Supplementary Provisions, Article 17
第十七条
For the time being, a person who is employed at an applicable place of business other than a specified applicable place of business (meaning an applicable place of business under Article 6 of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act; the same applies hereinafter in this Article and Article 17-3 of the Supplementary Provisions) (excluding an applicable place of business of the national government or a local government; the same applies hereinafter in this Article), who is listed in item (i) or item (ii), and who does not fall under any item of Article 12 of that Act (excluding a person to whom the provisions of Article 12 of that Act (limited to the part pertaining to item (v)) do not apply pursuant to the provisions of the preceding Article; hereinafter referred to in this Article and Article 17-3 of the Supplementary Provisions as a "specified under-three-quarters part-time worker") is not an insured covered by employees' pension insurance, notwithstanding the provisions of Article 9 of that Act and Article 4-3, paragraph (1) and Article 4-6, paragraphs (2) and (4) of the Supplementary Provisions of that Act.
a part-time worker (meaning a part-time worker prescribed in Article 12, item (v) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act; the same applies in the following item) whose scheduled working hours per week are less than three-quarters of the scheduled working hours per week of an ordinary worker (meaning an ordinary worker prescribed in Article 12, item (v) of that Act; the same applies in the following item) employed at the same place of business or office (hereinafter simply referred to as the "place of business");
a part-time worker whose prescribed working days per month are less than three-quarters of the prescribed working days per month of an ordinary worker employed at the same place of business.
The provisions of the preceding paragraph do not apply to a specified under-three-quarters part-time worker employed at an applicable place of business that has ceased to be a specified applicable place of business; provided, however, that this does not apply if the employer of the applicable place of business, having obtained the consent specified in each of the following items in accordance with the case set forth in that item, has filed with the implementing organization (meaning the implementing organization prescribed in Article 2-5, paragraph (1) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act, limited to the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare and the Promotion and Mutual Aid Corporation for Private Schools of Japan; the same applies hereinafter) a request to be subject to the application of the provisions of the preceding paragraph with regard to that specified under-three-quarters part-time worker.
特定適用事業所に該当しなくなった適用事業所に使用される特定四分の三未満短時間労働者については、前項の規定は、適用しない。ただし、当該適用事業所の事業主が、次の各号に掲げる場合に応じ、当該各号に定める同意を得て、実施機関（厚生年金保険法第二条の五第一項に規定する実施機関をいい、厚生労働大臣及び日本私立学校振興・共済事業団に限る。以下同じ。）に当該特定四分の三未満短時間労働者について前項の規定の適用を受ける旨の申出をした場合は、この限りでない。
if there is a labor union organized by three-quarters or more of the insureds covered by employees' pension insurance employed at one or more applicable places of business of the employer, the specified persons under the reduced minimum wage exception prescribed in Article 4-6, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act (excluding those insureds covered by employees' pension insurance), and the employed persons age 70 or over (meaning the employed persons age 70 or over prescribed in Article 27 of that Act; the same applies in paragraph (5), item (i)) (hereinafter referred to as the "persons whose consent by three-quarters is required"): the consent of that labor union;
if there is no labor union prescribed in the preceding item: the consent listed in (a) or (b).
前号に規定する労働組合がないとき イ又はロに掲げる同意
the consent of a person representing three-quarters or more of the persons whose consent by three-quarters is required employed at one or more applicable places of business of the employer;
当該事業主の一又は二以上の適用事業所に使用される四分の三以上同意対象者の四分の三以上を代表する者の同意
the consent of three-quarters or more of the persons whose consent by three-quarters is required employed at one or more applicable places of business of the employer.
当該事業主の一又は二以上の適用事業所に使用される四分の三以上同意対象者の四分の三以上の同意
The request under the proviso to the preceding paragraph must, in the case of an employer that is able to make a request under the proviso to Article 46, paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisions pursuant to the provisions of the proviso to that paragraph, be made at the same time as that request.
When a request under the proviso to paragraph (2) has been made, the specified under-three-quarters part-time worker (limited to a person who holds status as an insured covered by employees' pension insurance) loses status as an insured covered by employees' pension insurance on the day following the day on which the request was accepted.
第二項ただし書の申出があったときは、当該特定四分の三未満短時間労働者（厚生年金保険の被保険者の資格を有する者に限る。）は、当該申出が受理された日の翌日に、厚生年金保険の被保険者の資格を喪失する。
The employer of an applicable place of business other than a specified applicable place of business (including an applicable place of business that employs a specified under-three-quarters part-time worker to whom the provisions of paragraph (1) do not apply pursuant to the main clause of paragraph (2)) may, having obtained the consent specified in each of the following items in accordance with the case set forth in that item, file with the implementing organization a request to the effect that the provisions of paragraph (1) are not to apply to the specified under-three-quarters part-time workers employed at one or more applicable places of business of the employer.
if there is a labor union organized by a majority of the insureds covered by employees' pension insurance, the employed persons age 70 or over, and the specified under-three-quarters part-time workers employed at one or more applicable places of business of the employer (referred to in the following item and in Article 46, paragraph (5) of the Supplementary Provisions as the "persons whose consent by one-half is required"): the consent of that labor union;
当該事業主の一又は二以上の適用事業所に使用される厚生年金保険の被保険者、七十歳以上の使用される者及び特定四分の三未満短時間労働者（次号及び附則第四十六条第五項において「二分の一以上同意対象者」という。）の過半数で組織する労働組合があるとき 当該労働組合の同意
if there is no labor union prescribed in the preceding item: the consent listed in (a) or (b).
前号に規定する労働組合がないとき イ又はロに掲げる同意
the consent of a person representing a majority of the persons whose consent by one-half is required employed at one or more applicable places of business of the employer;
the consent of one-half or more of the persons whose consent by one-half is required employed at one or more applicable places of business of the employer.
The request under the preceding paragraph must, in the case of an employer that is able to make a request under Article 46, paragraph (5) of the Supplementary Provisions pursuant to the provisions of that paragraph, be made at the same time as that request.
When a request under paragraph (5) has been made, the provisions of paragraph (1) do not apply to the specified under-three-quarters part-time worker on or after the day on which that request is accepted. In this case, with regard to the application of Article 13, paragraph (1) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act to that specified under-three-quarters part-time worker, the phrase "the day on which the person comes to be employed at an applicable place of business, the day on which the relevant place of business becomes an applicable place of business, or the day on which the person ceases to be subject to the provisions of the preceding Article" in that paragraph is deemed to be replaced with "the day on which the request under Article 17, paragraph (5) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the National Pension Act, etc. to Strengthen, etc. the Financial Basis and Minimum Guarantee Function of the Public Pension System (Act No. 62 of 2012) is accepted".
第五項の申出があったときは、当該特定四分の三未満短時間労働者については、当該申出が受理された日以後においては、第一項の規定は、適用しない。この場合において、当該特定四分の三未満短時間労働者についての厚生年金保険法第十三条第一項の規定の適用については、同項中「適用事業所に使用されるに至つた日若しくはその使用される事業所が適用事業所となつた日又は前条の規定に該当しなくなつた」とあるのは、「公的年金制度の財政基盤及び最低保障機能の強化等のための国民年金法等の一部を改正する法律（平成二十四年法律第六十二号）附則第十七条第五項の申出が受理された」とする。
An employer that has made a request under paragraph (5) may, having obtained the consent specified in each of the following items in accordance with the case set forth in that item, file with the implementing organization a request to be subject to the application of the provisions of paragraph (1) with regard to the specified under-three-quarters part-time workers employed at one or more applicable places of business of the employer; provided, however, that this does not apply if an applicable place of business of the employer falls under a specified applicable place of business.
if there is a labor union organized by three-quarters or more of the persons whose consent by three-quarters is required employed at one or more applicable places of business of the employer: the consent of that labor union;
当該事業主の一又は二以上の適用事業所に使用される四分の三以上同意対象者の四分の三以上で組織する労働組合があるとき 当該労働組合の同意
if there is no labor union prescribed in the preceding item: the consent listed in (a) or (b).
前号に規定する労働組合がないとき イ又はロに掲げる同意
the consent of a person representing three-quarters or more of the persons whose consent by three-quarters is required employed at one or more applicable places of business of the employer;
当該事業主の一又は二以上の適用事業所に使用される四分の三以上同意対象者の四分の三以上を代表する者の同意
the consent of three-quarters or more of the persons whose consent by three-quarters is required employed at one or more applicable places of business of the employer.
当該事業主の一又は二以上の適用事業所に使用される四分の三以上同意対象者の四分の三以上の同意
The request under the preceding paragraph must, in the case of an employer that is able to make a request under Article 46, paragraph (8) of the Supplementary Provisions pursuant to the provisions of that paragraph, be made at the same time as that request.
When a request under paragraph (8) has been made, the specified under-three-quarters part-time worker (limited to a person who holds status as an insured covered by employees' pension insurance) loses status as an insured covered by employees' pension insurance on the day following the day on which the request was accepted.
第八項の申出があったときは、当該特定四分の三未満短時間労働者（厚生年金保険の被保険者の資格を有する者に限る。）は、当該申出が受理された日の翌日に、厚生年金保険の被保険者の資格を喪失する。
The affairs pertaining to the authority to accept requests on the part of the implementing organization (limited to the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare) under the provisions of the proviso to paragraph (2), paragraph (5) and paragraph (8) are to be carried out by the JPS. In this case, the phrase "the Employees' Pension Insurance Act" in Article 23, paragraph (3) of the Japan Pension Organization Act (Act No. 109 of 2007) is deemed to be replaced with "the Employees' Pension Insurance Act or the Act Partially Amending the National Pension Act, etc. to Strengthen, etc. the Financial Basis and Minimum Guarantee Function of the Public Pension System (Act No. 62 of 2012)", the phrase "the Employees' Pension Insurance Act" in Article 26, paragraph (2) of that Act with "the Employees' Pension Insurance Act or the Act Partially Amending the National Pension Act, etc. to Strengthen, etc. the Financial Basis and Minimum Guarantee Function of the Public Pension System", the phrase "administrative functions related to the authority prescribed in Article 100-4, paragraph (1) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act, the administrative functions prescribed in Article 100-10, paragraph (1) of that Act" in Article 27, paragraph (1), item (i) of that Act with "administrative functions related to the authority prescribed in Article 100-4, paragraph (1) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act and the proviso to Article 17, paragraph (2), and paragraphs (5) and (8) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the National Pension Act, etc. to Strengthen, etc. the Financial Basis and Minimum Guarantee Function of the Public Pension System, the administrative functions prescribed in Article 100-10, paragraph (1) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act", and the phrase "the Employees' Pension Insurance Act" in Article 48, paragraph (1) of that Act with "the Employees' Pension Insurance Act or the Act Partially Amending the National Pension Act, etc. to Strengthen, etc. the Financial Basis and Minimum Guarantee Function of the Public Pension System".
第二項ただし書、第五項及び第八項の規定による実施機関（厚生労働大臣に限る。）の申出の受理の権限に係る事務は、日本年金機構に行わせるものとする。この場合において、日本年金機構法（平成十九年法律第百九号）第二十三条第三項中「厚生年金保険法」とあるのは「厚生年金保険法若しくは公的年金制度の財政基盤及び最低保障機能の強化等のための国民年金法等の一部を改正する法律（平成二十四年法律第六十二号）」と、同法第二十六条第二項中「厚生年金保険法」とあるのは「厚生年金保険法若しくは公的年金制度の財政基盤及び最低保障機能の強化等のための国民年金法等の一部を改正する法律」と、同法第二十七条第一項第一号中「に規定する権限に係る事務、同法」とあるのは「並びに公的年金制度の財政基盤及び最低保障機能の強化等のための国民年金法等の一部を改正する法律附則第十七条第二項ただし書、第五項及び第八項に規定する権限に係る事務、厚生年金保険法」と、同法第四十八条第一項中「厚生年金保険法」とあるのは「厚生年金保険法若しくは公的年金制度の財政基盤及び最低保障機能の強化等のための国民年金法等の一部を改正する法律」とする。
In this Article, a specified applicable place of business means each applicable place of business of one or more applicable places of business that have the same employer, where the total number of specified workers employed at those one or more applicable places of business (meaning persons under 70 years of age who do not fall under any item of Article 12 of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act and who are other than specified under-three-quarters part-time workers; the same applies in Article 46, paragraph (12) of the Supplementary Provisions) regularly exceeds 50.
この条において特定適用事業所とは、事業主が同一である一又は二以上の適用事業所であって、当該一又は二以上の適用事業所に使用される特定労働者（七十歳未満の者のうち、厚生年金保険法第十二条各号のいずれにも該当しないものであって、特定四分の三未満短時間労働者以外のものをいう。附則第四十六条第十二項において同じ。）の総数が常時五十人を超えるものの各適用事業所をいう。