# 厚生年金保険法 / Employees' Pension Insurance Act — 第三十一条 (Article 31) - Law: 厚生年金保険法 (Employees' Pension Insurance Act), 昭和二十九年法律第百十五号 - English title "Employees' Pension Insurance Act": Ministry of Justice translation - Kind: Act — 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: 第三十一条 (Article 31)（確認の請求） — address `art-31` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-31 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-31 - Every provision below carries its address and both URLs on the line under it. - Japanese text: e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁). English: as marked on each line below. Only the Japanese as published by the government has legal effect; the text below is a copy of it. Every English rendering below is a translation and says which kind: the Ministry of Justice's translation, or this site's machine translation, whose model and date the Sources list names. They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第三十一条（確認の請求） — (Request for Confirmation) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-31 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-31 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-31 **第一項** 被保険者又は被保険者であつた者は、いつでも、第十八条第一項の規定による確認を請求することができる。 art-31/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-31/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-31/par-1 An insured or former insured may, at any time, request a confirmation as under the provisions of Article 18, paragraph (1). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 厚生労働大臣は、前項の規定による請求があつた場合において、その請求に係る事実がないと認めるときは、その請求を却下しなければならない。 art-31/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-31/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-31/par-2 If a request under the provisions of the preceding paragraph has been made but the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare finds that a thing to which the request pertains is not a fact, the Minister must dismiss that request. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-31/par-1: 第十八条第一項 → 厚生年金保険法 第十八条第一項 (Article 18, paragraph (1)), art-18/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-18/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-18/par-1 - art-31/par-2: 前項 → 厚生年金保険法 第三十一条第一項 (Article 31, paragraph (1)), art-31/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-31/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-31/par-1 ## Cited by 5 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 厚生年金保険法 第十八条第二項（資格の得喪の確認） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-18/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-18/par-2 - 厚生年金保険法 第三十一条第二項（確認の請求） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-31/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-31/par-2 - 厚生年金保険法 第七十五条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-75/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-75/par-1 - 厚生年金保険法 第百条の四第一項第九号（機構への厚生労働大臣の権限に係る事務の委任） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-100-4/par-1/item-9 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-100-4/par-1/item-9 - 厚生年金保険法 附則第四十六条第一項（厚生年金保険の被保険者の種別の変更） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3601-34/art-46/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3601-34/art-46/par-1 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 厚生年金保険法 — the text in force from 2026-10-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/329AC0000000115/20261001_507AC0000000074), retrieved 2026-10-13 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Employees' Pension Insurance Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3554/tb), retrieved 2026-10-13 - This site's parser, version 190 — 厚生年金保険法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-13