①This Act comes into effect on the date of promulgation; provided, however, that the provisions in Article 1 amending Article 81, paragraph (5), item (iv) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act and the provisions in Article 2 amending Article 59, paragraph (5), item (iv) of the Mariners Insurance Act come into effect on November 1, 1980, and the provisions in Article 7 amending Article 87, paragraph (3) of the National Pension Act and the provisions of Article 53 of the Supplementary Provisions come into effect on April 1, 1981.

②The provisions set forth in the following items apply from the dates specified in those items:

With regard to the amount of pension insurance benefits under the Employees' Pension Insurance Act for months up to and including May 1980, the provisions then in force continue to govern.

①With regard to the standardized remuneration of a person who acquired the status of an insured covered by employees' pension insurance before October 1, 1980 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 persons who acquired the status of an insured during the period from July 1 to September 30 of that year, or persons whose standardized remuneration was revised from August or September of that year pursuant to the provisions of Article 23, paragraph (1) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act, and whose standardized monthly amount of remuneration in the same month of that year is 42,000 yen or less, or 320,000 yen (excluding a person for whom the monthly amount of remuneration that was the basis of that standardized monthly amount of remuneration is less than 330,000 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 that Act as amended by the provisions of Article 1.

②The standardized remuneration revised pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph is the standardized remuneration for each month from October 1980 to September 1981.

③Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 26 of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act, the standardized monthly amount of remuneration on or after November 1980 of a class 4 insured person under employees' pension insurance whose standardized monthly amount of remuneration is less than 45,000 yen is 45,000 yen.

With regard to a pension for surviving family of a person who, on any day during the period from August 1, 1980 through the day before the date of enforcement of this Act (hereinafter referred to as "the Effective Date"), has the right to receive a pension for surviving family to which an amount to be added pursuant to the provisions of Article 62-2 of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act has been added (limited to a person to whom that pension for surviving family is paid pursuant to the provisions of Article 38, paragraph (1) of that Act), for as long as it continues to be paid pursuant to the provisions of that paragraph, the phrase "additional amount of pension" in Article 38, paragraph (2) of that Act as amended by the provisions of Article 1 is deemed to be replaced with "additional amount of pension and the amount to be added pursuant to the provisions of Article 62-2 of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act prior to its amendment by the provisions of Article 1 of the Act Partially Amending the Employees' Pension Insurance Act, etc. (Act No. 82 of 1980)".

With regard to the payment of an old-age pension under Article 42, paragraph (1) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act as amended by the provisions of Article 1, for the period from June 1, 1980 through September 30 of that year, the phrase "Grade 20" in item (v) of that paragraph is deemed to be replaced with "Grade 25".

To an insured aged 60 or older and under 65 who, on June 1, 1980, actually satisfies the insured period prescribed in any of Article 42, paragraph (1), items (i) through (iii) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act as amended by the provisions of Article 1, and whose standardized remuneration grade is any of Grade 1 through Grade 25, an old-age pension under that paragraph is paid, deeming that person to fall under that paragraph even where the person does not.

With regard to an old-age pension or aggregated old-age pension paid to an insured who, on June 1, 1980, is actually a beneficiary of an old-age pension or aggregated old-age pension under the Employees' Pension Insurance Act and is 65 years of age or older, notwithstanding the provisions of Article 43, paragraph (5) of that Act as amended by the provisions of Article 1 (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 46-4, paragraph (3) of that Act), the period of having been an insured before the month in which the person reached the age of 65 is to be the basis for calculating the basic amount of pension, and the amount of the pension is revised from June of that year.

With regard to an old-age pension or aggregated old-age pension paid to an insured who, on June 1, 1980, is actually a beneficiary of an old-age pension or aggregated old-age pension under the Employees' Pension Insurance Act and is 70 years of age or older, notwithstanding the provisions of Article 43, paragraph (6) of that Act as amended by the provisions of Article 1 (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 46-4, paragraph (3) of that Act), the period of having been an insured before the month in which the person reached the age of 70 is to be the basis for calculating the basic amount of pension, and the amount of the pension is revised from June of that year.

With regard to the suspension of payment of an old-age pension under Article 46, paragraph (1) or (2) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act as amended by the provisions of Article 1, for the period from June 1, 1980 through September 30 of that year, the phrase "Grade 12" in paragraph (1) of that Article is deemed to be replaced with "Grade 17", the phrase "Grade 13 through Grade 17" with "Grade 18 through Grade 22", and the phrase "Grade 18 through Grade 20" with "Grade 23 through Grade 25", and the phrase "Grade 20" in paragraph (2) of that Article with "Grade 25".

With regard to an old-age pension or disability pension (excluding an old-age pension or disability pension whose payment is suspended in its entirety) of a person who, on any day during the period from June 1, 1980 through the day before the Effective Date, has the right to receive an old-age pension or disability pension under the Employees' Pension Insurance Act (limited to a person whose spouse is the basis for calculating the additional amount of pension of that old-age pension or disability pension and that spouse is able to receive payment of an old-age pension or disability pension under that Act (excluding an old-age pension or disability pension whose payment is suspended in its entirety)), the phrase "the portion equivalent to the additional amount of pension" in Article 46, paragraph (4) of that Act as amended by the provisions of Article 1 (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 54, paragraph (3) of that Act as amended by the provisions of Article 1) is deemed to be replaced with "the portion equivalent to the amount obtained by deducting 72,000 yen from the additional amount of pension"; provided, however, that this does not apply when the payment of that old-age pension or disability pension, or of the old-age pension or disability pension under that Act paid to the person's spouse, comes to be suspended in its entirety.

With regard to an old-age pension or disability pension (excluding an old-age pension or disability pension whose payment is suspended in its entirety) of a person who, on any day during the period from June 1, 1980 through the day before the Effective Date, has the right to receive an old-age pension or disability pension under the Employees' Pension Insurance Act (limited to a person whose spouse is the basis for calculating the additional amount of pension of that old-age pension or disability pension and that spouse is able to receive payment of the benefit specified by Cabinet Order prescribed in Article 46, paragraph (5) of that Act as amended by the provisions of Article 1 (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 54, paragraph (3) of that Act as amended by the provisions of Article 1; the same applies hereinafter in this Article) (excluding a benefit whose payment is suspended in its entirety; hereinafter in this Article referred to as "other public pension benefit")), the phrase "the portion equivalent to the additional amount of pension" in Article 46, paragraph (5) of that Act as amended by the provisions of Article 1 is deemed to be replaced with "the portion equivalent to the amount obtained by deducting 72,000 yen from the additional amount of pension"; provided, however, that this does not apply when the payment of that old-age pension or disability pension, or of the other public pension benefit paid to the person's spouse, comes to be suspended in its entirety.

With regard to the payment of an aggregated old-age pension under Article 46-3 of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act as amended by the provisions of Article 1, for the period from June 1, 1980 through September 30 of that year, the phrase "Grade 20" in item (iv) of that Article is deemed to be replaced with "Grade 25".

To an insured aged 60 or older and under 65 who, on June 1, 1980, actually has an insured period under the Employees' Pension Insurance Act of one year or more and has not satisfied the insured period necessary to receive an old-age pension under that Act, who falls under any of Article 46-3, item (i), (a) through (d) of that Act as amended by the provisions of Article 1, and whose standardized remuneration grade is any of Grade 1 through Grade 25, an aggregated old-age pension under that Article is paid, deeming that person to fall under that Article even where the person does not.

With regard to the suspension of payment of an aggregated old-age pension under Article 46-7, paragraph (1) or (2) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act as amended by the provisions of Article 1, for the period from June 1, 1980 through September 30 of that year, the phrase "Grade 12" in paragraph (1) of that Article is deemed to be replaced with "Grade 17", the phrase "Grade 13 through Grade 17" with "Grade 18 through Grade 22", and the phrase "Grade 18 through Grade 20" with "Grade 23 through Grade 25", and the phrase "Grade 20" in paragraph (2) of that Article with "Grade 25".

With regard to the amount to be added pursuant to the provisions of Article 62-2 of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act for months up to and including July 1980, the provisions then in force continue to govern.

With regard to a pension for surviving family of a person who, on any day during the period from August 1, 1980 through the day before the Effective Date, has the right to receive a pension for surviving family to which an amount to be added pursuant to the provisions of Article 62-2 of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act has been added (including insurance benefits that follow the example of the previous pension for surviving family and widow's pension paid pursuant to the provisions of Article 16, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of that Act, to which an amount to be added pursuant to the provisions of Article 62-2 of that Act as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 16 of the Supplementary Provisions of that Act has been added, and excluding a pension whose payment is suspended in its entirety; the same applies hereinafter in this Article) and who, on that day, is able to receive payment of the benefit specified by Cabinet Order prescribed in Article 65-2 of that Act as amended by the provisions of Article 1 (excluding a benefit whose payment is suspended in its entirety; hereinafter in this Article referred to as "other public pension benefit"), the phrase "the amount to be added" in Article 65-2 of that Act as amended by the provisions of Article 1 is deemed to be replaced with "the amount obtained by deducting the amount to be added pursuant to the provisions of Article 62-2 of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act prior to its amendment by the provisions of Article 1 of the Act Partially Amending the Employees' Pension Insurance Act, etc. (Act No. 82 of 1980) from the amount to be added"; provided, however, that this does not apply when the payment of that pension for surviving family, or of the other public pension benefit paid to that person, comes to be suspended in its entirety.

②The insurance premium rate of class 2 insured persons specified in Article 81, paragraph (5), item (ii) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act as amended by the provisions of Article 1 is to be raised in stages, as provided by Act, on or after June 1985, until it reaches the insurance premium rate of class 1 insured persons specified in item (i) of that paragraph.

With regard to the payment of an old-age pension under Article 12, paragraph (3) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act as amended by the provisions of Article 1, for the period from June 1, 1980 through September 30 of that year, the phrase "Grade 20" in that paragraph is deemed to be replaced with "Grade 25".

To an insured aged 60 or older and under 65 whose standardized remuneration grade is any of Grade 1 through Grade 25 and who, on June 1, 1980, actually has an insured period of 16 years or more based on the period of having been a class 3 insured person under the Former Employees' Pension Insurance Act (Act No. 60 of 1941) within a continuous period of 15 years, or an insured period of 16 years or more based on the period of having been a class 3 insured person under that Act and the period of having been a class 3 insured person under the Employees' Pension Insurance Act within a continuous period of 15 years, an old-age pension under Article 42, paragraph (1) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act as amended by the provisions of Article 1 is paid, deeming that person to fall under that paragraph even where the person does not.

With regard to the payment of a special old-age pension under Article 28-3, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act as amended by the provisions of Article 1, for the period from June 1, 1980 through September 30 of that year, the phrase "Grade 20" in item (iv) of that paragraph is deemed to be replaced with "Grade 25".

To an insured aged 60 or older and under 65 who, on June 1, 1980, actually has an insured period under the Employees' Pension Insurance Act of one year or more and has not satisfied the insured period necessary to receive an old-age pension under that Act, who falls under either (a) or (b) of Article 28-3, paragraph (1), item (i) of the Supplementary Provisions of that Act as amended by the provisions of Article 1, and whose standardized remuneration grade is any of Grade 1 through Grade 25, a special old-age pension under that paragraph is paid, deeming that person to fall under the provisions of that paragraph even where the person does not; provided, however, that this does not apply where the person has the right to receive an aggregated old-age pension under that Act.

①Where a person who, during the period from June 1, 1980 through the day before the Effective Date, made a request under Article 42, paragraph (2) or (3), Article 46-3, paragraph (2), Article 12, paragraph (3) of the Supplementary Provisions or Article 28-3, paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act prior to its amendment by the provisions of Article 1 finds that the amount of the old-age pension, aggregated old-age pension or special old-age pension under that Act as amended by the provisions of Article 1 that is to be paid to that person is less than the amount of that old-age pension, aggregated old-age pension or special old-age pension calculated on the assumption that the person acquired the right to receive it on the day of that request, and applies to the Director-General of the Social Insurance Agency during the period from the Effective Date through December 31, 1980, the provisions then in force continue to govern the acquisition or extinguishment of the right to receive the old-age pension, aggregated old-age pension or special old-age pension under that Act as amended by the provisions of Article 1 that is to be paid to that person for the period from June 1 of that year through the day before the Effective Date, notwithstanding the provisions of Article 42, paragraph (1), Article 45, Article 46-3, Article 46-6, Article 12, paragraph (3) of the Supplementary Provisions, and Article 28-3, paragraphs (1) and (5) of the Supplementary Provisions of that Act as amended by the provisions of Article 1, and the provisions of Article 6, Article 13, Article 19 and the preceding Article of the Supplementary Provisions.

②The provisions of Article 6, Article 13, Article 19 and the preceding Article of the Supplementary Provisions apply mutatis mutandis to a person who made the application under the preceding paragraph and who, on the day before the Effective Date, does not actually have the right to receive an old-age pension, aggregated old-age pension or special old-age pension under the Employees' Pension Insurance Act prior to its amendment by the provisions of Article 1. In this case, the phrase "June 1, 1980" in Articles 6, 13 and 19 of the Supplementary Provisions and the preceding Article is deemed to be replaced with "the Effective Date".

With regard to the payment of an aggregated old-age pension under Article 46-3 of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act pursuant to the provisions of Article 8 of the Supplementary Provisions of Act No. 182 as amended by the provisions of Article 6, for the period from June 1, 1980 through September 30 of that year, the phrase "Grade 20" in Article 8, paragraph (3) of the Supplementary Provisions of Act No. 182 as amended by the provisions of Article 6 is deemed to be replaced with "Grade 25".

To an insured under 65 years of age who, on June 1, 1980, actually is a person set forth in the upper column of the table in Article 8, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of Act No. 182 as amended by the provisions of Article 6, whose insured period on or after April 1, 1961 prescribed in that paragraph is, respectively, the period prescribed in the lower column of that table or more, who has not satisfied the insured period necessary to receive an old-age pension under the Employees' Pension Insurance Act, and whose standardized remuneration grade is any of Grade 1 through Grade 25, an aggregated old-age pension under Article 46-3 of that Act as amended by the provisions of Article 1 is paid, deeming that person to fall under that Article even where the person does not.

①Where a person who, during the period from June 1, 1980 through the day before the Effective Date, made a request under Article 8, paragraph (3) of the Supplementary Provisions of Act No. 182 prior to its amendment by the provisions of Article 6 finds that the amount of the aggregated old-age pension under the Employees' Pension Insurance Act as amended by the provisions of Article 1 that is to be paid to that person is less than the amount of that aggregated old-age pension calculated on the assumption that the person acquired the right to receive it on the day of that request, and applies to the Director-General of the Social Insurance Agency during the period from the Effective Date through December 31, 1980, the provisions then in force continue to govern the acquisition or extinguishment of the right to receive the aggregated old-age pension under that Act as amended by the provisions of Article 1 that is to be paid to that person for the period from June 1 of that year through the day before the Effective Date, notwithstanding the provisions of Article 46-6 of that Act as amended by the provisions of Article 1, the provisions of Article 8, paragraph (3) of the Supplementary Provisions of Act No. 182 as amended by the provisions of Article 6, and the provisions of the preceding Article.

②The provisions of the preceding Article apply mutatis mutandis to a person who made the application under the preceding paragraph and who, on the day before the Effective Date, does not actually have the right to receive an aggregated old-age pension under the Employees' Pension Insurance Act prior to its amendment by the provisions of Article 1. In this case, the phrase "June 1, 1980" in the preceding Article is deemed to be replaced with "the Effective Date".

Beyond what is provided for in these Supplementary Provisions, transitional measures necessary incidental to the enforcement of this Act are specified by Cabinet Order.

①Among persons who, on June 1, 1980, 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 a person who, on that day, is in a state of disability of a degree of severity specified in Appended Table 1 of that Act, a disability pension under Article 47, paragraph (1) of that Act is paid, deeming that person to fall under that paragraph.

②Among persons who, on June 1, 1980, 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 a person who, on that day, is not in a state of disability of a degree of severity specified in Appended Table 1 of that Act, when, after that day, the person has come to fall under a state of disability of a degree of severity specified in that Appended Table (limited to the period up to the day on which three years elapse, counting from the day, on or before that day, on which the person ceased to fall under a state of disability of a degree of severity specified in Appended Table 1 of the former Employees' Pension Insurance Act), a disability pension under Article 47, paragraph (1) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act is paid, deeming the person to fall under that paragraph.

③When a person who has 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 has acquired, pursuant to the provisions of the preceding two paragraphs, the right to receive a disability pension under Article 47, paragraph (1) of that Act, the right to receive the insurance benefits that follow the example of that previous disability pension is extinguished.

To a person who, with the death of a person falling under the provisions of paragraph (1) or (2) of the preceding Article as the grounds for payment, has acquired, by the day before the Effective Date, the right to receive insurance benefits paid pursuant to the provisions of Article 16, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act by following the example of the previous pension for surviving family, widow's pension, widower's pension or orphan's pension, the insurance benefits paid by following the example of that previous pension for surviving family, widow's pension, widower's pension or orphan's pension continue to be paid, and the pension for surviving family under Article 58 of that Act is not paid.

With regard to insurance benefits paid in connection with old age, disability or death under the Employees' Pension Insurance Act (limited to employees' old-age pensions, employees' disability pensions or employees' pensions for surviving family) of a person prescribed in Article 4, paragraph (1) or (2) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the Employees' Pension Insurance Act and the Mariners Insurance Act (Act No. 78 of 1969), a part of whose period of having been an insured covered by employees' pension insurance before October 1957 is a period of having been a class 3 insured person prescribed in Article 3, paragraph (1), item (v) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act prior to its amendment by the provisions of Article 3 of the Act Partially Amending the National Pension Act, etc. (Act No. 34 of 1985; hereinafter in this Article referred to as the "1985 Amendment Act") (including the period deemed to be that period of having been a class 3 insured person, or the period for which the provisions concerning that period are to apply mutatis mutandis, pursuant to the provisions of Article 4, paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act prior to that amendment, the 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 1985 Amendment Act, and the period deemed to be a period of having been an insured covered by employees' pension insurance pursuant to the provisions of Article 5, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the Employees' Pension Insurance Act, etc. (Act No. 82 of 1996) (limited to the period of having been a former mariner member prescribed in paragraph (2) of that Article); hereinafter in this Article referred to as the "period as a former class 3 insured person, etc."), if the amount of those insurance benefits (excluding the additional amount of pension prescribed in Article 44 of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 9-2, paragraph (3), Article 9-3, paragraphs (2) and (4) (including where followed pursuant to paragraph (5) of that Article) and Article 9-4, paragraphs (3) and (5) (including where followed pursuant to paragraph (6) of that Article) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act and Article 18, paragraph (3), Article 19, paragraphs (3) and (5), Article 20, paragraphs (3) and (5) and Article 27, paragraphs (13) and (14) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the National Pension Act, etc. (Act No. 95 of 1994); the same applies hereinafter in this Article) and Article 50-2 of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act, the amount to be added pursuant to the provisions of Article 62, paragraph (1) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act, and the amount to be added pursuant to the provisions of Article 73, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 1985 Amendment Act and Article 74, paragraphs (1) and (2) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 1985 Amendment Act) is less than the amount of those insurance benefits calculated by deeming the period as a former class 3 insured person, etc. before the month that includes the Effective Date to be a period of having been a former class 1 insured person (meaning a class 1 insured person prescribed in Article 3, paragraph (1), item (i) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act prior to its amendment by the provisions of Article 3 of the 1985 Amendment Act; hereinafter in this Article referred to as a "former class 1 insured person") (excluding the additional amount of pension prescribed in Article 44 and Article 50-2 of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act, the amount to be added pursuant to the provisions of Article 62, paragraph (1) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act, and the amount to be added pursuant to the provisions of Article 73, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 1985 Amendment Act and Article 74, paragraphs (1) and (2) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 1985 Amendment Act), then, at the person's request, the amount of those insurance benefits is to be calculated by deeming the period as a former class 3 insured person, etc. before the Effective Date to be a period of having been a former class 1 insured person, and the amount of those insurance benefits is revised from the month following the month that includes the day on which the request was made; provided, however, that this does not apply to an employees' old-age pension or employees' pension for surviving family (limited to one paid by reason of falling under Article 58, paragraph (1), item (iv) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act) for which the number of months of the insured period under employees' pension insurance that forms the basis for calculating its amount is less than 240 (excluding one paid by reason of falling under any of Article 12, paragraph (1), items (iv) through (vii) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 1985 Amendment Act).