# 厚生年金保険法 / Employees' Pension Insurance Act — 第四十三条の三 (Article 43-3)

- 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: 第四十三条の三 (Article 43-3) — address `art-43-3`
- Text in force since: 2026-10-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-43-3
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-43-3
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### 第四十三条の三
<sup>art-43-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-43-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-43-3</sup>

  **第一項**  受給権者が六十五歳に達した日の属する年度の初日の属する年の三年後の年の四月一日の属する年度（第四十三条の五において「基準年度」という。）以後において適用される再評価率（以下「基準年度以後再評価率」という。）の改定については、前条の規定にかかわらず、物価変動率（物価変動率が名目手取り賃金変動率を上回るときは、名目手取り賃金変動率）を基準とする。
  <sup>art-43-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-43-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-43-3/par-1</sup>
  Notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding Article, the price fluctuation rate (or, if the price fluctuation rate exceeds the rate of fluctuation in nominal net wages, the rate of fluctuation in nominal net wages) is the basis for the revision of the revaluation rate that applies in and after the fiscal year (referred to in Article 43-5 as the "base fiscal year") that includes the April 1 of the calendar year that falls three years after the calendar year which includes the first day of the fiscal year in which the day on which the beneficiary reaches 65 years of age falls (hereinafter referred to as the "post-base fiscal year revaluation rate").
  <sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

  **第二項**  前年度の標準報酬及び前々年度等の標準報酬に係る基準年度以後再評価率の改定については、前項の規定にかかわらず、前条第二項各号の規定を適用する。
  <sup>art-43-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-43-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-43-3/par-2</sup>
  Notwithstanding the provisions of preceding paragraph, the provisions of the items under paragraph (2) of the preceding Article apply to the revision of the post-base fiscal year revaluation rate for the standardized remuneration in the previous fiscal year and the standardized remuneration two or three fiscal years prior.
  <sup>Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>

  **第三項**  前二項の規定による基準年度以後再評価率の改定の措置は、政令で定める。
  <sup>art-43-3/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-43-3/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-43-3/par-3</sup>
  Cabinet Order provides for measures to revise the post-base fiscal year revaluation rate under the provisions of the preceding two paragraphs.
  <sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- art-43-3/par-1: 第四十三条の五 → 厚生年金保険法 第四十三条の五 (Article 43-5), art-43-5 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-43-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-43-5
- art-43-3/par-1: 前条 → 厚生年金保険法 第四十三条の二 (Article 43-2), art-43-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-43-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-43-2
- art-43-3/par-2: 前項 → 厚生年金保険法 第四十三条の三第一項 (Article 43-3, paragraph (1)), art-43-3/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-43-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-43-3/par-1
- art-43-3/par-2: 前条第二項 → 厚生年金保険法 第四十三条の二第二項 (Article 43-2, paragraph (2)), art-43-2/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-43-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-43-2/par-2
- art-43-3/par-3: 前二項 → 厚生年金保険法 第四十三条の三第一項 (Article 43-3, paragraph (1)), art-43-3/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-43-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-43-3/par-1
- art-43-3/par-3: 前二項 → 厚生年金保険法 第四十三条の三第二項 (Article 43-3, paragraph (2)), art-43-3/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-43-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-43-3/par-2

## Cited by

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

- 厚生年金保険法 第四十三条の三第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-43-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-43-3/par-2
- 厚生年金保険法 第四十三条の三第三項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-43-3/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-43-3/par-3
- 厚生年金保険法 第四十三条の四第一項（調整期間における再評価率の改定等の特例） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-43-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-43-4/par-1
- 厚生年金保険法 第四十三条の五第四項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-43-5/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-43-5/par-4
- 厚生年金保険法 附則第十七条の四第十項（平均標準報酬月額の改定） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3291-115/art-17-4/par-10 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3291-115/art-17-4/par-10
- 厚生年金保険法 附則第十七条の七第一項（年金たる保険給付の額の改定の特例） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3291-115/art-17-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3291-115/art-17-7/par-1
- 厚生年金保険法 附則第十七条の七第二項（年金たる保険給付の額の改定の特例） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3291-115/art-17-7/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3291-115/art-17-7/par-2
- 厚生年金保険法 附則第十七条の七第三項（年金たる保険給付の額の改定の特例） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3291-115/art-17-7/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3291-115/art-17-7/par-3
- 厚生年金保険法 附則第二十一条第四項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-4121-18/art-21/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-4121-18/art-21/par-4
- 厚生年金保険法 附則第三十条第一項（平成十七年度から平成二十年度までにおける再評価率の改定等に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-4161-104/art-30/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-4161-104/art-30/par-1
- 厚生年金保険法 附則第八十二条第一項（再評価率の適用の特例） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-4241-63/art-82/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-4241-63/art-82/par-1
- 厚生年金保険法 附則第五条第一項（再評価率の改定に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-4281-114/art-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-4281-114/art-5/par-1

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## 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
- claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch employees-pension-insurance-act-20261013T073658-001, translated 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
