# 厚生年金保険法 / Employees' Pension Insurance Act — 第八条 (Article 8) - 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: 第八条 (Article 8) — address `art-8` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-8 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-8 - 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. --- ### 第八条 art-8 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-8 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-8 **第一項** 第六条第三項の適用事業所の事業主は、厚生労働大臣の認可を受けて、当該事業所を適用事業所でなくすることができる。 art-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-8/par-1 An employer with an applicable place of business as referred to in Article 6, paragraph (3) may cause the place of business to cease to be an applicable place of business with the approval of the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の認可を受けようとするときは、当該事業所の事業主は、当該事業所に使用される者（第十二条に規定する者を除く。）の四分の三以上の同意を得て、厚生労働大臣に申請しなければならない。 art-8/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-8/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-8/par-2 If an employer with a place of business seeks the approval referred to in the preceding paragraph, the employer must file an application with the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare with the consent of at least three-quarters of the persons (excluding the persons prescribed in Article 12) employed at the place of business. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-8/par-1: 第六条第三項 → 厚生年金保険法 第六条第三項 (Article 6, paragraph (3)), art-6/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-6/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-6/par-3 - art-8/par-2: 前項 → 厚生年金保険法 第八条第一項 (Article 8, paragraph (1)), art-8/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-8/par-1 - art-8/par-2: 第十二条 → 厚生年金保険法 第十二条 (Article 12), art-12 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-12 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-12 ## Cited by 7 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 厚生年金保険法 第八条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-8/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-8/par-2 - 厚生年金保険法 第十四条第一項第三号（資格喪失の時期） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-14/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-14/par-1/item-3 - 厚生年金保険法 第二十九条第一項（通知） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-29/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-29/par-1 - 厚生年金保険法 第百条の四第一項第一号（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-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-100-4/par-1/item-1 - 厚生年金保険法 附則第四条の三第五項第一号（高齢任意加入被保険者） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3291-115/art-4-3/par-5/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3291-115/art-4-3/par-5/item-1 - 厚生年金保険法 附則第四条の六第六項第一号（適用除外の特例） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3291-115/art-4-6/par-6/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3291-115/art-4-6/par-6/item-1 - 厚生年金保険法 附則第十七条の二第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-4241-62/art-17-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-4241-62/art-17-2/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