This Act comes into effect on the date of promulgation and, except as otherwise specially provided for in these Supplementary Provisions, applies from April 1, 1961.

①With regard to payment of unpaid insurance benefits for a beneficiary who died before April 1, 1961, the provisions then in force continue to govern.

②In the case of determining, pursuant to the provisions of Article 37, paragraph (3) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act as amended, the order of surviving family members who are to receive insurance benefits with regard to unpaid insurance benefits for a beneficiary of insurance benefits who died during the period from April 1, 1961 until the day preceding the day this Act comes into effect (hereinafter referred to as the "Effective Date"), if the person who should be of prior order (if there are two or more persons who should be of prior order, all of them) has died by the day preceding the Effective Date, the person next in order on the Effective Date is the surviving family member of the order who is to receive those unpaid insurance benefits.

③The provisions of Article 37 of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act as amended do not impair the rights acquired by a person who, before the Effective Date, acquired an unpaid pension, or the right to request its payment, pursuant to the provisions of that Article before the amendment.

The aggregated old-age pension under Article 46-3 of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act is not paid on the basis of an insured period under the Employees' Pension Insurance Act before April 1, 1961 of a person who, on that day, was not actually an insured or a member of a public pension system other than the National Pension, or a member with optional and continued coverage of the Mutual Aid Association for Employees of Agricultural, Forestry and Fishery Organizations; provided, however, that this does not apply if that insured period has come to be treated as a period subject to aggregation pursuant to the proviso to Article 2, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act on General Rules for Aggregated Pensions.

①Among persons who had an insured period under the Employees' Pension Insurance Act of one year or more on April 1, 1961 but had not satisfied any of the insured periods prescribed in the items of Article 42, paragraph (1) of that Act, with regard to a person who, on that day, was actually an insured or a member of a public pension system other than employees' pension insurance and the National Pension, or a member with optional and continued coverage of the Mutual Aid Association for Employees of Agricultural, Forestry and Fishery Organizations, who fell under any of Article 46-3, item (i), (a) through (d) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act as amended, and who was 60 years of age or older, the aggregated old-age pension under that Article is paid retroactively to April 1, 1961.

②Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 36, paragraph (1) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act, payment of the aggregated old-age pension under the provisions of the preceding paragraph begins in April 1961.

③Among persons who had an insured period under the Employees' Pension Insurance Act of one year or more on April 1, 1961 but had not satisfied any of the insured periods prescribed in the items of Article 42, paragraph (1) of that Act, if a person who, on that day, was not actually an insured or a member of a public pension system other than the National Pension, or a member with optional and continued coverage of the Mutual Aid Association for Employees of Agricultural, Forestry and Fishery Organizations, becomes, after that day, an insured or a member of a public pension system other than employees' pension insurance and the National Pension, and at that time is actually 60 years of age or older and falls under, or comes to fall under, any of Article 46-3, item (i), (a) through (d) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act as amended, the aggregated old-age pension under that Article is paid to that person. In such a case, if the day on which the person became an insured or a member of a public pension system other than employees' pension insurance and the National Pension is before the Effective Date, payment of the aggregated old-age pension to the person is to be retroactive to that day.

The aggregated old-age pension is not paid to a person who received payment of a withdrawal allowance during the period from April 1, 1961 until the day preceding the Effective Date, on the basis of the insured period that formed the basis for calculating the amount of the withdrawal allowance.

②The same as in paragraph (1) applies when an insured set forth in the upper column of the table in the preceding paragraph who has an insured period on or after April 1, 1961 that is equal to or more than the respective period prescribed in the lower column of that table, and who has not satisfied the insured period required to receive an old-age pension, reaches the age of 65, or when the insured period, on or after April 1, 1961, of a person aged 65 or older who is an insured set forth in the upper column of that table and has not satisfied the insured period required to receive an old-age pension reaches the respective period prescribed in the lower column of that table.

③The same as in paragraph (1) applies when an insured set forth in the upper column of the table in paragraph (1) who has an insured period on or after April 1, 1961 that is equal to or more than the respective period prescribed in the lower column of that table, and who has not satisfied the insured period required to receive an old-age pension, comes, before reaching the age of 65, to have a standardized remuneration grade falling under grade 1 through grade 20, or when the insured period, on or after April 1, 1961, of a person set forth in the upper column of that table who is an insured under the age of 65 who has not satisfied the insured period required to receive an old-age pension and whose standardized remuneration grade is grade 1 through grade 20 reaches the respective period prescribed in the lower column of that table.

①With regard to a withdrawal allowance for the loss of status that is paid to a person who forfeited status as an insured before the Effective Date and acquired the right to receive benefits from a withdrawal allowance, the provisions then in force continue to govern.

②A withdrawal allowance is paid in accordance with the provisions then in force to a person set forth in the following items; provided, however, that this does not apply to a person set forth in item (i) or (ii) if, in a case where a withdrawal allowance in accordance with the provisions then in force is to be paid, the person who is to receive payment holds, or acquires at that time, the right to receive benefits from an aggregated old-age pension:

③The right to receive benefits from a withdrawal allowance prescribed in the preceding two paragraphs ceases to exist when the beneficiary acquires the right to receive benefits from an aggregated old-age pension on or after the Effective Date.

④With regard to a beneficiary of a withdrawal allowance under the provisions of paragraph (1) who is deemed to have acquired the right to receive benefits from an aggregated old-age pension retroactively to before the Effective Date, when the person receives payment of the aggregated old-age pension, the right to receive benefits from the withdrawal allowance ceases to exist, and when the person receives payment of the withdrawal allowance, the person is deemed not to have acquired the right to receive benefits from an aggregated old-age pension retroactively.

⑤If a beneficiary of a withdrawal allowance under the provisions of paragraph (1) dies on or after April 1, 1961, or a beneficiary of a withdrawal allowance under the provisions of paragraph (2) dies on or after the Effective Date, the provisions of Article 37 of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act as amended apply mutatis mutandis, notwithstanding those provisions.

⑥If a person who received payment of a withdrawal allowance pursuant to the provisions of Article 69 or Article 22-2 of the Supplementary Provisions of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act before the amendment, during the period from April 1, 1961 until the day preceding the Effective Date, reports to the prefectural governor within six months from the Effective Date and returns an amount equivalent to the amount of the withdrawal allowance received, the person is deemed not to have received payment of that withdrawal allowance.