The insured and the employer employing the insured each bear half the cost of the insurance premiums.
被保険者及び被保険者を使用する事業主は、それぞれ保険料の半額を負担する。
An employer has the obligation to pay the insurance premiums borne by the insureds it employs and those that it bears itself.
事業主は、その使用する被保険者及び自己の負担する保険料を納付する義務を負う。
If an insured is employed by two or more places of business or ships at the same time, the amount of insurance premiums that is to be borne by each employer and the obligation to pay insurance premiums is as prescribed by Cabinet Order.
When the provisions of paragraph (1) are applied to a category II EPI insured, the phrase "the employer employing the insured each bear half the cost of the insurance premiums" in that paragraph is deemed to be the phrase "the employer (including an employee organization as provided for in Article 99 paragraph (6) of the National Public Officers Mutual Aid Association Act and other persons specified by Cabinet Order) employing the insured each bear half the cost of the insurance premiums, as specified by Cabinet Order".
第二号厚生年金被保険者についての第一項の規定の適用については、同項中「事業主は」とあるのは、「事業主（国家公務員共済組合法第九十九条第六項に規定する職員団体その他政令で定める者を含む。）は、政令で定めるところにより」とする。
When the provisions of paragraph (1) are applied to a category III EPI insured, the phrase "the employer employing the insured each bear half the cost of the insurance premiums" in that paragraph is deemed to be the phrase "the employer (including a prefecture who bears the salary pursuant to the provisions of Article 1 or Article 2 of the Act on Sharing of Salaries for Personnel of Municipal Schools (Act No. 135 of 1948)) employing the insured each bear half the cost of the insurance premiums, as specified by Cabinet Order".
第三号厚生年金被保険者についての第一項の規定の適用については、同項中「事業主は」とあるのは、「事業主（市町村立学校職員給与負担法（昭和二十三年法律第百三十五号）第一条又は第二条の規定により給与を負担する都道府県その他政令で定める者を含む。）は、政令で定めるところにより」とする。
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(Burden of Insurance Premiums and Obligation to Pay)
The insured and the employer employing the insured each bear half the cost of the insurance premiums.
被保険者及び被保険者を使用する事業主は、それぞれ保険料の半額を負担する。
Open this provisioncategory II EPI insured
「第二号厚生年金被保険者」
An insured covered by employees' pension insurance (厚生年金保険) who is a member of a National Public Servants Mutual Aid Association (国家公務員共済組合), as Article 2-5, paragraph (1), item (ii) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act provides; for these insureds the implementing organizations (実施機関), which handle matters such as their status, insured periods, insurance benefits and insurance premiums, are those mutual aid associations and the Federation of National Public Service Personnel Mutual Aid Associations (国家公務員共済組合連合会).
Short name set inArticle 2-5, paragraph (1), item (ii)
category III EPI insured
「第三号厚生年金被保険者」
An insured covered by employees' pension insurance (厚生年金保険) who is a member of a mutual aid association of local government officials (地方公務員共済組合), as Article 2-5, paragraph (1), item (iii) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act provides; for these insureds the implementing organizations (実施機関), which handle matters such as their status, insured periods, insurance benefits and insurance premiums, are those mutual aid associations, the National Federation of Mutual Aid Associations for Municipal Personnel (全国市町村職員共済組合連合会) and the Pension Fund Association for Local Government Officials (地方公務員共済組合連合会).
Short name set inArticle 2-5, paragraph (1), item (iii)
place of business
「事業所」
Short for a place of business or an office (事業所又は事務所).
Short name set inArticle 6, paragraph (1)
shipmachine translation
「船舶」
Except in Article 59-2, a ship manned by persons employed as mariners (船員) by a shipowner (船舶所有者); such a ship is an applicable place of business (適用事業所) under Article 6, paragraph (1), item (iii).
Short name set inArticle 6, paragraph (1), item (iii)· applies from here on, except in Article 59-2
employermachine translation
「事業主」
Throughout this Act except Article 100, paragraphs (1) and (4), Article 102, paragraph (2) and Article 103, the employer (事業主) of a place of business covered by employees' pension insurance (適用事業所), or the employer of another place of business who has consented, under Article 10, paragraph (2), to a person under 70 employed there becoming insured with the approval of the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare.
Short name set inArticle 27, paragraph (1)· applies from here on, except in Article 100, paragraphs (1) and (4); Article 102, paragraph (2); and Article 103