①This Act comes into effect on the date of promulgation; provided, however, that the provisions amending Article 81, paragraph (5), item (iv) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act in Article 1 and the provisions amending Article 59, paragraph (5), item (iii) of the Mariners Insurance Act in Article 2 come into effect on January 1, 1970.

②The following provisions apply from November 1, 1969:

①With regard to the standardized remuneration of a person who acquired the status of an insured before November 1, 1969 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 and a person whose standardized remuneration is to be revised from that month), among those persons whose standard monthly remuneration in October of that year is 7,000 yen, 8,000 yen or 9,000 yen, or 60,000 yen (excluding a person whose monthly amount of remuneration is less than 62,000 yen), the prefectural governor revises the standardized remuneration by deeming the monthly amount of remuneration that was the basis of that standard monthly remuneration to be the monthly amount of remuneration that is the basis of the standardized remuneration under the provisions of Article 20 of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act as amended by this Act.

②The standardized remuneration revised pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph is the standardized remuneration for each month from November 1969 to September 1970.

③Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 26 of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act, the standard monthly remuneration on or after January 1970 of a class 4 insured person whose standard monthly remuneration is less than 10,000 yen is 10,000 yen.

In the case where the average standardized monthly amount of remuneration is calculated, with respect to a person who was an insured covered by employees' pension insurance before November 1, 1969, for the insurance benefits paid to a person who has come to have the right to receive insurance benefits on or after that day, if any of the standard monthly remuneration forming the basis of that calculation is less than 10,000 yen, that amount is to be 10,000 yen.

①With regard to a person who was an insured before October 1, 1957 and whose period of having been an insured from that day to July 31, 1976 (including a period deemed to be a period of having been an insured covered by employees' pension insurance pursuant to the provisions of Article 47, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the National Pension Act, etc. (Act No. 34 of 1985; hereinafter referred to as the "1985 Amendment Act"), Article 5, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the Employees' Pension Insurance Act, etc. (Act No. 82 of 1996) or Article 6 of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act to Abolish, etc. the Mutual Aid Association Act for Employees of Agricultural, Forestry and Fishery Organizations, etc. for the Purpose of Integrating the Employees' Pension Insurance System and the Mutual Aid Association System for Employees of Agricultural, Forestry and Fishery Organizations (Act No. 101 of 2001); the same applies hereinafter in this Article) is three years or more (where there is a period of having been an insured that, pursuant to the provisions of Article 51 of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act, is not used as the basis for calculating the amount of an employees' disability pension, a person for whom the period excluding that period is three years or more), when the pension amount is calculated for the insurance benefits paid to a person who has come to have the right to receive insurance benefits on or after November 1, 1969 (limited to a person prescribed in Article 20, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the National Pension Act, etc. (Act No. 18 of 2000; hereinafter in this Article referred to as the "2000 Amendment Act"); the same applies in the following paragraph), notwithstanding the provisions of Article 20, paragraph (1), item (i) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 2000 Amendment Act, the period of having been an insured before October 1, 1957 is not used as the basis for calculating the average standardized monthly amount of remuneration (meaning the average standardized monthly amount of remuneration prescribed in Article 43, paragraph (1) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act prior to its amendment by the provisions of Article 6 of the 2000 Amendment Act; the same applies in the following paragraph).

②With regard to a person whose period of having been an insured from October 1, 1957 to July 31, 1976 is less than three years and whose period of having been an insured up to that day is three years or more, when the pension amount is calculated for the insurance benefits paid to a person who has come to have the right to receive insurance benefits on or after November 1, 1969, notwithstanding the provisions of Article 20, paragraph (1), item (i) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 2000 Amendment Act, the periods of having been an insured up to July 31, 1976 other than the most recent three years are not used as the basis for calculating the average standardized monthly amount of remuneration.

With regard to the pension insurance benefits paid to a person who, on November 1, 1969, 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 as amended by this Act and the provisions of Article 3 of the Supplementary Provisions through the preceding Article.