①An employees' disability pension under the provisions of Article 47-2, paragraph (1) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act is not paid, notwithstanding the provisions of that paragraph, to a person who has previously held the right to receive benefits from a pension benefit under the National Public Officers, etc. Mutual Aid Association Act Before the Amendment or the Former National Public Officers, etc. Mutual Aid Association Act for which disability is the grounds for payment (including those deemed to be those pensions pursuant to the provisions of other laws and regulations; the same applies hereinafter) with regard to a disability caused by the same injury or illness, or to any other person specified by Cabinet Order.

②If a person who has previously held, before the Effective Date, the right to receive benefits from a pension benefit under the National Public Officers, etc. Mutual Aid Association Act Before the Amendment or the Former National Public Officers, etc. Mutual Aid Association Act for which disability is the grounds for payment and who has a period as a member of a former applicable corporation mutual aid Association (excluding a person who holds the right to receive benefits from that benefit on the Effective Date and a person who holds the right to receive benefits from a disability mutual aid pension under the National Public Officers, etc. Mutual Aid Association Act Before the Amendment that is paid pursuant to the provisions of Article 8, paragraph (1) or (2) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the National Public Officers, etc. Mutual Aid Association Act, etc. (Act No. 98 of 1994) with regard to the injury or illness that was the grounds for payment of that benefit) has, due to the injury or illness that was the grounds for payment of that benefit, a disability of a degree of severity that is classified as a disability grade prescribed in Article 47, paragraph (2) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act (hereinafter simply referred to as the "disability grade" in this paragraph) on the Effective Date, or comes to have a disability of a degree of severity that is classified as a disability grade during the period from the day following the Effective Date to the day preceding the day on which the person reaches 65 years of age, the person may claim payment of the employees' disability pension under paragraph (1) of that Article during the period from the Effective Date (or, for a person who does not have a disability of a degree of severity that is classified as a disability grade on the Effective Date, from when the person comes to have a disability of a degree of severity that is classified as a disability grade) to the day preceding the day on which the person reaches 65 years of age.

③When a claim under the preceding paragraph is made, notwithstanding the provisions of Article 47, paragraph (1) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act, the employees' disability pension under that paragraph is paid to the person who made the claim.