Article 43Retirement Allowances

①When a covered employee falls under any of the following items, the Organization pays a retirement allowance to that person in accordance with the specified-industry number of months of paid premiums for that person (meaning the total number of days for which premiums have been paid under the specified-industry retirement allowance mutual aid contract for that covered employee (where that person is a person who has already received payment of a retirement allowance, excluding the days that formed the basis for calculating the amount of that retirement allowance), converted into a number of months by a method specified by Cabinet Order in consideration of the working conditions of persons engaged in that specified industry; the same applies hereinafter); provided, however, that this does not apply where the specified-industry number of months of paid premiums is less than 24 months (12 months where the covered employee falls under item (i) or item (ii), (a), or is a covered employee under a specified-industry retirement allowance mutual aid contract relating to a specified industry designated by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare).

②When a mutual aid policyholder becomes an employer that is not a small and medium-sized enterprise (excluding the case where the approval referred to in the proviso to paragraph (2) of the preceding Article has been given) or ceases to be an employer of a business belonging to the specified industry concerned, for the purpose of applying item (ii) or item (iii) of the preceding paragraph, the covered employee is deemed to have retired.

③When a covered employee comes to be employed for an indefinite period by the employer that currently employs that person, that person is deemed to have fallen under paragraph (1), item (ii), (c).

④The retirement allowance due to a covered employee's falling under paragraph (1), item (i) or item (ii), (a) is paid to the bereaved family members of the deceased person.

⑤The amount of a retirement allowance is specified by Cabinet Order for each specified industry, in accordance with the daily amount of premiums and the specified-industry number of months of paid premiums, and taking into consideration the method of calculating the amount of a retirement allowance under Article 10, paragraph (2) and other circumstances.