This Act comes into effect on April 1, 1997.

①The Act on Special Measures for Adjusting the Cost Burden among Employees' Pension Systems (Act No. 87 of 1989) is repealed.

②With regard to the adjustment grants and adjustment contributions under the provisions of the Act on Special Measures for Adjusting the Cost Burden among Employees' Pension Systems prior to its repeal under the provisions of the preceding paragraph (referred to as the "former Inter-System Adjustment Act" in the following paragraph and Article 82 of the Supplementary Provisions) for fiscal years 1996 and earlier, the provisions then in force continue to govern.

③The provisions of the former Inter-System Adjustment Act remain in force with regard to the amount required for benefits in the form of pensions that have old age or retirement as the grounds for payment, for the months of February 1997 and March 1997, paid by the government as the administrator of employees' pension insurance, the mutual aid Associations organized by law, and the surviving Associations prescribed in Article 32, paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisions. In this case, Cabinet Order provides for the necessary technical replacement of terms.

In this Article through Article 10 of the Supplementary Provisions, and in Articles 12 and 13, Articles 15 through 19, Articles 21 through 27, Articles 29 through 33, Articles 35, 37 and 38, Articles 40 through 43, and Articles 45, 46, 49, 54, 59, 61, 64, 66, 67 and 119 of the Supplementary Provisions, the meanings of the terms set forth in the following items are as prescribed in those items:

A person who was born on or after April 2, 1932 and who was a member of a former applicable corporation mutual aid Association on the day preceding the day on which this Act comes into effect (hereinafter referred to as the "Effective Date"), and who is employed on the Effective Date at a place of business or office of a former applicable corporation (meaning an applicable corporation prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (1), item (vii) of the pre-amendment National Public Officers Mutual Aid Act; the same applies hereinafter) or of a designated corporation prescribed in Article 111-6, paragraph (1) of the pre-amendment National Public Officers Mutual Aid Act, that is an applicable place of business prescribed in Article 6, paragraph (1) or (3) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act (excluding a person who acquires the status of an insured covered by employees' pension insurance on the Effective Date pursuant to the provisions of Article 13 of that Act), acquires the status of an insured covered by employees' pension insurance on the Effective Date.

①A period of former applicable corporation mutual aid membership is deemed to be a category I EPI insured period prescribed in Article 2-5, paragraph (1), item (i) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act (hereinafter referred to as a "category I EPI insured period"); provided, however, that this does not apply to the following periods:

②With regard to the period of former applicable corporation mutual aid membership that is deemed to be a category I EPI insured period pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, when calculating the insured period under employees' pension insurance for the period during which the person was a former mariner member prescribed in Article 32, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 1985 National Public Officers Mutual Aid Amendment Act before the day on which the 1985 National Public Officers Mutual Aid Amendment Act came into effect, the period obtained by multiplying that period by 4/3 is treated as the insured period under employees' pension insurance.

③With regard to the period of former applicable corporation mutual aid membership that is deemed to be a category I EPI insured period pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1), when calculating the insured period under employees' pension insurance for the period during which the person was a new mariner member prescribed in Article 32, paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 1985 National Public Officers Mutual Aid Amendment Act, from the day on which the 1985 National Public Officers Mutual Aid Amendment Act came into effect through March 31, 1991, the period obtained by multiplying that period by 6/5 is treated as the insured period under employees' pension insurance.

The standard monthly remuneration under the National Public Officers, etc. Mutual Aid Association Act Before the Amendment for each month of a period as a member of a former applicable corporation mutual aid Association before the Effective Date (excluding a period added to a period as a member of a former applicable corporation mutual aid Association pursuant to the provisions of Article 32, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 1985 National Public Officers Mutual Aid Amendment Act) (for a period before April 1, 1986, the amount calculated in the same manner as under the provisions of Article 9 of the Supplementary Provisions of the 1985 National Public Officers Mutual Aid Amendment Act) is deemed to be the standard monthly remuneration under the Employees' Pension Insurance Act for that month.

①Except as otherwise provided in these Supplementary Provisions, the following dispositions, procedures and other acts (limited to dispositions, procedures and other acts concerning a person who has a period as a member of a former applicable corporation mutual aid Association) are deemed to be dispositions, procedures and other acts carried out under the corresponding provisions of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act or orders based on it:

②When the provisions of Article 3, paragraph (1), items (i) and (iii) of the Act on Social Insurance Examiners and the Examination Committee of Social Insurance (Act No. 206 of 1953) are applied to the dispositions set forth in the items of the preceding paragraph that are deemed to be dispositions under the Employees' Pension Insurance Act pursuant to the provisions of that paragraph, the phrase "taken by the Japan Pension Service (hereinafter referred to as 'JPS')" in Article 3, paragraph (1), item (i) of the Act on Social Insurance Examiners and the Examination Committee of Social Insurance is deemed to be replaced with "deemed, pursuant to the provisions of Article 7, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the Employees' Pension Insurance Act, etc. (Act No. 82 of 1996; hereinafter referred to as the '1996 Amendment Act'), to have been taken by the Japan Pension Service (hereinafter referred to as 'JPS')", the phrase "the regional bureau of health and welfare having jurisdiction over the location of the office of JPS that handled the affairs relating to that disposition (where a pension office (meaning a pension office prescribed in Article 29 of the Japan Pension Organization Act (Act No. 109 of 2007); the same applies hereinafter in this paragraph and Article 5, paragraph (2)) handled those affairs, the secondary office (meaning a secondary office prescribed in Article 4, paragraph (2) of that Act; the same applies hereinafter in this paragraph and Article 5, paragraph (2)) in which that pension office shares a part of its duties; and where there is an office of JPS through which the requester for administrative review went regarding that disposition, that office of JPS through which the requester went (where the requester went through a pension office, the secondary office in which that pension office shares a part of its duties))" with "the regional bureau of health and welfare having jurisdiction over the requester's address", the phrase "taken by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare" in Article 3, paragraph (1), item (iii) of the Act on Social Insurance Examiners and the Examination Committee of Social Insurance with "deemed, pursuant to the provisions of Article 7, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 1996 Amendment Act, to have been taken by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare", and the phrase "the regional bureau of health and welfare or office of JPS through which the requester for administrative review went regarding that disposition (where the requester went through a secondary office, that secondary office (where the requester went through a pension office, the secondary office in which that pension office shares a part of its duties)), or" with "the regional bureau of health and welfare having jurisdiction over the requester's address, or".