①A designated full exemption application handler prescribed in Article 109-2, paragraph (1) of the National Pension Act may, in addition to the affairs prescribed in that paragraph, upon entrustment by a category 1 insured person or a person who was a category 1 insured person prescribed in Article 7, paragraph (1), item (i) of that Act who falls under any of the items of paragraph (2) of the preceding Article (limited to a person specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare; hereinafter referred to in this Article as an "insured person meeting the postponement requirements"), make the application under paragraph (2) of the preceding Article (hereinafter referred to in this Article as an "application for payment postponement") pertaining to an insured person meeting the postponement requirements.

②If an insured person meeting the postponement requirements has entrusted a designated full exemption application handler with an application for payment postponement, then, for the purposes of the application of the provisions of paragraph (2) of the preceding Article and the provisions of Article 90, paragraph (2) of the National Pension Act as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to paragraph (3) of that Article, the application for payment postponement is deemed to have been made on the day of that entrustment.

③If a designated full exemption application handler has been entrusted by an insured person meeting the postponement requirements with an application for payment postponement, the handler must, without delay, make that application for payment postponement as specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.

④The affairs concerning an application for payment postponement that a designated full exemption application handler carries out are deemed to be the affairs under Article 109-2, paragraph (1) of the National Pension Act, and the provisions of paragraphs (4) through (8) of that Article (including the penal provisions pertaining to those provisions) apply. In this case, the necessary technical replacement of terms is specified by Cabinet Order.

The provisions of Article 7-3, paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisions of the National Pension Act after the revision by the provisions of Article 2 do not apply to a period before April 1, 2005.

①A category 3 insured person prescribed in Article 7, paragraph (1), item (iii) of the National Pension Act (hereinafter referred to in this paragraph as a "category 3 insured person"), or a person who was a category 3 insured person, may notify the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare with regard to a period, among that person's insured periods of the National Pension as a category 3 insured person before April 1, 2005, that is not included in the premium-paid period prescribed in Article 5, paragraph (1) of the National Pension Act (hereinafter referred to as the "premium-paid period") pursuant to the provisions of Article 7-3 of the Supplementary Provisions of the National Pension Act before the revision by the provisions of Article 2 (excluding an insured period of the National Pension as a category 3 insured person that is not included in the premium-paid period pursuant to the provisions of Article 7-2 of the Supplementary Provisions of that Act).

②If a notification has been made pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, then, notwithstanding the provisions of Article 7-3, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the National Pension Act after the revision by the provisions of Article 2, the period pertaining to the notification is included in the premium-paid period on and after the day on which the notification was made.

③If a person entitled to receive an old-age basic pension under the National Pension Act, or an old-age pension or aggregated old-age pension under the National Pension Act before the revision by the provisions of Article 1 of the 1985 Amendment Act, makes a notification under the provisions of paragraph (1), and the period pertaining to the notification is included in the premium-paid period pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the amount of the pension is revised from the month following the month in which the day on which that notification was made falls.

④With regard to the application of the provisions of Article 18 of the Supplementary Provisions of the 1985 Amendment Act to a person for whom the period pertaining to the notification under paragraph (1) has been included in the premium-paid period pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (2), 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 included in the premium-paid period on and after that day".

If a person who was an insured person subject to the provisions of Article 5, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the National Pension Act as of March 31, 2005 falls, as of April 1 of that year, under the provisions of Article 5, paragraph (5), item (iv) of the Supplementary Provisions of the National Pension Act after the revision by the provisions of Article 2, that person loses status as an insured person on that day.

①A person born in the period from April 2, 1955 to April 1, 1965 who falls under any of the following items (excluding a category 2 insured person prescribed in Article 7, paragraph (1), item (ii) of the National Pension Act) may, notwithstanding the provisions of Article 7, paragraph (1) of that Act, notify the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare and become an insured person of the National Pension; provided, however, that this does not apply if that person has the right to receive an old-age basic pension under that Act, an old-age employees' pension under the Employees' Pension Insurance Act, or any other benefit in the form of a pension for which the ground for payment is old age or retirement that is specified by Cabinet Order.

②If a person who falls under item (i) of the preceding paragraph intends to make the notification under the provisions of that paragraph, the person must make to the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare a notification stating that the person wishes to entrust a financial institution holding the person's deposit account or savings account with withdrawing the deposit or savings and paying the premiums with the money so withdrawn (hereinafter referred to in this paragraph as "payment by account transfer"), or a notification stating that the person's case falls under a case specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare as a case where there is a justifiable reason for not making payment by account transfer.

③If an insured person under the provisions of Article 5, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the National Pension Act (limited to a person born in the period from April 2, 1955 to April 1, 1965) reaches 65 years of age, and does not have the right to receive the benefit specified by Cabinet Order prescribed in the proviso to paragraph (1), the notification under the preceding two paragraphs is deemed to have been made.

④A person who has made the notification under the provisions of paragraph (2) (or, for a person set forth in item (ii) of paragraph (1), that paragraph) is to acquire status as an insured person of the National Pension on the day on which the person made that notification (or, for a person deemed to have made the notification pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the day on which the person reached 65 years of age).

⑤An insured person of the National Pension under the provisions of paragraph (1) may, at any time, notify the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare and lose status as an insured person.

⑥An insured person of the National Pension under the provisions of paragraph (1) loses status as an insured person on the day following the day on which the person comes to fall under any of the following items (or, if the person comes to fall under item (ii), (iv) or (v), on that day).

⑦An insured person of the National Pension who is a person set forth in item (i) of paragraph (1) loses status as that insured person, in addition to losing it pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, on the day following the day on which the person comes to fall under any of the following items (or, if the person acquires status as an insured person of the National Pension again on the day on which the person comes to fall under item (i), on that day).

⑧An insured person of the National Pension who is a person set forth in item (ii) of paragraph (1) loses status as that insured person, in addition to losing it pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (6), on the day following the day on which the person comes to fall under any of the following items (or, if the person acquires status as an insured person of the National Pension again on the day on which that fact occurred, on that day).

⑨An insured period of the National Pension as an insured person of the National Pension under the provisions of paragraph (1) is deemed to be, respectively, an insured period of the National Pension as an insured person prescribed in Article 7, paragraph (1), item (i) of the National Pension Act for the purposes of the application of the provisions of Article 5, paragraph (1) of that Act, and an insured period of the National Pension as a category 1 insured person for the purposes of the application of the provisions of Articles 52-2 through 52-5 of that Act and Article 9-3 and Article 9-3-2 of the Supplementary Provisions of that Act.

⑩The provisions of Article 88-2 through Article 90-3 of the National Pension Act do not apply to an insured person of the National Pension under the provisions of paragraph (1).

The provisions then in force continue to govern the amount of the lump-sum withdrawal payment under the National Pension Act that pertains only to a premium-paid period before April 2005 (limited to one pertaining to a category 1 insured person) and a half premium exemption period.

The provisions then in force continue to govern the application of penal provisions to conduct engaged in before this Act (or, for the provisions prescribed in the proviso to Article 1 of the Supplementary Provisions, those provisions) comes into effect.

Beyond what is provided for in these Supplementary Provisions, transitional measures necessary incidental to the enforcement of this Act are specified by Cabinet Order.