# 厚生年金保険法施行令 / Order for Enforcement of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act — 第十二条の二 (Article 12-2)

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- Law: 厚生年金保険法施行令 (Order for Enforcement of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act), 昭和二十九年政令第百十号
- English title "Order for Enforcement of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act": claude-opus-5-5
- Kind: CabinetOrder — the distinction between 法律 (Act), 政令 (Cabinet Order), 省令 (Ministerial Order) and 条例 (local ordinance) decides who may issue it and what it may say.
- Provision: 第十二条の二 (Article 12-2)（法附則第二十九条第四項に規定する政令で定める数） — address `art-12-2`
- Text in force since: 2026-10-01
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### 第十二条の二（法附則第二十九条第四項に規定する政令で定める数） — Number Specified by Cabinet Order in Article 29, paragraph (4) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>art-12-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act-enforcement-order/art-12-2</sup>

**第一項**  法附則第二十九条第四項に規定する政令で定める数は、次の表の上欄に掲げる被保険者であつた期間に係る被保険者期間の区分に応じて、それぞれ同表の下欄に定める数とする。
六月以上一二月未満	六
一二月以上一八月未満	一二
一八月以上二四月未満	一八
二四月以上三〇月未満	二四
三〇月以上三六月未満	三〇
三六月以上四二月未満	三六
四二月以上四八月未満	四二
四八月以上五四月未満	四八
五四月以上六〇月未満	五四
六〇月以上	六〇
<sup>art-12-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act-enforcement-order/art-12-2/par-1</sup>
The number specified by Cabinet Order prescribed in Article 29, paragraph (4) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act is the number specified in the right-hand column of the following table, according to the category of the insured period relating to the period during which the person was an insured person set forth in the left-hand column of the same table.
6 months or more and less than 12 months	6
12 months or more and less than 18 months	12
18 months or more and less than 24 months	18
24 months or more and less than 30 months	24
30 months or more and less than 36 months	30
36 months or more and less than 42 months	36
42 months or more and less than 48 months	42
48 months or more and less than 54 months	48
54 months or more and less than 60 months	54
60 months or more	60
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- art-12-2: 法附則第二十九条第四項 → 厚生年金保険法 附則第二十九条第四項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 29, paragraph (4)), suppl-3291-115/art-29/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3291-115/art-29/par-4 (e-Gov law ID 329AC0000000115)
- art-12-2/par-1: 法附則第二十九条第四項 → 厚生年金保険法 附則第二十九条第四項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 29, paragraph (4)), suppl-3291-115/art-29/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3291-115/art-29/par-4 (e-Gov law ID 329AC0000000115)

## Cited by

3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction.

- 厚生年金保険法施行令 第三条の十二の三第一項（法第七十八条の十一に規定する政令で定める規定の適用に関する読替え） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act-enforcement-order/art-3-12-3/par-1
- 厚生年金保険法施行令 第三条の十二の九第一項（法第七十八条の十九に規定する政令で定める規定の適用に関する読替え） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act-enforcement-order/art-3-12-9/par-1
- 厚生年金保険法施行令 第十六条第二項（二以上の種別の被保険者であつた期間を有する者に係る脱退一時金の支給要件等に関する読替え等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act-enforcement-order/art-16/par-2

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## Sources

- claude-opus-5-5 — English title of a law in this collection, written for this site, written 2026-11-06
- e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 厚生年金保険法施行令 — the text in force from 2026-10-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/329CO0000000110/20261001_508CO0000000276), retrieved 2026-11-06
- claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch employees-pension-insurance-act-enforcement-order-20261106T164949-033, translated 2026-11-07
- This site's parser, version 229 — 厚生年金保険法施行令 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-06
