①In the case where an application under the provisions of Article 165, paragraph (1) of the pre-amendment Employees' Pension Insurance Act was made before the Effective Date, the provisions of that Article and Article 165-4 of the pre-amendment Employees' Pension Insurance Act remain in force.

②In the case where an application under the provisions of Article 165-2, paragraph (1) of the pre-amendment Employees' Pension Insurance Act was made before the Effective Date, the provisions of that Article and Article 165-4 of the pre-amendment Employees' Pension Insurance Act remain in force.

③In the case where an application under the provisions of Article 165-3, paragraph (1) of the pre-amendment Employees' Pension Insurance Act was made before the Effective Date, the provisions of that Article and Article 165-4 of the pre-amendment Employees' Pension Insurance Act remain in force.

④In the cases referred to in the preceding three paragraphs, Cabinet Order provides for the necessary replacement of terms and other necessary matters in connection with the application of the provisions of the pre-amendment Employees' Pension Insurance Act that are to remain in force pursuant to those provisions.

①In the case where an application under the provisions of Article 91-2, paragraph (1) of the pre-amendment Defined-Benefit Corporate Pension Act was made before the Effective Date, the provisions of that Article and Articles 91-6 through 91-8 of the pre-amendment Defined-Benefit Corporate Pension Act, and the provisions of Article 31, Article 33, Article 34, paragraph (1), Article 35, Article 36, paragraphs (1) and (2) (excluding item (ii)), Article 37, Article 38, Article 40, Article 47, Article 48, Article 53, and Article 54 of the pre-amendment Defined-Benefit Corporate Pension Act as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 91-7 of the pre-amendment Defined-Benefit Corporate Pension Act remain in force.

②In the case where an application under the provisions of Article 91-3, paragraph (1) of the pre-amendment Defined-Benefit Corporate Pension Act was made before the Effective Date, the provisions of that Article and Articles 91-6 through 91-8 of the pre-amendment Defined-Benefit Corporate Pension Act, the provisions of Article 91-2, paragraph (6) of the pre-amendment Defined-Benefit Corporate Pension Act as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 91-3, paragraph (6) of the pre-amendment Defined-Benefit Corporate Pension Act, and the provisions of Article 31, Article 33, Article 34, paragraph (1), Article 35, Article 36, paragraphs (1) and (2) (excluding item (ii)), Article 37, Article 38, Article 40, Article 47, Article 48, Article 53, and Article 54 of the pre-amendment Defined-Benefit Corporate Pension Act as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 91-7 of the pre-amendment Defined-Benefit Corporate Pension Act remain in force.

③In the case where an application under the provisions of Article 91-4, paragraph (1) of the pre-amendment Defined-Benefit Corporate Pension Act was made before the Effective Date, the provisions of that Article and Articles 91-6 through 91-8 of the pre-amendment Defined-Benefit Corporate Pension Act, the provisions of Article 91-3, paragraphs (4) and (5) of the pre-amendment Defined-Benefit Corporate Pension Act as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 91-4, paragraph (4) of the pre-amendment Defined-Benefit Corporate Pension Act, the provisions of Article 91-2, paragraph (6) of the pre-amendment Defined-Benefit Corporate Pension Act as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 91-4, paragraph (5) of the pre-amendment Defined-Benefit Corporate Pension Act, and the provisions of Article 31, Articles 33 through 35, Article 44, Articles 46 through 48, and Articles 52 through 54 of the pre-amendment Defined-Benefit Corporate Pension Act as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 91-7 of the pre-amendment Defined-Benefit Corporate Pension Act remain in force.

④In the case where an application under the provisions of Article 91-5, paragraph (1) of the pre-amendment Defined-Benefit Corporate Pension Act was made before the Effective Date, the provisions of that Article and Articles 91-6 through 91-8 of the pre-amendment Defined-Benefit Corporate Pension Act, the provisions of Article 49, Article 51, paragraphs (1) and (3), Article 53, and Article 54 of the pre-amendment Defined-Benefit Corporate Pension Act as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 91-5, paragraph (4) of the pre-amendment Defined-Benefit Corporate Pension Act, the provisions of Article 91-3, paragraphs (4) and (5) of the pre-amendment Defined-Benefit Corporate Pension Act as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 91-5, paragraph (7) of the pre-amendment Defined-Benefit Corporate Pension Act, the provisions of Article 91-2, paragraph (6) of the pre-amendment Defined-Benefit Corporate Pension Act as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 91-5, paragraph (8) of the pre-amendment Defined-Benefit Corporate Pension Act, and the provisions of Article 31, Article 33, Article 34, paragraph (1), and Article 35 of the pre-amendment Defined-Benefit Corporate Pension Act as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 91-7 of the pre-amendment Defined-Benefit Corporate Pension Act remain in force.

⑤In the cases referred to in each of the preceding paragraphs, Cabinet Order provides for the necessary replacement of terms and other necessary matters in connection with the application of the provisions of the pre-amendment Defined-Benefit Corporate Pension Act that are to remain in force pursuant to those provisions.

①In the case where an application under the provisions of Article 115-4, paragraph (1) of the pre-amendment Defined-Benefit Corporate Pension Act was made before the Effective Date, the provisions of that Article and Article 116 of the pre-amendment Defined-Benefit Corporate Pension Act remain in force.

②In the case where an application under the provisions of Article 115-5, paragraph (1) of the pre-amendment Defined-Benefit Corporate Pension Act was made before the Effective Date, the provisions of that Article and Article 116 of the pre-amendment Defined-Benefit Corporate Pension Act remain in force.

③In the case where an application under the provisions of Article 117-3, paragraph (1) of the pre-amendment Defined-Benefit Corporate Pension Act was made before the Effective Date, the provisions of that Article and Article 117-4 of the pre-amendment Defined-Benefit Corporate Pension Act remain in force.

④In the cases referred to in the preceding three paragraphs, Cabinet Order provides for the necessary replacement of terms and other necessary matters in connection with the application of the provisions of the pre-amendment Defined-Benefit Corporate Pension Act that are to remain in force pursuant to those provisions.

①As provided by Cabinet Order, the surviving Pension Fund Association may, by a resolution adopted by a majority of at least three-fourths of the fixed number of members of its board of councilors and with the approval of the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare, be relieved of the obligation to pay old-age pension benefits in an amount equivalent to the amount prescribed in Article 132, paragraph (2) of the pre-amendment Employees' Pension Insurance Act (hereinafter in this Article and the following Article referred to as the "obligation to pay substitute benefits") in relation to all or part of the persons to whom the surviving Pension Fund Association owes an obligation to pay old-age pension benefits pursuant to Article 160, paragraph (5) of the pre-amendment Employees' Pension Insurance Act that remains in force pursuant to the provisions of Article 61, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions and Article 161, paragraph (2) of the pre-amendment Employees' Pension Insurance Act that remains in force pursuant to the provisions of Article 61, paragraph (3) of the Supplementary Provisions (hereinafter in this Article and the following Article referred to as "persons owed old-age pension benefits"); provided, however, that this does not apply to the obligation to pay old-age pension benefits that should have been paid by the date on which that approval was obtained but have not yet been paid.

②The approval under the preceding paragraph must be obtained for each person owed old-age pension benefits from whose obligation to pay substitute benefits the surviving Pension Fund Association seeks to be relieved.

③In the case where the surviving Pension Fund Association, before a person owed old-age pension benefits acquires the right to receive an employees' old-age pension under the Employees' Pension Insurance Act (hereinafter simply referred to as "employees' old-age pension"), has obtained the approval under paragraph (1) and been relieved of the obligation to pay substitute benefits pertaining to that person owed old-age pension benefits, the provisions of Article 44-2, paragraph (1) of the pre-amendment Employees' Pension Insurance Act that remains in force pursuant to the provisions of Article 86, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions do not apply to the period of having been a member of an employees' pension Fund that constitutes the basis for calculating the amount of the benefit in the form of a pension for which that surviving Pension Fund Association bore the obligation to pay substitute benefits (excluding the period of having been a member that constitutes the basis for calculating the amount of a benefit in the form of a pension for which another surviving employees' pension Fund has succeeded to the obligation to pay).

④In the case where a person owed old-age pension benefits from whose obligation to pay substitute benefits the surviving Pension Fund Association has been relieved pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) is a beneficiary of an employees' old-age pension, notwithstanding the provisions of Article 44-2, paragraph (1) of the pre-amendment Employees' Pension Insurance Act that remains in force pursuant to the provisions of Article 86, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions, the amount of that employees' old-age pension is to be the amount calculated by following the example of the provisions of Article 44-2, paragraph (1) of the pre-amendment Employees' Pension Insurance Act on the assumption that the period of having been a member of an employees' pension Fund that constitutes the basis for calculating the amount of the benefit in the form of a pension pertaining to that obligation to pay substitute benefits (excluding the period of having been a member that constitutes the basis for calculating the amount of a benefit in the form of a pension for which another surviving employees' pension Fund has succeeded to the obligation to pay) is not a period of having been a member of an employees' pension Fund, and the amount of that employees' old-age pension is to be revised from the month following the month that includes the date on which that surviving Pension Fund Association obtained the approval under paragraph (1).

When the approval under paragraph (1) of the preceding Article has been granted, the government is to collect from the surviving Pension Fund Association the liability reserve equivalent pertaining to the persons owed old-age pension benefits from whose obligation to pay substitute benefits the surviving Pension Fund Association has been relieved by that approval.

①In the case where the government collects the liability reserve equivalent from the surviving Pension Fund Association pursuant to the provisions of the preceding Article, the surviving Pension Fund Association is deemed to be a dissolved employees' pension Fund, etc. (meaning a dissolved employees' pension Fund, etc. prescribed in Article 113, paragraph (1) of the pre-amendment Defined-Benefit Corporate Pension Act; the same applies hereinafter), and the provisions of Article 114 of the pre-amendment Defined-Benefit Corporate Pension Act are followed. In this case, the phrase "the approval of the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare under Article 111, paragraph (2) or Article 112, paragraph (1)" in Article 114, paragraph (2) of the pre-amendment Defined-Benefit Corporate Pension Act is deemed to be replaced with "Article 65, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions 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)", and Cabinet Order provides for any other necessary technical replacement of terms.

②In the case where the surviving Pension Fund Association makes payment in kind by following the example of the provisions of Article 114 of the pre-amendment Defined-Benefit Corporate Pension Act pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the surviving Pension Fund Association is deemed to be a dissolved employees' pension Fund, etc., and the provisions of Article 1-13 of the Supplementary Provisions of the pre-amendment Insurance Business Act are followed. In this case, Cabinet Order provides for the necessary technical replacement of terms.

With regard to requests for administrative review or requests for re-examination under the provisions of Article 90, paragraphs (1) and (2) or Article 91 of the pre-amendment Employees' Pension Insurance Act as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 169 of the pre-amendment Employees' Pension Insurance Act, against dispositions or impositions made by the Pension Fund Association established pursuant to the provisions of the pre-amendment Employees' Pension Insurance Act, for which no decision has been made by the day preceding the Effective Date, the provisions then in force continue to govern.