①A surviving Pension Fund Association that has been dissolved pursuant to the provisions of Article 70, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions may, as provided by its articles of Association, apply to the Association for the delivery of the residual assets that are to be distributed to Fund early leavers, etc. pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (3) of that Article.

②When the Association has received the delivery of the residual assets prescribed in the preceding paragraph, it is to pay benefits in the form of pensions or lump-sum benefits for which old age is the reason for payment to the Fund early leavers, etc. concerned, using the money so delivered as the source of Funds, as provided by Cabinet Order.

③When the Association has received the delivery of the residual assets prescribed in paragraph (1), for the purpose of applying the provisions of Article 70, paragraph (3) of the Supplementary Provisions, such residual assets are deemed to have been distributed to the Fund early leavers, etc. concerned.

④When the Association has come to pay benefits in the form of pensions or lump-sum benefits pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (2), it must notify the Fund early leavers, etc. to that effect.

⑤When the Association cannot give the notice under the provisions of the preceding paragraph because the whereabouts of Fund early leavers, etc. are unknown, it must, in lieu of that notice, give public notice of the matters to be notified.