# 厚生年金保険法施行令 / Order for Enforcement of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act — 第三条の十二の八 (Article 3-12-8)

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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: 第三条の十二の八 (Article 3-12-8)（法第七十八条の十八第二項の規定において準用する法第七十八条の十第二項の規定の読替え） — address `art-3-12-8`
- Text in force since: 2026-10-01
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### 第三条の十二の八（法第七十八条の十八第二項の規定において準用する法第七十八条の十第二項の規定の読替え） — Replacement of Terms in Article 78-10, Paragraph (2) of the Act as Applied Mutatis Mutandis Pursuant to Article 78-18, Paragraph (2) of the Act
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>art-3-12-8 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act-enforcement-order/art-3-12-8</sup>

**第一項**  法第七十八条の十八第二項の規定により法第七十八条の十第二項の規定を準用する場合においては、同項本文中「障害厚生年金の受給権者」とあるのは「障害厚生年金の受給権者（特定被保険者（第七十八条の十四第一項に規定する特定被保険者をいう。）の被扶養配偶者（同項に規定する被扶養配偶者をいう。）に限る。）」と、「第七十八条の六第一項及び第二項」とあるのは「同条第二項及び第三項」と、「改定され、又は決定されたときは、改定又は決定」とあるのは「決定されたときは、決定」と、「当該標準報酬改定請求」とあるのは「同条第一項の請求」と、同項ただし書中「離婚時みなし被保険者期間」とあるのは「第七十八条の十五に規定する被扶養配偶者みなし被保険者期間」と読み替えるものとする。
<sup>art-3-12-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act-enforcement-order/art-3-12-8/par-1</sup>
Where the provisions of Article 78-10, paragraph (2) of the Act are applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 78-18, paragraph (2) of the Act, the phrase "the beneficiary of a disability employees' pension" in the main clause of Article 78-10, paragraph (2) of the Act is deemed to be replaced with "the beneficiary of a disability employees' pension (limited to a dependent spouse (meaning a dependent spouse prescribed in Article 78-14, paragraph (1)) of a specific insured person (meaning a specific insured person prescribed in Article 78-14, paragraph (1)))", the phrase "Article 78-6, paragraph (1) and paragraph (2)" is deemed to be replaced with "Article 78-14, paragraphs (2) and (3)", the phrase "has been revised or decided" is deemed to be replaced with "has been decided", the phrase "after its revision or after it has been decided" is deemed to be replaced with "after it has been decided", the phrase "the request for standardized remuneration to be revised or decided" is deemed to be replaced with "the request under Article 78-14, paragraph (1)", and the phrase "the deemed insured period at divorce" in the proviso to Article 78-10, paragraph (2) of the Act is deemed to be replaced with "the deemed insured period of a dependent spouse prescribed in Article 78-15".
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- art-3-12-8: 法第七十八条の十八第二項 → 厚生年金保険法 第七十八条の十八第二項 (Article 78-18, paragraph (2)), art-78-18/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-78-18/par-2 (e-Gov law ID 329AC0000000115)
- art-3-12-8: 法第七十八条の十第二項 → 厚生年金保険法 第七十八条の十第二項 (Article 78-10, paragraph (2)), art-78-10/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-78-10/par-2 (e-Gov law ID 329AC0000000115)
- art-3-12-8/par-1: 法第七十八条の十八第二項 → 厚生年金保険法 第七十八条の十八第二項 (Article 78-18, paragraph (2)), art-78-18/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-78-18/par-2 (e-Gov law ID 329AC0000000115)
- art-3-12-8/par-1: 法第七十八条の十第二項 → 厚生年金保険法 第七十八条の十第二項 (Article 78-10, paragraph (2)), art-78-10/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-78-10/par-2 (e-Gov law ID 329AC0000000115)
- art-3-12-8/par-1: 第七十八条の十四第一項 → 厚生年金保険法 第七十八条の十四第一項 (Article 78-14, paragraph (1)), art-78-14/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-78-14/par-1 (e-Gov law ID 329AC0000000115)
- art-3-12-8/par-1: 第七十八条の六第一項 → 厚生年金保険法 第七十八条の六第一項 (Article 78-6, paragraph (1)), art-78-6/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-78-6/par-1 (e-Gov law ID 329AC0000000115)
- art-3-12-8/par-1: 第二項 → 厚生年金保険法 第七十八条の六第二項 (Article 78-6, paragraph (2)), art-78-6/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-78-6/par-2 (e-Gov law ID 329AC0000000115)
- art-3-12-8/par-1: 同条第二項 → 厚生年金保険法 第七十八条の十四第二項 (Article 78-14, paragraph (2)), art-78-14/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-78-14/par-2 (e-Gov law ID 329AC0000000115)
- art-3-12-8/par-1: 第三項 → 厚生年金保険法 第七十八条の十四第三項 (Article 78-14, paragraph (3)), art-78-14/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-78-14/par-3 (e-Gov law ID 329AC0000000115)
- art-3-12-8/par-1: 第七十八条の十五 → 厚生年金保険法 第七十八条の十五 (Article 78-15), art-78-15 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-78-15 (e-Gov law ID 329AC0000000115)

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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-20261106T164949-007, translated 2026-11-08
- 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
