# 厚生年金保険法 / Employees' Pension Insurance Act — 第七十八条の二十八 (Article 78-28) - 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: 第七十八条の二十八 (Article 78-28)（老齢厚生年金の支給の繰下げの特例） — address `art-78-28` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-78-28 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-78-28 - 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. --- ### 第七十八条の二十八（老齢厚生年金の支給の繰下げの特例） — (Special Provisions on Deferring Payment of Employees' Old-Age Pensions) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-78-28 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-78-28 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-78-28 **第一項** 第四十四条の三の規定は、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老齢厚生年金について適用する。この場合において、同条第一項ただし書中「他の年金たる保険給付」とあるのは「他の年金たる保険給付（当該老齢厚生年金と同一の支給事由に基づいて支給される老齢厚生年金を除く。）」と、同条第四項中「第四十六条第一項」とあるのは「第七十八条の二十九の規定により読み替えて適用する第四十六条第一項」とするほか、同条の規定の適用に関し必要な読替えその他必要な事項は、政令で定める。 art-78-28/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-78-28/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-78-28/par-1 The provisions of Article 44-3 apply to the employees' old-age pension of a person who has spent time as an insured in two or more categories. In such a case, the phrase "other pension insurance benefits" in the proviso to paragraph (1) of that Article is deemed to be replaced with "other pension insurance benefits (excluding an employees' old-age pension paid based on the same grounds for payment as the relevant employees' old-age pension)"; the phrase "Article 46, paragraph (1)" in paragraph (4) of that Article is deemed to be replaced with "Article 46, paragraph (1) as applied following a deemed replacement of terms pursuant to the provisions of Article 78-29"; and Cabinet Order provides for the necessary technical replacement of terms and other necessary particulars in connection with the application of the provisions of that Article. machine translation, not official **第二項** 前項の規定により第四十四条の三第一項の規定を適用する場合においては、一の期間に基づく老齢厚生年金についての同項の規定による申出は、他の期間に基づく老齢厚生年金についての当該申出と同時に行わなければならない。 art-78-28/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-78-28/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-78-28/par-2 When the provisions of Article 44-3, paragraph (1) are applied pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the request under the provisions of that paragraph concerning an employees' old-age pension based on the person's time in one category must be made at the same time as that request concerning an employees' old-age pension based on the person's time in another category. machine translation, not official **第三項** 第一項の規定により第四十四条の三第五項の規定を適用する場合においては、一の期間に基づく老齢厚生年金の受給権を取得した日から起算して五年を経過した日後の同条第一項の申出をしないで行う当該一の期間に基づく老齢厚生年金の請求は、他の期間に基づく老齢厚生年金の受給権を取得した日から起算して五年を経過した日後に同項の申出をしないで行う当該他の期間に基づく老齢厚生年金の請求と同時に行わなければならない。 art-78-28/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-78-28/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-78-28/par-3 When the provisions of Article 44-3, paragraph (5) are applied pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1), a claim for an employees' old-age pension based on time in one category, made without filing the request under paragraph (1) of that Article after the day that marks the passage of five years from the day on which the right to benefits from an employees' old-age pension based on that time in one category was acquired, must be made at the same time as a claim for an employees' old-age pension based on that time in another category, made without filing the request under that paragraph after the day that marks the passage of five years from the day on which the right to benefits from an employees' old-age pension based on time in another category was acquired. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-78-28/par-1: 第四十四条の三 → 厚生年金保険法 第四十四条の三 (Article 44-3), art-44-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-44-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-44-3 - art-78-28/par-1: 同条第一項 → 厚生年金保険法 第四十四条の三第一項 (Article 44-3, paragraph (1)), art-44-3/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-44-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-44-3/par-1 - art-78-28/par-1: 同条第四項 → 厚生年金保険法 第四十四条の三第四項 (Article 44-3, paragraph (4)), art-44-3/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-44-3/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-44-3/par-4 - art-78-28/par-1: 第四十六条第一項 → 厚生年金保険法 第四十六条第一項 (Article 46, paragraph (1)), art-46/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-46/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-46/par-1 - art-78-28/par-1: 第七十八条の二十九 → 厚生年金保険法 第七十八条の二十九 (Article 78-29), art-78-29 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-78-29 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-78-29 - art-78-28/par-2: 前項 → 厚生年金保険法 第七十八条の二十八第一項 (Article 78-28, paragraph (1)), art-78-28/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-78-28/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-78-28/par-1 - art-78-28/par-2: 第四十四条の三第一項 → 厚生年金保険法 第四十四条の三第一項 (Article 44-3, paragraph (1)), art-44-3/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-44-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-44-3/par-1 - art-78-28/par-3: 第一項 → 厚生年金保険法 第七十八条の二十八第一項 (Article 78-28, paragraph (1)), art-78-28/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-78-28/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-78-28/par-1 - art-78-28/par-3: 第四十四条の三第五項 → 厚生年金保険法 第四十四条の三第五項 (Article 44-3, paragraph (5)), art-44-3/par-5 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-44-3/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-44-3/par-5 - art-78-28/par-3: 同条第一項 → 厚生年金保険法 第四十四条の三第一項 (Article 44-3, paragraph (1)), art-44-3/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-44-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-44-3/par-1 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 厚生年金保険法 第七十八条の二十八第二項（老齢厚生年金の支給の繰下げの特例） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-78-28/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-78-28/par-2 - 厚生年金保険法 第七十八条の二十八第三項（老齢厚生年金の支給の繰下げの特例） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-78-28/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-78-28/par-3 --- ## 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-20261013T074650-001, 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