For the time being, the provisions of Article 30, paragraph (1) (limited to item (ii)), Article 30-2, Article 30-3, Article 30-4, paragraph (2), Article 34, paragraph (4), the proviso to Article 36, paragraph (2), Article 49, and Article 5 of the Supplementary Provisions do not apply to a person entitled to receive an old-age basic pension under the provisions of Article 9-2, paragraph (3) of the Supplementary Provisions or paragraph (3) of the preceding Article, or a person entitled to receive an old-age employees' pension under the provisions of Article 7-3, paragraph (3) or Article 13-4, paragraph (3) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act.

For the time being, for the purpose of applying the provisions of Article 20, paragraph (1), the phrase "survivors' basic pension or widow's pension" in that paragraph is deemed to be replaced with "pension benefit (excluding the old-age basic pension and the disability basic pension (limited to one whose recipient has reached 65 years of age), and the additional pension)", the phrase "a person entitled to receive an old-age basic pension" is deemed to be replaced with "a person entitled to receive an old-age basic pension (limited to a person who has reached 65 years of age)", and the phrase "a person entitled to receive a disability basic pension" is deemed to be replaced with "a person entitled to receive a disability basic pension (limited to a person who has reached 65 years of age)".

For the time being, notwithstanding the provisions of Article 97, paragraph (1), where the special base rate for delinquent tax for each year (meaning the special base rate for delinquent tax prescribed in Article 94, paragraph (1) of the Act on Special Measures Concerning Taxation (Act No. 26 of 1957); the same applies below in this Article) is less than a rate of 7.3% per annum, the rate of 14.6% per annum and the rate of 7.3% per annum for the delinquency charge prescribed in Article 97, paragraph (1) (including a case where it is applied mutatis mutandis under Article 134-2, paragraph (1), and a case where it is applied mutatis mutandis by replacing terms under Article 137-21, paragraph (2); the same applies below in this Article) are, during that year, in the case of the rate of 14.6% per annum, the rate obtained by adding a rate of 7.3% per annum to that special base rate for delinquent tax, and, in the case of the rate of 7.3% per annum, the rate obtained by adding a rate of 1% per annum to that special base rate for delinquent tax (or, where the rate so added exceeds a rate of 7.3% per annum, a rate of 7.3% per annum).

For the purpose of the application of the provisions of Article 88-3, paragraph (3) during the period from fiscal year 2026 to fiscal year 2028, the term "the child and child-rearing support contribution" in that paragraph is deemed to be replaced with "the child and child-rearing support contribution and the proceeds from the issuance of child and child-rearing support special bonds prescribed in Article 71-26, paragraph (2) of that Act".

①Where a person for whom the combined period of the premium-paid period and premium exemption period relating to the insured period as a category 1 insured person, and the period specified by Cabinet Order among the periods during which the person was a member of the Former Army Mutual Aid Association based on the Order for the Former Army Mutual Aid Association (Imperial Ordinance No. 947 of 1940) or any other mutual aid association specified by Cabinet Order, totals 10 years or more, reaches 65 years of age, the old-age pension is paid to that person. However, this is limited to a case where the combined period of that premium-paid period and that premium exemption period is one year or more, and the person falls under the proviso to Article 26.

②The amount of the old-age pension paid under the provisions of the preceding paragraph is the amount calculated, with respect to the premium-paid period and premium exemption period relating to the insured period as a category 1 insured person, as provided for in Article 27.

③The old-age pension under the provisions of paragraph (1) is, for the purpose of applying the provisions of Chapter III (excluding Section 2), Chapter VII through Chapter X, and Article 38 of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act, deemed to be an old-age basic pension.

④The provisions of Article 28, Article 9-2 of the Supplementary Provisions (excluding the proviso to paragraph (1) of that Article), Article 9-2-3 of the Supplementary Provisions, and Article 9-2-4 of the Supplementary Provisions apply mutatis mutandis to a person falling under the requirement prescribed in paragraph (1). In this case, the phrase "has a premium-paid period or a premium exemption period" in Article 9-2, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions is to be read as "falls under the requirement prescribed in Article 9-3, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions", and the phrase "Article 26" in paragraph (3) of that Article is to be read as "Article 9-3, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions".

⑤The right to receive the old-age pension under the provisions of paragraph (1) is extinguished when the person entitled to receive it dies.

①For the time being, a person who does not have Japanese nationality (limited to a person who is not an insured person) for whom the number of months of premium-paid periods, etc. (meaning the number of months obtained by adding together, as of the day preceding the day of the request, the number of months of the premium-paid period relating to the insured period as a category 1 insured person up to the month preceding the month that includes the day of the request, the number of months equivalent to three-quarters of the number of months of the one-quarter premium exemption period, the number of months equivalent to one-half of the number of months of half premium exemption periods, and the number of months equivalent to one-quarter of the number of months of the three-quarter premium exemption period; the same applies in paragraph (3)) is six months or more, and who falls under the proviso to Article 26 or is otherwise specified by Cabinet Order as a person equivalent thereto, may request payment of the lump-sum withdrawal payment. However, this does not apply where the person falls under any of the following items.

②Where the request under the preceding paragraph has been made, the lump-sum withdrawal payment is paid to the person who made that request.

③The amount of the lump-sum withdrawal payment is the amount obtained by multiplying the amount obtained by multiplying the amount of the premium in the fiscal year that includes the reference month (meaning, among the months included in the insured period as a category 1 insured person up to the month preceding the month that includes the day of the request (limited to the premium-paid period, the one-quarter premium exemption period, the half premium exemption period, or the three-quarter premium exemption period), the most recent month as of the day preceding that day) by one-half, by the number specified by Cabinet Order according to the number of months of premium-paid periods, etc.

④Where a person has received payment of the lump-sum withdrawal payment, the period during which the person was an insured person as a category 1 insured person that was the basis for calculating that amount is, with respect to that person, deemed to be a period during which the person was not an insured person.

⑤A person who has an objection to a disposition concerning the lump-sum withdrawal payment may make a request for review to the Social Insurance Examination Committee.

⑥The provisions of Article 101, paragraphs (3) through (5), and Article 101-2 apply mutatis mutandis to the request for review under the preceding paragraph. In this case, the technical replacement of terms necessary in relation to these provisions is specified by Cabinet Order.

⑦The provisions of Article 16, Article 19, paragraphs (1), (4) and (5), Article 23, Article 24, Article 105, paragraph (4), Article 107, paragraph (1), and Article 111 apply mutatis mutandis to the lump-sum withdrawal payment. In this case, the technical replacement of terms necessary in relation to these provisions is specified by Cabinet Order.

The affairs concerning payment of the basic pension may be performed by a person specified by Cabinet Order, as provided for by Cabinet Order.

①An insured person or a person who was an insured person may give a notification to the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare concerning the period, among the insured periods as a category 3 insured person (limited to a premium-paid period (excluding a period specified by Cabinet Order) falling within the period from April 1986 until the month preceding the month that includes the day of enforcement of the provisions listed in Article 1, item (ii) 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; referred to in paragraph (1) of the following Article as the "2013 Amendment Act") (hereinafter referred to as the "Partial Effective Date of the 2013 Amendment Act")), for which a correction has been made, under the provisions of Article 14, to matters recorded as an insured period as a category 1 insured person (referred to in Article 9-4-6, paragraphs (1) and (2) of the Supplementary Provisions as the "inconsistent period"), and for which the right to collect premiums has, at the time that correction was made, been extinguished by prescription (hereinafter referred to as the "time-barred inconsistent period").

②Where a notification is given under the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the time-barred inconsistent period to which that notification relates (referred to in paragraph (4) and in paragraph (1) of the following Article as the "specified period") is, for the purpose of applying the provisions of this Act and any other laws and regulations specified by Cabinet Order, deemed, from and after the day on which that notification was given, to be a period relating to premiums that are treated as not required to be paid under the provisions of Article 90-3, paragraph (1), and matters necessary in relation to the application of these provisions are specified by Cabinet Order.

③Where payment of premiums is made under the provisions of paragraph (1) of the following Article or any other provision specified by Cabinet Order, the provisions of the preceding paragraph do not apply, from and after the day on which the payment was made, to the month to which that payment relates.

④For the purpose of applying the provisions of Article 18 of the Supplementary Provisions of the 1985 Amendment Act to a person who has a specified period, the phrase "the insured period of the National Pension on and after that day" in paragraph (1) of that Article is deemed to be replaced with "the period deemed, on and after that day, under the provisions of Article 9-4-2, paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisions of that Act, to be a period relating to premiums that are treated as not required to be paid under the provisions of Article 90-3, paragraph (1) of that Act".