Necessary transitional measures in the case of applying the provisions of Articles 47 through 47-3 and Article 55 of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act to a disability due to an injury or illness for which the day of contracting the illness or sustaining the injury is before the Effective Date, or to a disability due to an injury or illness for which the day of initial examination is before the Effective Date (limited to a disability due to an injury or illness during the former National Public Servants Mutual Aid Association member period, former Local Public Servants Mutual Aid Association member period or former Private School Personnel Mutual Aid participant period) are specified by Cabinet Order.

Necessary transitional measures concerning the payment of an employees' pension for surviving family under the Employees' Pension Insurance Act, in the case where a beneficiary of any of the following benefits in the form of a pension (excluding those having death as the grounds for payment) or any other person, who is specified by Cabinet Order, dies on or after the Effective Date, are specified by Cabinet Order:

In the case of applying the provisions of Articles 44 and 62 of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act and other provisions of laws and regulations specified by Cabinet Order as corresponding to those provisions to a person who, on the day preceding the Effective Date, had the right to receive a benefit in the form of a pension set forth in the items of Article 11, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions (limited to a person for whom the number of months of the period forming the basis for calculating the amount of that benefit in the form of a pension is less than 240) and who has acquired the right to receive an employees' old-age pension on or after the Effective Date, the phrase "an insured period of 240 months or more" in Article 44, paragraph (1) of that Act is deemed to be replaced with "an insured period (meaning the insured period obtained by adding together the former National Public Servants Mutual Aid Association member period deemed to be an insured period pursuant to the provisions of Article 7, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the Employees' Pension Insurance Act, etc. to Unify, etc. the Employees' Pension Systems (Act No. 63 of 2012; hereinafter referred to as the "2012 Pension Unification Act") (including a period counted into that former National Public Servants Mutual Aid Association member period pursuant to the provisions of other laws and regulations), former Local Public Servants Mutual Aid Association member period (including a period counted into that former Local Public Servants Mutual Aid Association member period pursuant to the provisions of other laws and regulations) or former Private School Personnel Mutual Aid participant period and the insured period forming the basis for calculating the amount of that employees' old-age pension; the same applies hereinafter in this paragraph) of 240 months or more", and the phrase "insured period" in Article 62, paragraph (1) of that Act is deemed to be replaced with "insured period (meaning the insured period obtained by adding together the former National Public Servants Mutual Aid Association member period deemed to be an insured period pursuant to the provisions of Article 7, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 2012 Pension Unification Act (including a period counted into that former National Public Servants Mutual Aid Association member period pursuant to the provisions of other laws and regulations), former Local Public Servants Mutual Aid Association member period (including a period counted into that former Local Public Servants Mutual Aid Association member period pursuant to the provisions of other laws and regulations) or former Private School Personnel Mutual Aid participant period and the insured period forming the basis for calculating the amount of that employees' pension for surviving family)"; in addition, the technical replacement of terms necessary for the application of these provisions and other necessary matters are specified by Cabinet Order.

Beyond what is provided for in Articles 14 and 15 of the Supplementary Provisions, necessary transitional measures concerning the application of the provisions on the calculation of the amount of benefits and the suspension of their payment under the Employees' Pension Insurance Act, the former Employees' Pension Insurance Act and other laws specified by Cabinet Order, for persons who have spent time as an insured in two or more categories prescribed in Article 78-22 of the Amended Employees' Pension Insurance Act, are specified by Cabinet Order.

①In the case of calculating the amount of a lump-sum withdrawal payment under the provisions of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act for a person who has a category II EPI insured period, if October of the year preceding the year that includes the final month prescribed in Article 29, paragraph (4) of the Supplementary Provisions of that Act (if that final month is from January through August, October of the year before the preceding year) falls within the period from 2013 through 2017, the insurance premium rate forming the basis for calculating that lump-sum withdrawal payment is, notwithstanding the provisions of Article 81, paragraph (4) of that Act, for the month of October 2013 the rate obtained by multiplying the contribution rate of national public officers' mutual aid for that month (meaning the proportion prescribed in Article 100, paragraph (3) of the pre-amendment National Public Officers Mutual Aid Association Act that is specified in the articles of Association of the Federation of National Public Service Personnel Mutual Aid Associations pursuant to the provisions of that paragraph; the same applies hereinafter in this paragraph) by two, for the month of October 2014 the rate obtained by multiplying the contribution rate of national public officers' mutual aid for that month by two, and for the months from October 2015 through October 2017 the respective rates specified in the lower column of the table in Article 83 of the Supplementary Provisions according to the category of months set forth in the upper column of that table.

②In the case of calculating the amount of a lump-sum withdrawal payment under the provisions of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act for a person who has a category III EPI insured period, if October of the year preceding the year that includes the final month prescribed in Article 29, paragraph (4) of the Supplementary Provisions of that Act (if that final month is from January through August, October of the year before the preceding year) falls within the period from 2013 through 2017, the insurance premium rate forming the basis for calculating that lump-sum withdrawal payment is, notwithstanding the provisions of Article 81, paragraph (4) of that Act, for the month of October 2013 the rate obtained by multiplying the contribution rate of local public officers' mutual aid for that month (meaning the proportion prescribed in Article 114, paragraph (3) of the pre-amendment Local Public Officers, etc. Mutual Aid Association Act that is calculated as specified by Cabinet Order based on the ratio of members' salary to contributions and the ratio of year-end allowances, etc. to contributions with regard to long-term benefits, as specified in the articles of Association of the Pension Fund Association for Local Government Officials pursuant to the provisions of that paragraph; the same applies hereinafter in this paragraph) by two, for the month of October 2014 the rate obtained by multiplying the contribution rate of local public officers' mutual aid for that month by two, and for the months from October 2015 through October 2017 the respective rates specified in the lower column of the table in Article 84 of the Supplementary Provisions according to the category of months set forth in the upper column of that table.

③In the case of calculating the amount of a lump-sum withdrawal payment under the provisions of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act for a person who has a category IV EPI insured period, if October of the year preceding the year that includes the final month prescribed in Article 29, paragraph (4) of the Supplementary Provisions of that Act (if that final month is from January through August, October of the year before the preceding year) falls within the period from 2013 through 2028, the insurance premium rate forming the basis for calculating that lump-sum withdrawal payment is, notwithstanding the provisions of Article 81, paragraph (4) of that Act, for the month of October 2013 the private school mutual aid contribution rate for that month (meaning the proportion prescribed in Article 27, paragraph (3) of the pre-amendment Private School Personnel Mutual Aid Association Act that is specified in the mutual aid rules (meaning the mutual aid rules prescribed in Article 4, paragraph (1) of the Private School Personnel Mutual Aid Association Act; the same applies hereinafter in this paragraph and Article 85, paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisions) pursuant to the provisions of that paragraph; the same applies hereinafter in this paragraph), for the month of October 2014 the private school mutual aid contribution rate for that month, for the months from October 2015 through October 2026 the respective rates specified in the lower column of the table in Article 85, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions according to the category of months set forth in the upper column of that table (if the provisions of paragraph (2) of that Article apply, the rates specified in the mutual aid rules pursuant to the provisions of that paragraph), and for the months of October 2027 and October 2028 the respective rates prescribed in Article 81, paragraph (4) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act (if the provisions of Article 85, paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisions apply, the rates specified in the mutual aid rules pursuant to the provisions of that paragraph).

The provisions of Articles 13-2 through 13-4 of the Act for Enforcement in Relation to Long-term Benefit under the National Public Officers Mutual Aid Association Act as amended by the provisions of Article 96 of the Supplementary Provisions (hereinafter in this Article referred to as the "Amended National Public Officers Mutual Aid Enforcement Act"), and the provisions of Article 16, paragraph (8), Article 17, paragraph (3), Article 21, paragraphs (2) through (6), Article 28, paragraph (2), Article 29, paragraph (3) and Articles 57-2 through 57-4 of the Supplementary Provisions of the 1985 National Public Officers Mutual Aid Amendment Act as amended by the provisions of Article 98 of the Supplementary Provisions, do not apply, during the period from the date of enforcement of the provisions set forth in Article 1, item (iii) of the Supplementary Provisions until the day preceding the Effective Date, to the benefits in the form of a pension prescribed in Article 16, paragraphs (1) and (2) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the Employees' Pension Insurance Act, etc. and the beneficiaries of the special pension benefits prescribed in Article 32, paragraph (2), item (i) of the Supplementary Provisions of that Act (limited to those who have a period subject to additional costs prescribed in Article 13-2, paragraph (1) of the Amended National Public Officers Mutual Aid Enforcement Act).

With regard to the application of the provisions of Article 2 of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the National Pension Act, etc. after the revision by the provisions of Article 94 of the Supplementary Provisions, in fiscal year 2015 (limited to the period on or after the month in which the Effective Date falls) and fiscal year 2016, the phrase "average standard remuneration amount" in item (i) of paragraph (1) of that Article is deemed to be replaced with "average amount of the standard remuneration amount, etc."; the phrase "the Employees' Pension Insurance Act" is deemed to be replaced with "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. to Unify, etc. the Employees' Pension Systems (Act No. 63 of 2012) (referred to in the following item as the "pre-revision Employees' Pension Insurance Act")"; and the phrase "under that Act" in item (ii) of that paragraph is deemed to be replaced with "under the pre-revision Employees' Pension Insurance Act".

Of the expenses needed for the benefits in the form of a pension set forth in the items of Article 20 of the Supplementary Provisions, the expenses for employees' pension-equivalent benefits (meaning expenses calculated as specified by Cabinet Order as the expenses needed for pension insurance benefits under the Employees' Pension Insurance Act) are deemed, in applying the provisions of Article 2-4, paragraph (1) of that Act, to be expenses needed for insurance benefits under that Act, are deemed, in applying the provisions of Article 81, paragraph (1) of the Amended Employees' Pension Insurance Act, to be expenses needed for the employees' pension insurance services prescribed in that paragraph, and are deemed, in applying the provisions of Article 84-3 of the Amended Employees' Pension Insurance Act, to be expenses needed for benefits specified by Cabinet Order as equivalent to them prescribed in that Article.