①A person who has the right to receive an old-age basic pension and who has not claimed that old-age basic pension before reaching 66 years of age may make a request to the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare to defer payment of that old-age basic pension. However, this does not apply where, when that person reached 65 years of age, the person was a person entitled to receive another benefit that is a pension (meaning another pension benefit (excluding the additional pension) or an insurance benefit that is a pension under the Employees' Pension Insurance Act (excluding one for which old age is the ground for payment); the same applies hereinafter in this Article), or where the person became a person entitled to receive another benefit that is a pension during the period from the day the person reached 65 years of age to the day the person reached 66 years of age.

②When a person listed in the following items makes the request under the preceding paragraph (excluding that request in a case where the request under the preceding paragraph is deemed, under the provisions of paragraph (5), to have been made; the same applies hereinafter in this paragraph) after the day the person reached 66 years of age, the request under the preceding paragraph is deemed to have been made on the day specified in the relevant item.

③Payment of the old-age basic pension to a person who has made the request under paragraph (1) (including that request in a case where the request under paragraph (1) is deemed, under the provisions of paragraph (5), to have been made; the same applies in the following paragraph) is, notwithstanding the provisions of Article 18, paragraph (1), to begin from the month following the month in which the day of that request falls.

④The amount of the old-age basic pension paid to a person who has made the request under paragraph (1) is, notwithstanding the provisions of Article 27, the amount obtained by adding, to the amount specified in that Article, an amount specified by Cabinet Order.

⑤When a person who may make a request to defer payment of an old-age basic pension under the provisions of paragraph (1) claims that old-age basic pension after the day of reaching 70 years of age, and does not make the request under that paragraph at the time of that claim, the request under that paragraph is deemed to have been made on the day five years before the day of that claim. However, this does not apply where that person falls under any of the following items.