# 厚生年金保険法 / Employees' Pension Insurance Act — 第七十八条の二十四 (Article 78-24) - 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: 第七十八条の二十四 (Article 78-24)（年金の支払の調整の特例） — address `art-78-24` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-78-24 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-78-24 - 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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第七十八条の二十四（年金の支払の調整の特例） — (Special Provisions on Adjustment of Pension Payments) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-78-24 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-78-24 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-78-24 **第一項** 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保険給付の受給権者について、第三十九条第一項及び第二項の規定を適用する場合においては、同条第一項中「乙年金の受給権者」とあるのは「第七十八条の二十二に規定する各号の厚生年金被保険者期間（以下この条において「各号の厚生年金被保険者期間」という。）のうち第七十八条の二十二に規定する一の期間（以下この条において「一の期間」という。）に基づく乙年金（以下この項において「乙年金」という。）の受給権者」と、「甲年金の受給権」とあるのは「当該一の期間に基づく甲年金（以下この項において「甲年金」という。）の受給権」と、同条第二項中「年金の支給」とあるのは「各号の厚生年金被保険者期間のうち一の期間に基づく年金の支給」と、「年金が支払われたとき」とあるのは「当該年金が支払われたとき」と、「年金の内払」とあるのは「当該一の期間に基づく年金の内払」と、「年金を減額して」とあるのは「各号の厚生年金被保険者期間のうち一の期間に基づく年金を減額して」と、「年金が支払われた場合」とあるのは「当該一の期間に基づく年金が支払われた場合」とする。 art-78-24/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-78-24/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-78-24/par-1 When the provisions of Article 39, paragraph (1) and paragraph (2) are applied to a person who has spent time as an insured in two or more categories, the phrase "beneficiary of a first pension" in paragraph (1) of that Article is deemed to be the phrases "beneficiary of a first pension (hereinafter referred to in this Article as the 'first pension') based on the person's time in one category as provided for in Article 78-22 (hereinafter referred to in this Article as the person's 'time in one category'), among the categories of EPI insured period provided for in Article 78-22 (hereinafter each of these is referred to in this Article as a 'category of EPI insured period')"; the phrase "right to receive benefits under a second pension" in that paragraph is deemed to be the phrase "right to receive benefits under a second pension based on the relevant time in one category (hereinafter referred to in this paragraph as 'a second pension')"; the phrase "the payment of a pension" in paragraph (2) of that Article is deemed to be the phrase "the payment of a pension based on the time in one category among the categories of EPI insured period"; the phrase "If... a pension has been paid" in that paragraph is deemed to be the phrase "If... the relevant pension has been paid"; the phrase "partial payment of the pension" in that paragraph is deemed to be the phrase "partial payment of the pension based on the relevant time in one category"; the phrase "by reducing its amount" in that paragraph is deemed to be the phrase "by reducing the amount of the pension based on the time in one category, among the categories of EPI insured period"; the phrase "if... a pension has been paid" in that paragraph is deemed to be the phrase "if... a pension based on the relevant time in one category has been paid". Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-78-24/par-1: 第三十九条第一項 → 厚生年金保険法 第三十九条第一項 (Article 39, paragraph (1)), art-39/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-39/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-39/par-1 - art-78-24/par-1: 第二項 → 厚生年金保険法 第三十九条第二項 (Article 39, paragraph (2)), art-39/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-39/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-39/par-2 - art-78-24/par-1: 第七十八条の二十二 → 厚生年金保険法 第七十八条の二十二 (Article 78-22), art-78-22 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-78-22 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-78-22 - art-78-24/par-1: この条 → 厚生年金保険法 第三十九条 (Article 39), art-39 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-39 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-39 --- ## 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