In the case of applying the provisions of the preceding Article, the proviso to Article 47, paragraph (1) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act (including as applied mutatis mutandis in Article 47-2, paragraph (2), Article 47-3, paragraph (2), Article 52, paragraph (5), Article 54, paragraph (3) and Article 55, paragraph (2) of that Act; the same applies hereinafter in this Article) and the proviso to Article 58, paragraph (1) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act to a disability resulting from an injury or illness for which the day of initial examination falls before May 1, 1991, or to a person who died before that day, the phrase "the month two months before the month" in the preceding Article, in the proviso to Article 47, paragraph (1) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act and in the proviso to Article 58, paragraph (1) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act is deemed to be replaced with "the month preceding the most recent reference month (meaning January, April, July and October) before the month".

An employees' disability pension under Article 47-2, paragraph (1) of the new Employees' Pension Insurance Act is not paid, notwithstanding the provisions of Article 47-2, paragraph (1) of the new Employees' Pension Insurance Act, to a person who has at any time had the right to receive a disability pension under the former Employees' Pension Insurance Act (including one that the government as the executor of employees' pension insurance is to pay pursuant to the provisions of Article 87, paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisions) or a disability pension under the former National Pension Act for a disability resulting from the same injury or illness.

Necessary transitional measures for the application of the provisions of Articles 47 through 47-3 and Article 55 of the new Employees' Pension Insurance Act to a disability resulting from an injury or illness for which the day on which the person contracted the illness or suffered the injury falls before the Effective Date, or to a disability resulting from an injury or illness for which the day of initial examination falls before the Effective Date, are specified by Cabinet Order.

①Where a person who contracted an illness or suffered an injury due to a cause related to duty or while commuting during the period of being an insured under Mariners Insurance has, before the Effective Date, already passed one year and six months counting from the day of initial examination for that injury or illness, and that injury or illness has not healed, and on the Effective Date the person has a disability of a degree of severity that is classified as any of the disability grades prescribed in Article 47, paragraph (2) of the new Employees' Pension Insurance Act, the person is deemed to fall under the provisions of that Article, and the employees' disability pension under that Article is paid to the person. In this case, the phrase "the day of disability assessment for the disability that constitutes the grounds for payment of the relevant employees' disability pension" in Article 51 of that Act is deemed to be replaced with "April 1, 1986".

②Payment of an employees' disability pension paid pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph is suspended during the period in which its beneficiary has the right to receive a disability pension prescribed in Article 40, paragraph (2) of the former Mariners Insurance Act.

①The provisions of Article 48, paragraph (1), Article 49, paragraph (1) and Article 51 of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act apply mutatis mutandis where grounds have occurred for paying a further employees' disability pension (limited to the case of having a disability of a degree of severity that is classified as Grade 1 or Grade 2 of the disability grades prescribed in Article 47, paragraph (2) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act; the same applies in the following paragraph) to a person who is able to receive a disability pension under the former Employees' Pension Insurance Act for which the grounds for payment occurred before the Effective Date (including one that the government as the executor of employees' pension insurance is to pay pursuant to the provisions of Article 87, paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisions; the same applies in the following paragraph) and that is specified by Cabinet Order as equivalent to a basic disability pension.

②When grounds have occurred for paying a further basic disability pension or employees' disability pension to a person who is able to receive a disability pension under the former Employees' Pension Insurance Act for which the grounds for payment occurred before April 1, 1961 and that is specified by Cabinet Order as equivalent to a basic disability pension, the amount of the disability pension so specified by Cabinet Order is revised, in accordance with the severity of the disabilities stemming from a combination of the previous and subsequent disabilities, following the example of the provisions of Article 52 of the former Employees' Pension Insurance Act; provided, however, that where the newly acquired basic disability pension or employees' disability pension is one whose payment is to be suspended pursuant to the provisions of Article 36, paragraph (1) of the new National Pension Act or Article 54, paragraph (1) of the new Employees' Pension Insurance Act, this does not apply until the period for which it is to be suspended has elapsed.

With regard to the application of the provisions of Article 51 of the new Employees' Pension Insurance Act, for the time being, the phrase "the day of disability assessment for the disability that constitutes the grounds for payment of the relevant employees' disability pension (or, for" in that Article is deemed to be replaced with "the day of disability assessment for the disability that constitutes the grounds for payment of the relevant employees' disability pension (or, for the employees' disability pension under the provisions of Article 47-2, paragraph (1), whichever is the later of that day of disability assessment or March 31, 1986; or, for", the phrase "the days of disability assessment for each of the combined disabilities (or, for" with "the days of disability assessment for each of the combined disabilities (or, for a disability provided for in Article 47-2, paragraph (1), March 31, 1986 where that day of disability assessment falls before April 1, 1986; or, for", and the phrase "the day of disability assessment for the base disability provided for in that paragraph)" with "the day of disability assessment for the base disability provided for in that paragraph is to be used)".

①With regard to the application of the provisions of Article 56 of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act, pension insurance benefits under the former Employees' Pension Insurance Act (including pension insurance benefits that the government as the executor of employees' pension insurance is to pay pursuant to the provisions of Article 87, paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisions) are deemed to be pension insurance benefits under Article 56, item (i) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act.

②In applying the provisions of Article 56 of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act as amended by the provisions of Article 2 of the 1994 Amendment Act to the beneficiary of a disability pension under the former Employees' Pension Insurance Act (excluding a disability pension that the government as the executor of employees' pension insurance is to pay pursuant to the provisions of Article 87, paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisions) that is deemed, pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, to be a pension insurance benefit under Article 56, item (i) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act, the phrase "a disability of a degree of severity that is classified as any disability grade (having that disability is hereinafter referred to in this Article" in item (i) of that Article is deemed to be replaced with "a disability of the degree of severity specified in Appended Table 1 of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act prior to 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 item referred to as the '1985 Amendment Act') (hereinafter in this item referred to as the 'former Employees' Pension Insurance Act') (having that disability is hereinafter referred to in this item", and the phrase "employees' disability pension" in that item with "disability pension under the former Employees' Pension Insurance Act (excluding a disability pension that the government as the executor of employees' pension insurance is to pay pursuant to the provisions of Article 87, paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 1985 Amendment Act)".

③In applying the provisions of Article 56 of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act as amended by the provisions of Article 2 of the 1994 Amendment Act to the beneficiary of a disability pension that the government as the executor of employees' pension insurance is to pay pursuant to the provisions of Article 87, paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisions and that is deemed, pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1), to be a pension insurance benefit under Article 56, item (i) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act, the phrase "a disability of a degree of severity that is classified as any disability grade (having that disability is hereinafter referred to in this Article" in item (i) of that Article is deemed to be replaced with "a disability of the degree of severity for receiving a disability pension under the Mariners Insurance Act prior to amendment by the provisions of Article 5 of the Act Partially Amending the National Pension Act, etc. (Act No. 34 of 1985; hereinafter in this item referred to as the '1985 Amendment Act') (having that disability is hereinafter referred to in this item", and the phrase "employees' disability pension" in that item with "disability pension that the government as the executor of employees' pension insurance is to pay pursuant to the provisions of Article 87, paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 1985 Amendment Act".

④With regard to the application of the provisions of Article 56 of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act, for the time being, the phrase "benefits to be paid due to a disability pursuant to the provisions of the Mariners Insurance Act" in item (iii) of that Article is deemed to be replaced with "benefits to be paid due to a disability pursuant to the provisions of the Mariners Insurance Act (excluding those that the government as the executor of employees' pension insurance is to pay pursuant to the provisions of Article 87, paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the National Pension Act, etc. (Act No. 34 of 1985))".

①Necessary transitional measures concerning payment of an employees' pension for surviving family in the case where a beneficiary of a disability pension under the former Employees' Pension Insurance Act who is in a state of disability of Grade 1 or Grade 2 as provided for in Appended Table 1 of that Act, a person who, after losing the status of an insured under employees' pension insurance, died of an injury or illness that arose while the person was an insured under employees' pension insurance (limited to one that arose before the Effective Date) before the day on which five years elapse counting from the day of initial examination, a person born on or before April 1, 1926 who satisfies the insured period prescribed in any of Article 42, paragraph (1), items (i) through (iii) of that Act, or any other person specified by Cabinet Order dies on or after the Effective Date are specified by Cabinet Order.

②In applying the provisions of Article 59, paragraph (1) of the new Employees' Pension Insurance Act to the death of a person who died before April 1, 1996, the phrase "being 55 years of age or older" in item (i) of that paragraph is deemed to be replaced with "being 55 years of age or older, or having a disability classified as Grade 1 or Grade 2 of the disability grades".

③With regard to the cessation of an employees' pension for surviving family for the surviving family member prescribed in Article 59, paragraph (1) of the new Employees' Pension Insurance Act as read pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the provisions of Article 63, paragraph (3) of the former Employees' Pension Insurance Act remain in force. In this case, the phrase "Grade 1 or Grade 2 as provided for in Appended Table 1" in that paragraph is deemed to be replaced with "classified as Grade 1 or Grade 2 of the disability grades", and the phrase "60 years of age" with "55 years of age".

④While a husband, parent or grandparent who is a surviving family member prescribed in Article 59, paragraph (1) of the new Employees' Pension Insurance Act as read pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (2) has been continuously in a state of disability classified as Grade 1 or Grade 2 of the disability grades since the time the person acquired the right to receive benefits from an employees' pension for surviving family, the provisions of Article 65-2 of that Act do not apply to that person.

①When a beneficiary of an employees' pension for surviving family prescribed in Article 62, paragraph (1) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act who is listed in the upper column of Appended Table 9 of the Supplementary Provisions (limited to a person who was the wife of a deceased insured under employees' pension insurance or former insured) was 65 years of age or older at the time the person acquired that right, or when a beneficiary of an employees' pension for surviving family to which an amount has been added pursuant to the provisions of that paragraph who is listed in the upper column of that table reaches 65 years of age, the amount of that employees' pension for surviving family is, notwithstanding the provisions of Article 60, paragraph (1) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act, the amount arrived at by applying the provisions of that paragraph, treating the amount prescribed in item (i) of that paragraph as the amount obtained by adding to that amount the amount obtained by deducting the amount set forth in item (ii) of this paragraph from the amount set forth in item (i) of this paragraph; provided, however, that if the beneficiary of that employees' pension for surviving family holds the right to receive benefits from a basic disability pension under the National Pension Act or a disability pension under the former National Pension Act (excluding while payment of it is suspended), payment of the portion equivalent to the amount to be added is suspended during that time.

②In the case referred to in the preceding paragraph, the provisions of Article 65 of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act apply mutatis mutandis.

③When a beneficiary of an employees' pension for surviving family to which an amount has been added pursuant to the provisions of Article 62, paragraph (1) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act reaches 65 years of age, the revision of the amount of pension under the provisions of paragraph (1) is made from the month following the month that includes the day on which the person reaches 65 years of age.