This Act comes into effect on November 1, 1971; provided, however, that the provisions amending Articles 37 and 136 and Article 164, paragraph (1) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act in Article 1, the provisions amending Article 23, paragraph (1) of the Mariners Insurance Act in Article 2 (limited to the part adding "(for a pension for surviving family payable on account of falling under Article 50, item (iii), (d), the spouse, children, parents, grandchildren, grandparents and siblings of an insured or of a person who was an insured)" after "grandparents" in that paragraph) and the provisions amending Article 23, paragraph (2) and Article 27-2, paragraph (3) of that Act, the provisions of Article 4, and the provisions amending Article 19, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the Mariners Insurance Act (Act No. 105 of 1965) in Article 5 come into effect on the date of promulgation, and the provisions amending Article 4, paragraph (1) of the Mariners Insurance Act in Article 2 come into effect on October 1 of the same year.

①With regard to the standardized remuneration of a person who acquired the status of an insured before November 1, 1971 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 standardized monthly amount of remuneration in October of that year is 100,000 yen, the prefectural governor revises the standardized remuneration by deeming the monthly amount of remuneration that was the basis of that standardized monthly amount of 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 1971 to September 1972.

When a person who receives payment of two or more pension insurance benefits prescribed in Article 11, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the Employees' Pension Insurance Act and the Mariners Insurance Act (Act No. 78 of 1969), pursuant to the provisions of that paragraph, comes to have the right to receive another pension insurance benefit (excluding a pension insurance benefit whose payment is suspended in its entirety), the two or more pension insurance benefits are paid to that person, and payment of the other pension insurance benefit is suspended, at that person's choice and notwithstanding the provisions of Article 38 of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act as amended by this Act.

With regard to the pension insurance benefits paid to a person who, on November 1, 1971, actually has the right to receive pension insurance benefits under the Employees' Pension Insurance Act, except as provided for in the following Article and Article 6 of the Supplementary Provisions, the amount is the amount calculated pursuant to the provisions of Articles 34, 50 and 60 of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act as amended by this Act.

①Among persons who, on November 1, 1971, 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 165,000 yen, and for the disability pension of any other person, the amount (excluding the amount of benefits equivalent to the previous additional allowance) is 132,000 yen.

②A person whose pension amount (excluding the amount of benefits equivalent to the previous additional allowance) is 132,000 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.

③The 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 November 1, 1971, 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 105,600 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 November 1, 1971, 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 amount of insurance benefits prescribed in the preceding three Articles for months up to and including October 1971, and the amounts of disability allowances under employees' pension insurance that have not yet been paid as of November 1 of that year, the provisions then in force continue to govern.

The provisions of Article 59, paragraph (1) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act as amended by this Act also apply to the surviving family of a person who was an insured whose whereabouts became unknown before November 1, 1971 and who is deemed to have died on or after that day by reason of an adjudication of disappearance.

The payment of the aggregated old-age pension to a person who has acquired, on November 1, 1971, the right to receive an aggregated old-age pension under Article 46-3, paragraph (1) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act or Article 39-2, paragraph (1) of the Mariners Insurance Act pursuant to the provisions of Article 7, paragraph (1) or Article 13, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending Related Acts to Establish the Aggregated Pension System as amended by this Act starts from November of that year.