一The provisions amending Articles 102, 104 and 105, and the provisions of Article 19 of the Supplementary Provisions: the date on which 20 days have elapsed counting from the date of promulgation;

二The provisions amending Article 21-4 and Appended Table 2 through Appended Table 4, and the provisions of Articles 3 through 10, Article 11, paragraphs (2) through (4), Article 13, Article 14 and Article 17 of the Supplementary Provisions: April 1, 1996.

一Former Act contract: a retirement allowance mutual aid contract that took effect before April 1, 1991;

二1990 Act contract: a retirement allowance mutual aid contract that took effect on or after April 1, 1991 and before the Partial Effective Date;

三Number of months of paid premiums per bracket: the number of months for which premiums relating to each bracket (hereinafter referred to as a "bracket of the monthly premium") have been paid, for each such bracket, where the monthly premium is successively divided into brackets of 100 yen;

四Number of months of paid premiums per bracket before the Partial Effective Date: the number of months of paid premiums per bracket relating to the period before the Partial Effective Date;

五Former highest monthly premium: the highest amount of the monthly premium for each covered employee relating to the period before April 1991 under a former Act contract;

六Converted number of months: for each bracket of the monthly premium, where the number of months of paid premiums per bracket before the Partial Effective Date is 43 months or more (36 months or more, in the case of a former Act contract), the number of months obtained, on the assumption that the covered employee's retirement took place on the day preceding the Partial Effective Date, by subtracting that number of months of paid premiums per bracket before the Partial Effective Date from the number of months corresponding to the amount that is closest to the amount calculated by the previous calculation method, as provided by Cabinet Order, in accordance with the number of months of paid premiums per bracket before the Partial Effective Date, within a range not falling below that calculated amount, among the amounts equal to one-tenth of the amounts specified in the lower column of Appended Table 2 of the New Act; provided, however, that where the number of months equivalent to the converted number of months corresponding to that number of months of paid premiums per bracket before the Partial Effective Date is less than the largest of the numbers of months equivalent to the converted number of months corresponding to a number of months of paid premiums per bracket before the Partial Effective Date that is smaller than that number of months of paid premiums per bracket before the Partial Effective Date in the same bracket of the monthly premium, it is that largest number of months;

七Converted number of months for the cancellation refund: the number of months calculated in accordance with the provisions of the preceding item, with the phrase "on the assumption that the covered employee's retirement took place on the day preceding the Partial Effective Date" in that item deemed to be replaced with "on the assumption that the retirement allowance mutual aid contract relating to the covered employee was cancelled on the day preceding the Partial Effective Date";

八Calculation month: the calculation month prescribed in Article 10, paragraph (2), item (iii), (b) of the New Act.

一23 months or less: the amount obtained by adding together, for each bracket of the monthly premium, the amounts equal to one-tenth of the amounts specified in the lower column of Appended Table 1 of the New Act in accordance with the number of months of paid premiums per bracket (in the case where the retirement is due to death, the amount obtained by adding together the amounts obtained by multiplying 100 yen by the number of months of paid premiums per bracket);

二24 months or more and 42 months or less: the amount obtained by adding together, for each bracket of the monthly premium, the amounts obtained by multiplying 100 yen by the number of months of paid premiums per bracket (in the case of an Article 7 covered employee under a former Act contract, in a bracket of the monthly premium in which the number of months of paid premiums per bracket before the Partial Effective Date is 36 months or more, the amount equal to one-tenth of the amount specified in the lower column of Appended Table 2 of the New Act in accordance with the number of months obtained by adding the converted number of months corresponding to that number of months of paid premiums per bracket before the Partial Effective Date to the number of months of paid premiums per bracket, and where that amount exceeds the amount calculated by the previous calculation method, as provided by Cabinet Order, that calculated amount);

三43 months or more: the amount obtained by adding together the amounts specified in (a) and (b):

イThe amount obtained by adding together, for each bracket of the monthly premium, the amounts specified in (1) or (2) below according to the category of the number of months of paid premiums per bracket before the Partial Effective Date set out in (1) or (2):

（１）Where the number of months of paid premiums per bracket before the Partial Effective Date is 42 months or less (35 months or less, in the case of a former Act contract): the amount equal to one-tenth of the amount specified in the lower column of Appended Table 2 of the New Act in accordance with the number of months of paid premiums per bracket;

（２）Where the number of months of paid premiums per bracket before the Partial Effective Date is 43 months or more (36 months or more, in the case of a former Act contract): the amount equal to one-tenth of the amount specified in the lower column of Appended Table 2 of the New Act in accordance with the number of months obtained by adding the converted number of months corresponding to that number of months of paid premiums per bracket before the Partial Effective Date to the number of months of paid premiums per bracket; provided, however, that where that amount exceeds the amount calculated by the previous calculation method, as provided by Cabinet Order, that calculated amount;

ロIn the case of an Article 7 covered employee under a former Act contract for whom no premium in an amount exceeding the former highest monthly premium has been paid as a premium relating to the period before April 1996, the amount specified in (1) below, and in the case of any other Article 7 covered employee, the amount obtained by adding the amount specified in (2) to the amount specified in (1) below:

（１）The amount obtained by adding together the amounts obtained by multiplying the total of the amounts specified in (a), (1) or (2) in accordance with the number of months of paid premiums per bracket relating to the premium for each month from the month containing the day on which the retirement allowance mutual aid contract took effect through the calculation month (limited to a calculation month on or after April 1996) (referred to as the "specified hypothetical retirement allowance amount" in Article 11 of the Supplementary Provisions) by the payment rate for the fiscal year to which that calculation month belongs, as determined pursuant to the provisions of Article 11 of the Supplementary Provisions, in each case (where the amount has a fraction of less than one yen, it is rounded up to one yen);

（２）The amount obtained by adding together the amounts obtained by multiplying the total of the amounts equal to one-tenth of the amounts specified in the lower column of Appended Table 2 of the Small and Medium Sized Enterprise Retirement Allowance Cooperative Act before amendment (hereinafter referred to as the "Former Act") in accordance with the number of months of paid premiums per bracket relating to the premium for each month from the month containing the day on which the retirement allowance mutual aid contract took effect through the calculation month (limited to a calculation month from April 1992 through March 1996) (in the case of an Article 7 covered employee under a former Act contract, the premium for each month for the part of the premium exceeding the former highest monthly premium) by the payment rate for the fiscal year to which that calculation month belongs, as determined pursuant to the provisions of Article 10, paragraph (3) of the Former Act, in each case (where the amount has a fraction of less than one yen, it is rounded up to one yen).

一The amount obtained when, on the assumption that the retirement allowance mutual aid contract took effect on the day corresponding to the day on which it actually took effect, in the year going back by the number of years of the past service period from the year containing that day, and that the premiums for each month from the month containing that corresponding day through the month preceding the month containing the day on which the retirement allowance mutual aid contract actually took effect were paid at a monthly premium in an amount equivalent to the past service monthly amount, the provisions of the preceding Article (excluding item (i)) are applied with the phrase "Article 7 covered employee" in the preceding Article deemed to be replaced with "Article 8 covered employee";

二The amount obtained by adding the total amount of past service premiums paid (where the number of months for which past service premiums were paid is 48 months or 60 months, the amount obtained by multiplying the amount of the past service premium by 49.6 or 68, respectively) to the amount obtained when, on the assumption that no past service premium has been paid, the provisions of the preceding Article are applied with the phrase "Article 7 covered employee" in the preceding Article deemed to be replaced with "Article 8 covered employee".