This Act comes into effect on October 1, 2014; provided, however, that the provisions set forth in the following items come into effect on the dates specified in those items.

The government is to, with a target of five years after the enforcement of the provisions set forth in item (v) of the preceding Article, taking into account the status of the enforcement of this Act, review the state of the regulation based on the provisions of the National Pension Act as amended by this Act, and when it finds it necessary, take the required measures based on the results of that review.

①When the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare intends to establish the policy set forth in Article 14-3, paragraph (1) of the National Pension Act after the amendment under the provisions of Article 1 (limited to the provisions amending as set forth in Article 1, item (iii) of the Supplementary Provisions) (referred to as the "National Pension Act as amended by the item (iii) provisions" in the following Article and Article 5 of the Supplementary Provisions), or the policy set forth in Article 28-3, paragraph (1) of the Employees’ Pension Insurance Act after the amendment under the provisions of Article 3 (limited to the provisions amending as set forth in that item) (hereinafter referred to as the "Employees' Pension Insurance Act as amended by the item (iii) provisions"), the Minister may consult the Social Security Council even before the date of enforcement of the provisions set forth in that item.

②When the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare intends to establish the Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare set forth in Article 9-4-7, paragraph (9) of the Supplementary Provisions of the National Pension Act after the amendment under the provisions of Article 2 (limited to the provisions amending as set forth in Article 1, item (vii) of the Supplementary Provisions) (hereinafter referred to in this paragraph as the "National Pension Act as amended by the item (vii) provisions") (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 9-4-9, paragraph (9), Article 9-4-10, paragraph (7), and Article 9-4-11, paragraph (7) of the Supplementary Provisions of the National Pension Act as amended by the item (vii) provisions), the Minister may consult the Social Security Council even before the date of enforcement of the provisions set forth in that item (hereinafter referred to as the "item (vii) effective date").

The provisions of Article 14-4 of the National Pension Act as amended by the item (iii) provisions do not apply until March 31, 2015.

①With respect to a person who can claim payment of an unpaid pension pursuant to the provisions of Article 19 of the National Pension Act before the amendment under Article 1 of the Act Partially Amending the National Pension Act, etc. (Act No. 34 of 1985; hereinafter referred to as the "1985 Amendment Act") (referred to as the "former National Pension Act" in the following paragraph), for which the provisions then in force continue to govern pursuant to Article 32, paragraph (12) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 1985 Amendment Act, or other provisions concerning payment of an unpaid pension specified by Cabinet Order, the provisions of Article 14-2, paragraph (2) of the National Pension Act as amended by the item (iii) provisions apply by deeming that person to be a person who can claim payment of an unpaid pension pursuant to the provisions of Article 19 of the National Pension Act.

②With respect to a person who can receive an orphan's pension under the former National Pension Act, or another benefit in the form of a pension with death as the ground for payment specified by Cabinet Order, for which the provisions then in force continue to govern pursuant to Article 32, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 1985 Amendment Act, the provisions of Article 14-2, paragraph (2) of the National Pension Act as amended by the item (iii) provisions apply by deeming that person to be a spouse or child who can receive a survivors' basic pension under the National Pension Act.

③In the cases referred to in the preceding two paragraphs, the necessary replacement of terms and other necessary matters concerning the application of the provisions of Article 14-2, paragraph (2) of the National Pension Act as amended by the item (iii) provisions are specified by Cabinet Order.

①From October 1, 2015 to September 30, 2018, an insured person of National Pension or a person who was an insured person of National Pension (excluding a person entitled to receive an old-age basic pension under the National Pension Act) may, with the approval of the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare, pay, for each month of a period, among that person’s insured periods of National Pension, other than the premium-paid period of National Pension (meaning the premium-paid period prescribed in Article 5, paragraph (1) of that Act; the same applies hereinafter) and the premium exemption period (meaning the premium exemption period prescribed in paragraph (2) of that Article) (limited to a period within five years before the month in which the day of approval falls, and for which the right to collect the premium of National Pension pertaining to that period has been extinguished by prescription), a premium of National Pension in the amount obtained by adding the amount specified by Cabinet Order to the amount equivalent to the premium of National Pension for that month (hereinafter referred to in this Article as the "late-payment premium").

②When granting the approval under the preceding paragraph, if a person seeking that approval has not paid the whole or part of a premium of National Pension that was not paid by the due date for payment and for which the right to collect it has not been extinguished by prescription (hereinafter referred to in this paragraph as "premiums in arrears"), the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare is to request payment of those premiums in arrears.

③Payment of the late-payment premium under paragraph (1) is to be made in order, beginning with the late-payment premium pertaining to the premium of National Pension for the month that elapsed earliest.

④When payment of the late-payment premium is made under the provisions of paragraph (1), the premium of National Pension for the month to which the payment pertains is deemed to have been paid on the day the payment was made.

⑤With regard to the application of the provisions of Article 87-2, paragraph (2) of the National Pension Act in the case referred to in the preceding paragraph, the term "Article 94, paragraph (4)" in that paragraph is deemed to be replaced with "Article 94, paragraph (4), or Article 10, paragraph (4) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the National Pension Act, etc. for Improving the Administration of Government-Administered Pension Programs, etc. (Act No. 64 of 2014)".

⑥With regard to the application of the provisions of Article 18 of the Supplementary Provisions of the 1985 Amendment Act to a person who paid the late-payment premium under the provisions of paragraph (1), the term "the insured period of National Pension on and after that day" in paragraph (1) of that Article is deemed to be replaced with "the period that became a premium-paid period as a result of payment made on and after that day under the provisions of Article 10, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the National Pension Act, etc. for Improving the Administration of Government-Administered Pension Programs, etc. (Act No. 64 of 2014)".

⑦The affairs pertaining to the authority of approval of the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare under the provisions of paragraph (1) are to be performed by the Japan Pension Organization. In this case, the term "the National Pension Act" in Article 23, paragraph (3) of the Japan Pension Organization Act is deemed to be replaced with "the National Pension Act or the Act Partially Amending the National Pension Act, etc. for Improving the Administration of Government-Administered Pension Programs, etc. (Act No. 64 of 2014)"; the term "the National Pension Act" in Article 26, paragraph (2) of that Act is deemed to be replaced with "the National Pension Act or the Act Partially Amending the National Pension Act, etc. for Improving the Administration of Government-Administered Pension Programs, etc."; the term "the affairs pertaining to the authority prescribed therein, that Act" in Article 27, paragraph (1), item (ii) of that Act is deemed to be replaced with "and the affairs pertaining to the authority prescribed in Article 10, paragraph (7) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the National Pension Act, etc. for Improving the Administration of Government-Administered Pension Programs, etc., the National Pension Act"; and the term "the National Pension Act" in Article 48, paragraph (1) of that Act is deemed to be replaced with "the National Pension Act or the Act Partially Amending the National Pension Act, etc. for Improving the Administration of Government-Administered Pension Programs, etc.".

⑧The provisions of Article 109-4, paragraphs (3), (4), (6), and (7) of the National Pension Act apply mutatis mutandis to the authority of approval under the preceding paragraph. In this case, the necessary technical replacement of terms is specified by Cabinet Order.

⑨The authority of approval of the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare under the provisions of paragraph (1) may be delegated to the Director-General of the Regional Bureau of Health and Welfare, as specified by an Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.

⑩The authority delegated to the Director-General of the Regional Bureau of Health and Welfare under the provisions of the preceding paragraph may be delegated to the Director-General of the Regional Branch Bureau of Health and Welfare, as specified by an Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.

⑪Beyond what is provided for in the preceding paragraphs, the payment procedure for the late-payment premium and other necessary matters concerning payment of the late-payment premium are specified by Cabinet Order.

With regard to the application of the provisions of the preceding Article during the period until the specific premium payment due date prescribed in Article 9-4-3, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the National Pension Act, the term "limited to" in paragraph (1) of that Article is deemed to be replaced with "limited to, excluding the specific period prescribed in Article 9-4-2, paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisions of that Act".

①During the period until the day on which three years have elapsed from the item (vii) effective date (hereinafter referred to as the "specified additional premium payment deadline"), an insured person of National Pension or a person who was an insured person of National Pension (limited to a person who has a period during which that person became liable to pay the premium under the provisions of Article 87-2, paragraph (1) of the National Pension Act (hereinafter referred to in this Article and the following Article as the "additional premium"), and who, as a result of not paying the additional premium by the due date for payment, became subject to the application of the provisions of Article 87-2, paragraph (4) of the National Pension Act before the amendment under Article 1 of the Act Partially Amending the National Pension Act, etc. to Strengthen, etc. the Financial Basis and Minimum Guarantee Function of the Public Pension System (Act No. 62 of 2012) (hereinafter referred to in this paragraph as the "pre-2012 National Pension Act")) may, with the approval of the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare, pay, for each month of a period, among that person’s insured periods as a category 1 insured person prescribed in Article 7, paragraph (1), item (i) of the National Pension Act (referred to as a "category 1 insured person" in Article 14, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions) (excluding a period specified by Cabinet Order), among the premium-paid periods other than the premium-paid period pertaining to the additional premium, the period during which that person would have become liable to pay the additional premium had the provisions of Article 87-2, paragraph (4) of the pre-2012 National Pension Act not been applied as a result of not paying the additional premium by the due date for payment (limited to a period within ten years before the month in which the day of approval falls; referred to as the "specified period eligible for additional premiums" in the following Article), a premium of National Pension in the amount equivalent to the additional premium for that month (hereinafter referred to as the "specified additional premium").

②Payment of the specified additional premium under the provisions of the preceding paragraph is to be made in order, beginning with the specified additional premium pertaining to the additional premium for the month that elapsed earliest.

③When payment of the specified additional premium is made under the provisions of paragraph (1), the additional premium for the month to which the payment pertains is deemed to have been paid on the day the payment was made.

④With regard to the application of the provisions of Article 43 of the National Pension Act in the case where a person entitled to receive an old-age basic pension under the National Pension Act (excluding a person who has a premium-paid period pertaining to the additional premium) has paid the specified additional premium under the provisions of paragraph (1), the term "acquired the right to receive an old-age basic pension" in that Article is deemed to be replaced with "paid the specified additional premium prescribed in Article 12, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the National Pension Act, etc. for Improving the Administration of Government-Administered Pension Programs, etc. (Act No. 64 of 2014) pursuant to the provisions of that paragraph".

⑤When a person entitled to receive an additional pension under the National Pension Act (referred to as the "additional pension" in the following Article) has paid the specified additional premium under the provisions of paragraph (1), the pension amount is revised from the month following the month in which the day of payment falls; provided, however, that this does not apply where that person entitled to receive the benefit is a specified recipient prescribed in paragraph (1) of the following Article, and the number of months pertaining to that payment for which the additional premium is deemed to have been paid pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (3) is less than the number of months of the special additional premium-paid period prescribed in paragraph (1) of that Article.

⑥Beyond what is provided for in the preceding paragraphs, the payment procedure for the specified additional premium and other necessary matters concerning payment of the specified additional premium are specified by Cabinet Order.

①The special additional premium-paid period (meaning, among the specified periods eligible for additional premiums, the specified period eligible for additional premiums that was treated, as of the item (vii) effective date, as a premium-paid period pertaining to the additional premium) held by a person who has a specified period eligible for additional premiums and who, as of the item (vii) effective date, is receiving an additional pension on the basis that that specified period eligible for additional premiums is a premium-paid period pertaining to the additional premium (including a person for whom payment of the whole of the additional pension is suspended; referred to as a "specified recipient" in the following paragraph) is, when applying the provisions of the National Pension Act and other laws and regulations specified by Cabinet Order (limited to those relating to the additional pension), deemed to be a premium-paid period pertaining to the additional premium until the specified additional premium payment deadline.

②With respect to the additional pension of a specified recipient, except where the pension amount has been revised under the provisions of paragraph (5) of the preceding Article, the pension amount is revised in the month following the month in which the specified additional premium payment deadline falls.

①During the period from July 2016 to June 2035, when an application is made by a category 1 insured person, etc. (meaning a category 1 insured person or a person who was a category 1 insured person; the same applies in paragraph (1) of the following Article) who has an insured period up to the month preceding the month in which the day on which that person reaches 50 years of age falls (limited to a period on and after the month in which the day on which that person reached 30 years of age falls; the same applies hereinafter in this paragraph), and who falls under any of the following items, the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare is to, notwithstanding the provisions of Article 88, paragraph (1) of the National Pension Act, exempt that person from the requirement to pay the premium of National Pension pertaining to the period designated by the Minister among that insured period (excluding a period during which the provisions of Article 90, paragraph (1) or Article 90-2, paragraphs (1) through (3) of that Act apply, or a period during which that person is a student, etc. prescribed in Article 90, paragraph (1) of that Act (hereinafter referred to in this paragraph as "students") or was a student, etc.), other than a premium already paid, and may, on and after the day of application, include the period pertaining to that premium in the full premium exemption period prescribed in Article 5, paragraph (3) of that Act (excluding, where a retroactive payment has been made under the provisions of Article 94, paragraph (1) of that Act, the period pertaining to that retroactive payment); provided, however, that this does not apply where the spouse (meaning the spouse prescribed in Article 5, paragraph (7) of that Act) does not fall under any of the following items.

②The provisions of Article 90, paragraphs (2) and (3) of the National Pension Act apply mutatis mutandis to the case referred to in the preceding paragraph.

③With respect to a person exempted from the requirement to pay the premium under the provisions of paragraph (1) and the premium exempted under the provisions of that paragraph, when applying the provisions of the National Pension Act and other laws and regulations, they are deemed to be a person exempted from the requirement to pay the premium under the provisions of Article 90-3, paragraph (1) of that Act and the premium exempted under the provisions of that paragraph, respectively, and the necessary matters concerning the application of these provisions are specified by Cabinet Order.

④The provisions of paragraph (1) do not apply to an insured person under the provisions of Article 5, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the National Pension Act.

⑤The affairs pertaining to the authority of the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare for the acceptance of applications and the making of dispositions under the provisions of paragraph (1) are to be performed by the Japan Pension Organization. In this case, the term "the National Pension Act" in Article 23, paragraph (3) of the Japan Pension Organization Act is deemed to be replaced with "the National Pension Act or the Act Partially Amending the National Pension Act, etc. for Improving the Administration of Government-Administered Pension Programs, etc. (Act No. 64 of 2014)"; the term "the National Pension Act" in Article 26, paragraph (2) of that Act is deemed to be replaced with "the National Pension Act or the Act Partially Amending the National Pension Act, etc. for Improving the Administration of Government-Administered Pension Programs, etc."; the term "the affairs pertaining to the authority prescribed therein, that Act" in Article 27, paragraph (1), item (ii) of that Act is deemed to be replaced with "and the affairs pertaining to the authority prescribed in Article 14, paragraph (5) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the National Pension Act, etc. for Improving the Administration of Government-Administered Pension Programs, etc., the National Pension Act"; and the term "the National Pension Act" in Article 48, paragraph (1) of that Act is deemed to be replaced with "the National Pension Act or the Act Partially Amending the National Pension Act, etc. for Improving the Administration of Government-Administered Pension Programs, etc.".

⑥The provisions of Article 109-4, paragraphs (3), (4), (6), and (7) of the National Pension Act apply mutatis mutandis to the authority for the acceptance of applications and the making of dispositions under the preceding paragraph. In this case, the necessary technical replacement of terms is specified by Cabinet Order.

⑦The authority of the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare under the provisions of paragraph (1) may be delegated to the Director-General of the Regional Bureau of Health and Welfare, as specified by an Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.

⑧The authority delegated to the Director-General of the Regional Bureau of Health and Welfare under the provisions of the preceding paragraph may be delegated to the Director-General of the Regional Branch Bureau of Health and Welfare, as specified by an Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.

⑨The scope of the income prescribed in paragraph (1), item (i), and the method of calculating its amount, are specified by Cabinet Order.

①A designated full premium exemption application handler prescribed in Article 109-2, paragraph (1) of the National Pension Act after the amendment under the provisions of Article 2 (limited to the provisions amending as set forth in Article 1, item (v) of the Supplementary Provisions) (referred to as the "National Pension Act as amended by the item (v) provisions" in paragraph (4)) may, in addition to the affairs prescribed in that paragraph, upon entrustment by insured persons meeting the postponement requirements (limited to a category 1 insured person, etc. who falls under any of the items of paragraph (1) of the preceding Article, and who is a person specified by an Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare; hereinafter referred to in this Article as "insured persons meeting the postponement requirements"), make an application for payment postponement (meaning the application under paragraph (1) of the preceding Article pertaining to insured persons meeting the postponement requirements; hereinafter referred to in this Article as an "application for payment postponement").

②When insured persons meeting the postponement requirements entrust an application for payment postponement to a designated full premium exemption application handler, for the purpose of applying the provisions of paragraph (1) of the preceding Article and the provisions of Article 90, paragraph (2) of the National Pension Act as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to paragraph (2) of that Article, the application for payment postponement is deemed to have been made on the day that entrustment was made.

③When a designated full premium exemption application handler is entrusted with an application for payment postponement by insured persons meeting the postponement requirements, the handler must, without delay, make that application for payment postponement, as specified by an Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.

④The affairs concerning an application for payment postponement performed by a designated full premium exemption application handler are deemed to be affairs under Article 109-2, paragraph (1) of the National Pension Act as amended by the item (v) provisions, and the provisions of paragraphs (4) through (8) of that Article (including the penal provisions relating to these provisions) apply. In this case, the necessary technical replacement of terms is specified by Cabinet Order.

The provisions set forth in the following items apply to the portion of the delinquency charge (or, in the case of item (xv), the additional charge; the same applies hereinafter in this Article) prescribed in the provisions specified in those items that corresponds to the period on and after January 1, 2015, and with respect to the portion of that delinquency charge that corresponds to the period before that day, 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.