①A person to whom the surviving Pension Fund Association owes an obligation concerning the payment of the surviving Pension Fund Association old-age benefit pursuant to the provisions of Article 42, paragraph (3) or Article 43, paragraph (3) of the Supplementary Provisions (hereinafter referred to in this Article and in paragraph (1) of the following Article as a "post-effective-date Fund early leaver, etc.") may, where the person has acquired the status as a member of a surviving employees' pension Fund and the articles of Association of the surviving Pension Fund Association and that surviving employees' pension Fund provide in advance that the reserves specified by the articles of Association of the surviving Pension Fund Association (meaning the reserves to be appropriated for the surviving Pension Fund Association old-age benefit under Article 42, paragraph (3) or Article 43, paragraph (3) of the Supplementary Provisions; the same applies hereinafter in this Article and in paragraph (1) of the following Article) may be transferred from the surviving Pension Fund Association to that surviving employees' pension Fund, apply to the surviving Pension Fund Association for the transfer of those reserves; provided, however, that this does not apply where the post-effective-date Fund early leaver, etc. holds the right to receive the surviving Pension Fund Association old-age benefit under Article 42, paragraph (3) or Article 43, paragraph (3) of the Supplementary Provisions.

②When an application has been made under the preceding paragraph, the surviving Pension Fund Association is to transfer to that surviving employees' pension Fund the reserves to which the application pertains.

③When that surviving employees' pension Fund has received the transfer of reserves pursuant to the preceding paragraph, it is to pay old-age pension benefits, etc. to that post-effective-date Fund early leaver, etc., using the transferred Funds as the source and as provided by its articles of Association.

④When the surviving Pension Fund Association has transferred the reserves pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (2), it is relieved of its obligation concerning the payment of the surviving Pension Fund Association old-age benefit or the surviving Pension Fund Association survivor benefit under Article 42, paragraph (3) or Article 43, paragraph (3) of the Supplementary Provisions pertaining to that post-effective-date Fund early leaver, etc.

⑤When that surviving employees' pension Fund has come to pay old-age pension benefits, etc. pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (3), it must notify that post-effective-date Fund early leaver, etc. to that effect.