This Act comes into effect on the date of promulgation; provided, however, that the provisions amending the table of contents (excluding the part replacing "Article 46-6" with "Article 46-7" and "Article 68" with "Article 68-2"), the provisions amending Article 1, the provisions amending Article 3, paragraph (1), the provisions amending Article 19, the provisions adding one Article after Article 19, the provisions adding one Article after Article 44, the provisions amending Article 81, paragraph (5) (limited to the parts concerning special class 1 insured persons, special class 2 insured persons, and special class 3 insured persons), the provisions adding one Article after Article 85, the provisions adding one paragraph to Article 87, the provisions adding one paragraph to Article 102, and the provisions adding one Chapter after Chapter VIII, as well as the provisions of Article 21, Articles 24 through 28, Article 37, and Articles 50 through 52 of the Supplementary Provisions, come into effect on the date specified by Cabinet Order.

The provisions of Article 20, Article 34, Article 39, paragraph (2), Article 43, paragraph (2), Article 46-4, paragraphs (1) and (2), Article 46-7, paragraph (4), Article 47, paragraph (1), Article 50, paragraph (1), Article 54-2, Article 55, paragraph (1), Article 57, Article 58, items (ii) and (iii), Article 60, paragraphs (2) and (3), Article 68-2, Article 70, paragraph (1), Article 80, paragraph (1), and Article 81, paragraph (5) (excluding the parts concerning special class 1 insured persons, special class 2 insured persons, special class 3 insured persons, and class 4 insured persons) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act as amended by this Act, the provisions of Article 22, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of that Act as amended by this Act, and the provisions of Article 4, Articles 9 through 13, Article 18, Articles 29 through 36, Article 42, Article 43, Article 44 (excluding the parts concerning the provisions amending Articles 24, 63 and 143-7 of the Act for Enforcement in Relation to Long-term Benefit, etc. under the Local Public Officers, etc. Mutual Aid Association Act (Act No. 153 of 1962)), Article 45, Article 48 and Article 49 of the Supplementary Provisions of this Act apply from May 1, 1965, and the provisions concerning class 4 insured persons in Article 81, paragraph (5) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act as amended by this Act apply from June 1 of that year.

The reduced old-age pension system for the case where a person who has satisfied the insured period necessary to receive an old-age pension ceases to be an insured before reaching the age of eligibility to receive an old-age pension is to be implemented, after being promptly reviewed, in accordance with what a separate Act provides.

With regard to the standardized remuneration for the period from May to September of that year of a person who acquired the status of an insured before May 1, 1965 and has continuously held the status of an insured up to that day (excluding a person who holds the status of a class 4 insured person), among those persons whose standardized monthly amount of remuneration in April of that year is 3,000 yen, 4,000 yen, 5,000 yen or 6,000 yen, or 36,000 yen (excluding a person whose monthly amount of remuneration is less than 37,500 yen), the provisions of Article 20 of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act as amended by this Act apply on the assumption that the person acquired the status of an insured on May 1 of that year; in this case, if the person is an insured covered by health insurance, notwithstanding the provisions of Article 22, paragraph (1) of that Act, the monthly amount of remuneration that served as the basis of the person's standardized remuneration in May of that year under the Health Insurance Act (Act No. 70 of 1922) is deemed to be the monthly amount of remuneration that serves as the basis of the standardized remuneration under the Employees' Pension Insurance Act as amended by this Act.

The provisions of Article 40-2 of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act as amended by this Act apply to the collection of an amount equivalent to the amount received of insurance benefits paid, on or after the date of promulgation of this Act, by deception or other wrongful means.

To an insured who, on the date of promulgation of this Act, actually satisfies the insured period prescribed in any of Article 42, paragraph (1), items (i) through (iii) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act and is 65 years of age or older, the old-age pension under that paragraph is paid, notwithstanding the provisions of Article 42, paragraph (1) of that Act as amended by this Act.

To an insured who, on the date of promulgation of this Act, actually has an insured period of one year or more and has not satisfied any of the insured periods necessary to receive an old-age pension under the Employees' Pension Insurance Act, and who falls under any of Article 46-3, item (i), (a) through (d) of that Act and is 65 years of age or older, the aggregated old-age pension under Article 46-3 of that Act is paid, notwithstanding the provisions of Article 46-3 of that Act as amended by this Act.

In the case where a person who, on the date of promulgation of this Act, actually has an insured period of one year or more and has not satisfied the insured period necessary to receive an old-age pension under the Employees' Pension Insurance Act falls under any one of the following items, if that person does not have the right to receive an aggregated old-age pension, the special old-age pension under Article 28-3, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of that Act as amended by this Act is paid to that person:

①With regard to the pension insurance benefits paid to a person who, on May 1, 1965, actually has the right to receive pension insurance benefits the amount of which was calculated pursuant to the provisions of Chapter III of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act, the amount is the amount calculated pursuant to the provisions of that Chapter of that Act as amended by this Act.

②The same as in the preceding paragraph applies to the amount of the disability pension paid to a person who, on May 1, 1965, actually has the right to receive a disability pension whose pension amount was calculated pursuant to the provisions of Article 20, paragraph (2) or (4) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act, or to a person who actually has the right to receive a disability pension whose pension amount (excluding the additional pension amount) was calculated pursuant to the provisions of Article 4, paragraph (5) or (6) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the Employees' Pension Insurance Act (Act No. 17 of 1960).

③The same as in paragraph (1) applies to the basic amount of pension of the pension for surviving family paid to a person who, on May 1, 1965, actually has the right to receive a pension for surviving family whose basic amount of pension was calculated pursuant to the provisions of Article 21 of the Supplementary Provisions of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act or Article 4, paragraph (7) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the Employees' Pension Insurance Act (Act No. 17 of 1960).

①Among persons who, on May 1, 1965, actually have the right to receive insurance benefits that follow the example of the previous disability pension paid pursuant to the provisions of Article 16, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act, for the disability pension of a person who is in a state of disablement of grade 1 specified in Appended Table 1 of that Act, the amount (excluding the amount of benefits equivalent to the previous additional allowance) is 84,000 yen, and for the disability pension of any other person, the amount (excluding the amount of benefits equivalent to the previous additional allowance) is 67,200 yen.

②The Director-General of the Social Insurance Agency may examine the degree of disablement of a person who has the right to receive the disability pension prescribed in the preceding paragraph and, if the Director-General finds that the degree of disablement of a person whose pension amount (excluding the amount of benefits equivalent to the previous additional allowance; the same applies hereinafter in this paragraph and the following paragraph) is 84,000 yen does not fall under grade 1 specified in Appended Table 1 of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act, or finds that the degree of disablement of a person whose pension amount is 67,200 yen falls under grade 1 specified in Appended Table 1 of that Act, revise the amount of that person's pension to 67,200 yen or 84,000 yen, respectively.

③A person whose pension amount is 67,200 yen may request the Director-General of the Social Insurance Agency to revise the amount of that disability pension on the grounds that the degree of disablement has come to fall under grade 1 specified in Appended Table 1 of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act.

④The provisions of Article 52, paragraphs (3) and (4) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act apply mutatis mutandis to the request under the preceding paragraph or the revision of the pension amount pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1).

①With regard to the insurance benefits of a person who, on May 1, 1965, actually has the right to receive insurance benefits that follow the example of the previous pension for surviving family, widow's pension, widower's pension or orphan's pension paid pursuant to the provisions of Article 16, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act, the amount (excluding the amount of benefits equivalent to the previous additional allowance or increment) is 60,000 yen.

②The provisions of the preceding paragraph apply mutatis mutandis to the insurance benefits of a person who has come to have, on or after May 1, 1965, the right to receive insurance benefits that follow the example of the previous pension for surviving family, widow's pension, widower's pension or orphan's pension paid pursuant to the provisions of Article 16, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act.

With regard to the insurance benefits prescribed in the preceding three Articles that relate to months on or before April 1965 and to disability allowances, which have not yet been paid as of May 1, 1965, the provisions then in force continue to govern.

①With regard to an injury or illness of a person who contracted an illness or sustained an injury while a class 4 insured person before May 1, 1965, the provisions of Article 47 and Article 55 of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act as amended by this Act do not apply.

②If a person who was an insured dies on or after May 1, 1965 as a result of an illness or injury that arose while the person was a class 4 insured person before May 1, 1965, or an illness resulting from them, the provisions of Article 58 of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act do not apply to the surviving family of that person; provided, however, that this does not apply if the deceased person falls under item (i) or (iv) of paragraph (1) of that Article.

The provisions of Article 59-2 of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act as amended by this Act also apply to an insured or former insured who was on board a ship or an airplane, before the promulgation of this Act, when the ship or airplane sank, capsized, crashed, was destroyed, or went missing, or who was on board a ship or an airplane and went missing while it was sailing or flying, and for whom it is still not known at the time of the promulgation of this Act whether the person is alive or dead, or for whom it became clear within three months that the person has died but the time of death is still not known at the time of the promulgation of this Act.

A pension for surviving family whose payment is, as of the day of the promulgation of this Act, actually suspended pursuant to the provisions of Article 65 of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act prior to the amendment by this Act is to be paid from May 1965, notwithstanding the provisions of Article 36, paragraph (2) of that Act.

①With regard to the acquisition of the right to receive insurance benefits paid in accordance with the previous widow's pension, among the insurance benefits under the latter part of Article 16, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act, on or after the day of the promulgation of this Act, notwithstanding the relevant provisions of the former Employees' Pension Insurance Act (Act No. 60 of 1941), which are to be followed pursuant to the provisions of that paragraph, the provisions of Article 59, paragraph (1) (limited to the part concerning wives) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act as amended by this Act are followed.

②With regard to the extinguishment of the right to receive insurance benefits paid in accordance with the previous widow's pension, among the insurance benefits under Article 16, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act, on or after the day of the promulgation of this Act, notwithstanding the relevant provisions of the former Employees' Pension Insurance Act, which are to be followed pursuant to the provisions of that paragraph, the provisions of Article 63, paragraph (1) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act as amended by this Act are followed.

①To a person who lost status as a class 2 insured person within 13 years counted from the day of the promulgation of this Act, except where, at the time of losing that status, the person acquires the right to receive a withdrawal allowance under Article 9, paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending Related Acts to Establish an Aggregated Pension System (Act No. 182 of 1961; hereinafter referred to in this Article as the "Related Laws Arrangement Act"), a withdrawal allowance is paid in accordance with the provisions of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act prior to the amendment by the Related Laws Arrangement Act; provided, however, that this does not apply if, in a case where the withdrawal allowance is to be paid, the person who is to receive it has, at that time, the right to receive an aggregated old-age pension, or acquires the right to receive an aggregated old-age pension.

②The same as in the preceding paragraph applies to a person who acquired status as a class 2 insured person during the period from November 1, 1961 to the day before the day of the promulgation of this Act (excluding a person born on or before April 1, 1911), who is not an insured at the time of the promulgation of this Act and whose insured period is two years or more.

③The right to receive benefits from a withdrawal allowance under the provisions of the preceding two paragraphs ceases to exist when its beneficiary acquires the right to receive benefits from an aggregated old-age pension after the day of acquisition of that right.

④If a beneficiary of a withdrawal allowance under the provisions of paragraph (1) or paragraph (2) dies, the provisions of Article 37 of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act apply mutatis mutandis, notwithstanding the provisions of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act prior to the amendment by the Related Laws Arrangement Act, which are to be followed pursuant to those provisions.

With regard to insurance premiums for months on or before April 1965 (for a class 4 insured person, months on or before May 1965), the previous insurance premium rate continues to apply.

The provisions of Article 92, paragraph (2) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act as amended by this Act also apply to the period, before the promulgation of this Act, during which payment of the whole of the pension insurance benefits of a person who, at the time of the promulgation of this Act, actually has the right to receive pension insurance benefits was suspended.

With regard to a person who is actually using the name employees' pension Fund or employees' pension Fund federation on the day of enforcement of the provisions listed in the proviso of Article 1 of the Supplementary Provisions, the provisions of Article 109, paragraph (2) and Article 151, paragraph (2) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act as amended by this Act do not apply for six months from that day.

An employer may, even before the day of enforcement of the provisions listed in the proviso of Article 1 of the Supplementary Provisions, carry out the preparatory acts necessary for the establishment of an employees' pension Fund, such as drawing up articles of Association and applying for authorization of establishment.

②In the case of a female who acquired status as a member listed in the upper column of the table in the preceding paragraph on or after November 1, 1961, and whose period as a member is one year or more and less than 20 years, if she loses status as that member during the period from that day to the day before the day of the promulgation of this Act, the same as in that paragraph applies to her as well. In such a case, the phrase "date of retirement", "that day", or "the day on which grounds falling under the provisions of paragraph (1) arose" in the provisions listed in the lower column of the table is deemed to be replaced with "the day of the promulgation of the Act Partially Amending the Employees' Pension Insurance Act (Act No. 104 of 1965)".

③When a lump-sum retirement payment is paid pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, if there is an amount that was paid to the person as a lump-sum retirement payment in connection with the loss of status as a member prescribed in that paragraph, that amount is deemed to be a partial advance payment of the lump-sum retirement payment to be paid pursuant to the provisions of that paragraph.