This Act comes into effect on January 1, 2010.

The provisions of Article 87, paragraph (1) and Article 17-14 of the Supplementary Provisions of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act as revised by this Act, Article 87, paragraph (1) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act before the revision by the provisions of Article 1 of the Act Partially Amending the Employees' Pension Insurance Act, etc. for Ensuring the Soundness and Reliability of the Public Pension System (Act No. 63 of 2013; hereinafter referred to as the "2013 Amendment Act"), as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 141, paragraph (1) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act before the revision by the provisions of Article 1 of the 2013 Amendment Act, which remains in force pursuant to the provisions of Article 5, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 2013 Amendment Act (including where the example of those provisions is followed pursuant to Article 2, paragraph (8) of the Act on Special Provisions for Insurance Benefit and Insurance Premium Payment in Relation to Employee's Pension Insurance (Act No. 131 of 2007; hereinafter referred to as the "Employees' Pension Special Provisions Act"), Article 5, paragraph (8) of the Employees' Pension Special Provisions Act before the revision by the provisions of Article 140 of the Supplementary Provisions of the 2013 Amendment Act, which remains in force pursuant to the provisions of Article 141, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 2013 Amendment Act, or Article 8, paragraph (8) of the Employees' Pension Special Provisions Act before the revision by the provisions of Article 140 of the Supplementary Provisions of the 2013 Amendment Act, which remains in force pursuant to the provisions of Article 141, paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 2013 Amendment Act, or pursuant to Article 22, paragraph (1) of the Child Allowance Act (Act No. 73 of 1971)), Article 97, paragraph (1) of the National Pension Act (including where applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 134-2, paragraph (1) of that Act) and Article 9-2-5 of the Supplementary Provisions of that Act, Article 20-9, paragraphs (4) and (5) of the Supplementary Provisions of the National Public Officers Mutual Aid Association Act, Article 144-13, paragraph (3) and Article 34-2 of the Supplementary Provisions of the Local Public Officers, etc. Mutual Aid Association Act, Article 30, paragraph (3) and paragraph (35) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Private School Personnel Mutual Aid Association Act, Article 87, paragraph (1) and Article 17-14 of the Supplementary Provisions of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 22, paragraph (1) of the Coal Mining Pension Fund Act, Article 87, paragraph (1) and Article 17-14 of the Supplementary Provisions of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 57, paragraph (4) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act to Abolish, etc. the Mutual Aid Association Act for Employees of Agricultural, Forestry and Fishery Organizations, etc. for the Purpose of Integrating the Employees' Pension Insurance System and the Mutual Aid Association System for Employees of Agricultural, Forestry and Fishery Organizations (hereinafter referred to as the "2001 Integration Act"), Article 56, paragraph (1) and Article 3-2 of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act on the Farmers Pension Fund, Independent Administrative Agency, Article 181, paragraph (1) and Article 9 of the Supplementary Provisions of the Health Insurance Act, Article 133, paragraph (1) and Article 10 of the Supplementary Provisions of the Mariners Insurance Act, Article 28, paragraph (1) and Article 12 of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act on the Collection, etc. of Insurance Premiums of Labor Insurance (hereinafter referred to as the "Labor Insurance Premium Collection Act"), Article 28, paragraph (1) and Article 12 of the Supplementary Provisions of the Labor Insurance Premium Collection Act as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 19, paragraph (3) of the Act on the Re-arrangement of Relevant Acts Necessitated by the Enforcement of the Unemployment Insurance Act, the Act for Partially Revising the Workers' Accident Compensation Insurance Act and the Act on the Collection, etc. of the Insurance Premiums of Labor Insurance (hereinafter referred to as the "Arrangement Act"), and Article 28, paragraph (1) and Article 12 of the Supplementary Provisions of the Labor Insurance Premium Collection Act as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 38, paragraph (1) of the Act on Asbestos Health Damage Relief (hereinafter referred to as the "Asbestos Health Damage Relief Act") apply, respectively, to delinquency charges pertaining to the following whose due date or payment due date arrives on or after the day on which this Act comes into effect: the insurance premiums for employees' pension insurance and the contributions to an employees' pension Fund prescribed in Article 3, item (xii) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 2013 Amendment Act (including monies collected under the provisions of Article 140, paragraph (1) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act before the revision by the provisions of Article 1 of the 2013 Amendment Act, which remains in force pursuant to the provisions of Article 5, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 2013 Amendment Act), the special payment premiums prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (2) of the Employees' Pension Special Provisions Act, the amount equivalent to the unpaid contributions prescribed in Article 4, paragraph (1) of the Employees' Pension Special Provisions Act before the revision by the provisions of Article 140 of the Supplementary Provisions of the 2013 Amendment Act, which remains in force pursuant to the provisions of Article 141, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 2013 Amendment Act, and the special contributions prescribed in Article 8, paragraph (2) of the Employees' Pension Special Provisions Act before the revision by the provisions of Article 140 of the Supplementary Provisions of the 2013 Amendment Act, which remains in force pursuant to the provisions of Article 141, paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 2013 Amendment Act, the contributions under Article 20, paragraph (1) of the Child Allowance Act, the National Pension insurance premiums and the contributions to a National Pension Fund, the contributions and burden charges to be paid to the Japan Post Mutual Aid Association prescribed in Article 20-4, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the National Public Officers Mutual Aid Association Act, the contributions and burden charges to be paid by the organization prescribed in Article 144-3, paragraph (1) of the Local Public Officers, etc. Mutual Aid Association Act, the contributions under the provisions of the Private School Personnel Mutual Aid Association Act, the contributions to a coal mining pension Fund, the special operations burden charges prescribed in Article 57, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 2001 Integration Act, the farmers' pension insurance premiums, the health insurance premiums, the Mariners Insurance premiums, the labor insurance premiums prescribed in Article 10, paragraph (2) of the Labor Insurance Premium Collection Act, the special insurance premiums under Article 19, paragraph (1) of the Arrangement Act, and the general contributions prescribed in Article 37, paragraph (1) of the Asbestos Health Damage Relief Act (hereinafter referred to as "insurance premiums and other such monies"), and the provisions then in force continue to govern delinquency charges pertaining to insurance premiums and other such monies whose due date or payment due date arrives before that day.

If this Act and the Japan Pension Organization Act or the Act Partially Amending the Employment Insurance Act, etc. (Act No. 30 of 2007) each contain a provision amending the same provision of a law, and those amending provisions come into effect on the same day, the provisions of that law are to be amended first by the Japan Pension Organization Act or the Act Partially Amending the Employment Insurance Act, etc., and then amended by this Act.