government Pension Investment Fund, Independent Administrative Agency, under the amended investment provisions, at the end of each fiscal year, gradually increases.