①Where the provisions of Article 44 of the Act (including where it is cited, applied mutatis mutandis, or followed in the Act, this Cabinet Order, or other laws and regulations; the same applies hereinafter in this Article) are applied to the calculation of the amount of the employees' old-age pension of a person who has spent time as an insured person relating to two or more insured categories among the categories of EPI insured period prescribed in Article 78-22 of the Act (hereinafter referred to as the "categories of EPI insured period") (hereinafter referred to as a "person who has spent time as an insured person in two or more categories"), the phrase "employees' old-age pension (limited to one calculated based on an insured period of 240 months or more)" in Article 44, paragraph (1) of the Act is deemed to be replaced with "employees' old-age pension based on the time in one category prescribed in Article 78-22 among the categories of EPI insured period prescribed in that Article (limited to one for which the number of months arrived at when the number of months in the insured period that forms the basis for calculating the amount of the employees' old-age pension based on that time in one category and the number of months in the insured period that forms the basis for calculating the amount of the employees' old-age pension based on the time in another category prescribed in that Article (hereinafter referred to in this paragraph as the "time in another category") are added together is 240 or more)", the phrase "the insured period constituting the basis for the calculation of the amount of the employees' old-age pension" is deemed to be replaced with "the number of months", and the phrase "pursuant to the provisions of Article 43, paragraph (2) or (3)" is deemed to be replaced with "pursuant to the provisions of Article 43, paragraph (2) or (3), or by acquiring the right to receive benefits from an employees' old-age pension based on the time in another category".

②Where the additional amount of pension prescribed in Article 44, paragraph (1) of the Act (hereinafter in this Article referred to as the "additional amount of pension") is added, pursuant to Article 44, paragraph (1) of the Act as replaced pursuant to the preceding paragraph, to the employees' old-age pension of a person who has spent time as an insured person in two or more categories, the additional amount of pension is to be added to the employees' old-age pension for which the right to receive benefits was acquired on the earliest day among the employees' old-age pensions based on the time in one category prescribed in Article 78-22 of the Act (hereinafter referred to as the "time in one category") among the categories of EPI insured period (for the employees' old-age pension to be paid when a person who was the beneficiary of an employees' old-age pension under Article 8 of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act (limited to one to which the additional amount of pension had been added on the day before the day on which the person reaches 65 years of age) reaches 65 years of age, the employees' old-age pension for which the basis for calculation is the insured period relating to the insured category relating to the insured period that forms the basis for calculating the amount of the employees' old-age pension under that Article); in such a case, where there are two or more employees' old-age pensions for which the right to receive benefits was acquired on that earliest day, the additional amount of pension is to be added to the employees' old-age pension based on the longest time in one category among the categories of EPI insured period (where there are two or more such times in one category, in the order set out in the following items).

③Where, with regard to the employees' old-age pension based on the time in one category to which the additional amount of pension is to be added pursuant to the preceding paragraph, payment of the portion equivalent to that additional amount of pension is suspended under the provisions of the Act or other laws and regulations (excluding Article 46, paragraph (6) of the Act; the same applies hereinafter in this paragraph and the following paragraph) (including the case where, in a case falling under Article 46, paragraph (6) of the Act, payment of the portion equivalent to that additional amount of pension continues to be suspended under the provisions of the Act or other laws and regulations when the person ceases to fall under that paragraph; the same applies in the following paragraph), then notwithstanding the preceding paragraph, the additional amount of pension is to be added, in place of the employees' old-age pension based on that time in one category and in the same way as under the latter sentence of the preceding paragraph, to an employees' old-age pension based on another time in one category (excluding one for which payment is suspended in its entirety); provided, however, that this does not apply where payment of all of the employees' old-age pensions based on another time in one category is suspended in its entirety.

④The provisions of the preceding paragraph apply mutatis mutandis to the case where, with regard to the employees' old-age pension based on the time in one category to which the additional amount of pension is to be added pursuant to the preceding paragraph, payment of the portion equivalent to that additional amount of pension is suspended under the provisions of the Act or other laws and regulations.

⑥In applying Article 3-5, paragraph (1) as replaced pursuant to the preceding paragraph where the provisions of Article 44, paragraph (1) of the Act as replaced pursuant to paragraph (1) are applied to the calculation of the amount of the employees' old-age pension based on the time in one category of a person who has spent time as an insured person in two or more categories, and the provisions of Article 44, paragraph (1) of the Act (including where applied as replaced pursuant to paragraph (1)) have already been applied to the calculation of the amount of the employees' old-age pension based on another time in one category of that person, the phrase "with regard to that employees' old-age pension" in Article 3-5, paragraph (1) is deemed to be replaced with "with regard to the employees' old-age pension, among the employees' old-age pensions based on another time in one category that the beneficiary of the employees' old-age pension has been receiving, for which the provisions of Article 44, paragraph (1) of the Act (including where applied as replaced pursuant to Article 3-13, paragraph (1)) were first applied to the calculation of its amount", and the phrase "at the time specified in that item" is deemed to be replaced with "continuously from the time specified in that item".

⑦Where the provisions of Article 44, paragraph (1) of the Act as replaced pursuant to paragraph (1) are applied to the calculation of the amount of the employees' old-age pension based on the time in one category of a person who has spent time as an insured person in two or more categories, and any of the employees' old-age pensions based on a time in another category prescribed in Article 44, paragraph (1) of the Act as so replaced is an employees' old-age pension listed in the following items, the number of months in the insured period that forms the basis for calculating the amount of the employees' old-age pension listed in each of those items is to be excluded, until the day before the day specified in that item, from the number of months in the insured period that forms the basis for calculating the amount of the employees' old-age pension based on a time in another category prescribed in Article 44, paragraph (1) of the Act as so replaced.

②In applying Article 3-5-2 where the provisions of Article 44-3, paragraph (1) of the Act as replaced pursuant to Article 78-28, paragraph (1) of the Act as replaced pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph are applied to a person who has spent time as an insured person in two or more categories, the phrase "Article 44-3, paragraph (4) of the Act" in Article 3-5-2, paragraph (1) is deemed to be replaced with "Article 44-3, paragraph (4) of the Act as replaced pursuant to Article 78-28, paragraph (1) of the Act as replaced pursuant to the provisions of Article 3-13-2, paragraph (1)", the phrase "employees' old-age pension" is deemed to be replaced with "employees' old-age pension based on the time in one category prescribed in that Article among the categories of EPI insured period prescribed in Article 78-22 of the Act", the phrase "insured period (" is deemed to be replaced with "insured period relating to that time in one category (", and the phrase "Article 46, paragraph (1) of the Act" in Article 3-5-2, paragraph (2) is deemed to be replaced with "Article 46, paragraph (1) of the Act as replaced pursuant to Article 78-29 of the Act".

①In applying the provisions of Article 78-29 of the Act to a person who has spent time as an insured person in two or more categories, the phrase "Article 46" in that Article is deemed to be replaced with "Article 46 (including, with regard to paragraph (6) of that Article, as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 54, paragraph (3); the same applies hereinafter)", and the phrase "paragraph (1) of that Article" is deemed to be replaced with "Article 46, paragraph (1)".

②In applying Article 3-7 where the provisions of Article 46, paragraph (6) of the Act (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 54, paragraph (3) of the Act) as replaced pursuant to Article 78-29 of the Act as replaced pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph are applied to a person who has spent time as an insured person in two or more categories, the phrase "number of months" in Article 3-7, item (i) is deemed to be replaced with "number of months (meaning the number of months in the insured period when the insured periods for the periods in which the person was an insured person under two or more insured categories (meaning the insured categories prescribed in Article 15 of the Act; the same applies hereinafter in this Article) are added together and the person is deemed to have only the insured period for the time in one category prescribed in Article 78-22 of the Act (hereinafter referred to as the "time in one category" in this Article))", and the phrase "number of months" in Article 3-7, items (iii)-2 and (iv)-2 is deemed to be replaced with "total of the number of months and the number of months in the insured period that forms the basis for calculating the amount of the employees' old-age pension of the beneficiary of that retirement mutual aid pension (meaning the number of months in the insured period when the insured periods for the periods in which the person was an insured person under two or more insured categories are added together and the person is deemed to have only the insured period for the time in one category)".

Where the provisions on the calculation and suspension of payment of the amount of a disability employees' pension are applied to the disability employees' pension of a beneficiary of a disability employees' pension who is a person who has spent time as an insured person in two or more categories on the day of disability assessment for the disability, the phrase "The amount of a disability employees' pension is" in Article 50, paragraph (1) of the Act is deemed to be replaced with "The amount of a disability employees' pension for a beneficiary of a disability employees' pension who is a person who has spent time as an insured person in two or more categories prescribed in Article 78-22 on the day of disability assessment for the disability is, for each category of EPI insured period prescribed in that Article,", the phrase "an amount calculated pursuant to the provisions of Article 43, paragraph (1)" is deemed to be replaced with "an amount arrived at when the amounts calculated pursuant to the provisions of Article 43, paragraph (1) are added together", the phrase "number of months in the insured period" is deemed to be replaced with "number of months in the insured period (meaning the number of months in the insured period when the insured periods for the periods in which the person was an insured person under two or more insured categories are added together and the person is deemed to have only the insured period for the time in one category prescribed in Article 78-22; the same applies hereinafter in this paragraph)", and the phrase "it is regarded as 300" is deemed to be replaced with "it is regarded as the amount arrived at when the amount so added together is divided by the number of months in that insured period and the quotient is multiplied by 300".

Where the provisions on the calculation of the amount of a disability allowance are applied to the amount of the disability allowance of a beneficiary of a disability allowance who is a person who has spent time as an insured person in two or more categories on the day of disability assessment for the disability, the phrase "The amount of a disability allowance is an amount equal to 200/100 of the amount calculated pursuant to the provisions of Article 50, paragraph (1)" in Article 57 of the Act is deemed to be replaced with "The amount of a disability allowance for a beneficiary of a disability allowance who is a person who has spent time as an insured person in two or more categories prescribed in Article 78-22 on the day of disability assessment for the disability is an amount equal to 200/100 of the amount calculated pursuant to the provisions of Article 50, paragraph (1) as replaced pursuant to Article 3-13-4 of the Order for Enforcement of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act (Cabinet Order No. 110 of 1954)".

①Where the provisions on the calculation and suspension of payment of the amount of a survivors' employees' pension are applied to a survivors' employees' pension for the surviving family of a person who has spent time as an insured person in two or more categories (limited to one paid by reason of falling under any of Article 58, paragraph (1), items (i) through (iii) of the Act), the phrase "The amount of a survivors' employees' pension" in Article 60, paragraph (1) of the Act is deemed to be replaced with "The amount of a survivors' employees' pension for the surviving family of a person who has spent time as an insured person in two or more categories prescribed in Article 78-22 (limited to one paid by reason of falling under any of items (i) through (iii) of Article 58, paragraph (1))", in item (i) of that paragraph, the phrase "Article 43, paragraph (1)" is deemed to be replaced with "Article 43, paragraph (1) for each category of EPI insured period prescribed in Article 78-22", the phrase "of the amount calculated" is deemed to be replaced with "of the sum total of the amounts calculated", the phrase "number of months in the insured period is below 300" is deemed to be replaced with "number of months in the insured period (meaning the number of months in the insured period when the insured periods for the periods in which the person was an insured person under two or more insured categories are added together and the person is deemed to have only the insured period for the time in one category prescribed in Article 78-22 of the Act; the same applies hereinafter in this item) is below 300", and the phrase "the amount calculated when the number of months in the insured period is treated as having been 300" is deemed to be replaced with "the amount arrived at when the amount equal to that three-quarters is divided by the number of months in that insured period and the quotient is multiplied by 300".

②Where the provisions on the calculation of the amount of a survivors' employees' pension are applied to a survivors' employees' pension for the surviving family of a person who has spent time as an insured person in two or more categories (limited to one paid by reason of falling under Article 58, paragraph (1), item (iv) of the Act), the phrase "The amount of a survivors' employees' pension" in Article 60, paragraph (1) of the Act is deemed to be replaced with "The amount of a survivors' employees' pension based on the time in one category prescribed in Article 78-22 (hereinafter referred to in this paragraph, Article 62, paragraph (1) and Article 64-2 as the "time in one category") among the categories of EPI insured period prescribed in Article 78-22 (hereinafter referred to in this paragraph and Article 64-2 as the "categories of EPI insured period") (limited to one paid by reason of falling under Article 58, paragraph (1), item (iv))", the phrase "the amount provided for in each of the following items" in Article 60, paragraph (1) of the Act is deemed to be replaced with "the amount obtained by multiplying the amount provided for in each of the following items by the number obtained by dividing the amount equal to three-quarters of the amount calculated pursuant to the provisions of Article 43, paragraph (1) with the insured period relating to that time in one category as the basis for calculating by the sum of the amounts equal to three-quarters of the amounts calculated for each category of EPI insured period pursuant to the provisions of that paragraph (hereinafter referred to in this paragraph and Article 64-2 as the "combined proportional allocation ratio for surviving family")", the phrase "the amount prescribed in item (i)" in Article 60, paragraph (1) of the Act is deemed to be replaced with "the amount obtained by multiplying the amount prescribed in item (i) by the combined proportional allocation ratio for surviving family", the phrase "the amount calculated pursuant to the provisions of Article 43, paragraph (1)" in Article 60, paragraph (1), item (i) of the Act is deemed to be replaced with "the amount calculated for each category of EPI insured period pursuant to the provisions of Article 43, paragraph (1)", the phrase "an amount equal to three-quarters of" in Article 60, paragraph (1), item (i) of the Act is deemed to be replaced with "the sum of the amounts equal to three-quarters of", the phrase "an insured period of 240 months or less" in Article 62, paragraph (1) of the Act is deemed to be replaced with "an insured period of 240 months or less (where the number of months is the number of months in the insured period when the insured periods for the periods in which the person was an insured person under two or more insured categories are added together and the person is deemed to have only the insured period for the time in one category)", the phrase "If the beneficiary of a survivors' employees' pension" in Article 64-2 of the Act is deemed to be replaced with "If the beneficiary of a survivors' employees' pension based on the time in one category among the categories of EPI insured period", and the phrase "equivalent to the amount of the beneficiary's employees' old-age pension" in Article 64-2 of the Act is deemed to be replaced with "equivalent to the amount obtained by multiplying the amount of the beneficiary's employees' old-age pension by the combined proportional allocation ratio for surviving family".

Where, in the case prescribed in paragraph (2) of the preceding Article, the additional amount under Article 62, paragraph (1) of the Act as replaced pursuant to paragraph (2) of the preceding Article is added to a survivors' employees' pension, that additional amount is to be added to the survivors' employees' pension based on the longest time in one category among the categories of EPI insured period (where there are two or more such times in one category, in the order set out in the following items).

In applying Article 60, paragraph (1), item (ii) of the Act where a beneficiary of a survivors' employees' pension is a beneficiary of employees' old-age pensions based on two or more times in one category among the categories of EPI insured period, the phrase "(or, for an employees' old-age pension" in (b) of that item is deemed to be replaced with "(the amount obtained by adding together the amounts of the employees' old-age pensions based on each category of EPI insured period prescribed in Article 78-22 (or, for an employees' old-age pension based on the time in one category prescribed in Article 78-22", the phrase "pursuant to the provisions of Article 44, paragraph (1)" in (b) of that item is deemed to be replaced with "pursuant to the provisions of Article 44, paragraph (1) as replaced pursuant to Article 3-13, paragraph (1) of the Order for Enforcement of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act (Cabinet Order No. 110 of 1954)", and the phrase "the amount to which those provisions do not apply;" in (b) of that item is deemed to be replaced with "the amount to which those provisions do not apply);".

①Where a beneficiary of a survivors' employees' pension the amount of which is calculated pursuant to Article 60, paragraph (1), item (ii) of the Act (including where applied as replaced pursuant to the provisions of the preceding Article) further acquires the right to receive benefits from an employees' old-age pension based on a time in one category among the categories of EPI insured period, the amount of that survivors' employees' pension is revised from the month following the month that includes the day on which the person acquired the right to receive benefits from the employees' old-age pension based on that time in one category.

②The provisions of the proviso to Article 61, paragraph (3) of the Act apply mutatis mutandis to the case under the preceding paragraph. In this case, the phrase "(a) and (b) of that paragraph" in the proviso to Article 61, paragraph (3) of the Act is deemed to be replaced with "(a) and (b) (or, where Article 3-13-8 of the Order for Enforcement of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act (Cabinet Order No. 110 of 1954) replaces them, (b) of that item as so replaced) of that paragraph".

①Where the disability employees' pension under Article 78-30 of the Act is a disability employees' pension listed in the following items, the day of initial examination prescribed in Article 78-33, paragraph (1) of the Act is the day of initial examination specified in each of those items.

②With regard to administrative functions relating to the payment of a survivors' employees' pension under Article 78-32, paragraph (1) of the Act (limited to one paid by reason of falling under Article 58, paragraph (1), item (i) of the Act), where Article 78-33, paragraph (1) of the Act is applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 78-33, paragraph (2) of the Act, the phrase "the day of initial examination for the disability in question" in Article 78-33, paragraph (1) of the Act is deemed to be replaced with "the day of death".

③With regard to administrative functions relating to the payment of a survivors' employees' pension under Article 78-32, paragraph (1) of the Act (limited to one paid by reason of falling under Article 58, paragraph (1), item (ii) or (iii) of the Act), where Article 78-33, paragraph (1) of the Act is applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 78-33, paragraph (2) of the Act, the phrase "the day of initial examination for the disability in question" in Article 78-33, paragraph (1) of the Act is deemed to be replaced with "the day of initial examination prescribed in Article 58, paragraph (1), item (ii), or the day of initial examination for the disability that became the ground for payment of the disability employees' pension prescribed in item (iii) of that paragraph".

④With regard to a survivors' employees' pension under Article 78-32, paragraph (1) of the Act, where the deceased person prescribed in that paragraph falls under two or more of Article 58, paragraph (1), items (i) through (iii) of the Act, notwithstanding Article 78-33, paragraph (2) of the Act, the administrative functions relating to the payment of that survivors' employees' pension are to be performed by the persons specified in each item of Article 2-5, paragraph (1) of the Act, in accordance with the insured category on the day specified in each of the following items for the case listed in that item.

①Where Articles 78-3 and 78-6 of the Act are applied to a person who has spent time as an insured person in two or more categories, the phrase "the revaluation rate" in Article 78-3, paragraph (1) of the Act is deemed to be replaced with "the revaluation rate corresponding to the categories of EPI insured period prescribed in Article 78-22 (referred to as the "categories of EPI insured period" in Article 78-6, paragraph (3))", the phrase "that is an insured period for the person subject to a class I revision" in Article 78-6, paragraph (3) of the Act is deemed to be replaced with "that is an insured period for the person subject to a class I revision, relating to the time in one category prescribed in Article 78-22 among the categories of EPI insured period of the person subject to a class I revision (hereinafter referred to in this paragraph as the "time in one category")", and the phrase "but not an insured period for the person subject to a class II revision" in Article 78-6, paragraph (3) of the Act is deemed to be replaced with "but not an insured period for the person subject to a class II revision relating to that time in one category".

②In the case of the preceding paragraph, the provisions of Article 78-10, paragraph (1) of the Act and Article 3-12-2 are applied for each insured period relating to the categories of EPI insured period, and the provisions of Article 78-10, paragraph (2) of the Act are applied by adding together the person's time as an insured person relating to two or more insured categories and deeming the person to be a person who has only the insured period relating to the time in one category. In this case, the phrase "the revaluation rate (meaning" in Article 3-12-5 is deemed to be replaced with "the revaluation rate corresponding to the categories of EPI insured period prescribed in Article 78-22 of the Act (meaning".

Where the person subject to a class I revision prescribed in Article 78-2, paragraph (1) of the Act (hereinafter referred to as the "person subject to a class I revision" in this Article) and the person subject to a class II revision prescribed in that paragraph (hereinafter referred to as the "person subject to a class II revision" in this Article) are persons who have a time in one category relating to different insured categories, and the person subject to a class I revision or the person subject to a class II revision is a person who does not have time as an insured person relating to two or more insured categories among the categories of EPI insured period, Article 78-35 of the Act is applied by deeming the person subject to a class I revision or the person subject to a class II revision who does not have time as an insured person relating to those two or more insured categories to be a person who has spent time as an insured person in two or more categories.

①Where Article 78-14, paragraphs (2) and (3) of the Act are applied to a person who has spent time as an insured person in two or more categories, the phrase "the specific period" in paragraph (4) of that Article is deemed to be replaced with "the time in one category prescribed in Article 78-22 (hereinafter referred to in this paragraph as the "time in one category") among the categories of EPI insured period prescribed in Article 78-22 relating to the specific period", and the phrase "an insured period for the dependent spouse" in paragraph (4) of that Article is deemed to be replaced with "an insured period for the dependent spouse relating to that time in one category".

②In the case of the preceding paragraph, the provisions of Article 78-18, paragraph (1) of the Act as replaced pursuant to Article 17-11 of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act and Article 8-2-6 are applied for each insured period relating to the categories of EPI insured period, and the provisions of Article 78-18, paragraph (2) of the Act are applied by adding together the person's time as an insured person relating to two or more insured categories and deeming the person to be a person who has only the insured period relating to the time in one category.