①The provisions of Article 15, paragraph (1) of the former Employees' Pension Insurance Act remain in force with respect to a person who, on the day preceding the Effective Date, was an insured covered by employees' pension insurance pursuant to the provisions of that paragraph and who does not fall under any of the following items; provided, however, that this does not apply on or after the time when that person loses the status of an insured covered by employees' pension insurance pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (9):

②If a person who falls under any of the following items and whose insured period covered by employees' pension insurance (including the period pertaining to a period deemed to have been a period as an insured covered by employees' pension insurance pursuant to the provisions of Article 47, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions or other laws and regulations; the same applies hereinafter in this Article) is 10 years or more has ceased to be an insured covered by employees' pension insurance, and that insured period has not reached 20 years (excluding the case of falling under Article 12, paragraph (1), items (iv) through (vii) of the Supplementary Provisions), that person may become an insured covered by employees' pension insurance by applying to the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare; provided, however, that for a person who falls under item (i), item (ii) or item (iv), this applies only where the entire period from the month that includes the Effective Date to the month preceding the month that includes the day on which the person ceased to be an insured covered by employees' pension insurance is an insured period covered by employees' pension insurance (including the case where the month that includes the day on which the person ceased to be an insured covered by employees' pension insurance is the month that includes the Effective Date):

③The application under the preceding paragraph must be made within six months from the day on which the person lost the status of an insured covered by employees' pension insurance; provided, however, that the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare may accept an application made after the expiry of this period if the Minister finds that there is a legitimate reason.

④A person who has made the application under paragraph (2) is, when the application is accepted, to acquire the status of an insured covered by employees' pension insurance on whichever of the day on which the person lost the status of an insured covered by employees' pension insurance pertaining to the application or the day on which the application was accepted the person chooses; provided, however, that if the person was an insured covered by employees' pension insurance on the day on which the application was accepted, the person is to acquire the status of an insured covered by employees' pension insurance on the day on which the person lost the status of an insured covered by employees' pension insurance pertaining to the application.

⑤If a person who was able to make the application under Article 15, paragraph (1) of the former Employees' Pension Insurance Act on the day preceding the Effective Date (excluding a person who was required, pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (2) of that Article, to make the application under paragraph (1) of that Article by that day) and who had not made the application under that paragraph was, on the Effective Date, neither an insured covered by employees' pension insurance nor a member, that person may become an insured covered by employees' pension insurance by applying to the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare.

⑥The provisions of paragraph (3) apply mutatis mutandis to the application under the preceding paragraph, and the provisions of paragraph (4) apply mutatis mutandis to a person who has made the application under the preceding paragraph. In this case, the phrase "the day on which the person lost the status of an insured covered by employees' pension insurance pertaining to the application" in paragraph (4) is deemed to be replaced with "the Effective Date".

⑦With regard to an insured covered by employees' pension insurance pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) and a person who has acquired the status of an insured covered by employees' pension insurance pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (2) or paragraph (5), the provisions of Article 15, paragraph (4) of the former Employees' Pension Insurance Act remain in force.

⑧A class 4 insured person may at any time lose the status of an insured covered by employees' pension insurance by applying to the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare.

⑨A class 4 insured person loses the status of an insured covered by employees' pension insurance on the day following the day on which the person comes to fall under any of the following items (or, in the case of coming to fall under item (iii), on that day):

⑩With regard to class 4 insured persons, the provisions of the proviso to Article 18, paragraph (1) of the former Employees' Pension Insurance Act remain in force.

⑪Among persons born on or before April 1, 1921, a person who was an insured under Mariners Insurance on the day preceding the Effective Date and who is employed on the Effective Date on a ship prescribed in Article 6, paragraph (1), item (iii) of the new Employees' Pension Insurance Act, or a person who was an insured under Mariners Insurance pursuant to the provisions of Article 20 of the former Mariners Insurance Act on the day preceding the Effective Date and who fell under item (ii) of paragraph (1) of the following Article (excluding a person who fell under item (i) of that paragraph), is deemed, for the purpose of applying the provisions of paragraph (2), to have acquired the status of an insured under employees' pension insurance on the Effective Date and to have lost the status of an insured on the same day.

⑫With regard to class 4 insured persons, the provisions of Articles 81-2 and 81-2-2 of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act do not apply.