# 厚生年金保険法 / Employees' Pension Insurance Act — 第八条の二 (Article 8-2) - 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: 第八条の二 (Article 8-2) — address `art-8-2` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-8-2 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-8-2 - 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. --- ### 第八条の二 art-8-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-8-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-8-2 **第一項** 二以上の適用事業所（船舶を除く。）の事業主が同一である場合には、当該事業主は、厚生労働大臣の承認を受けて、当該二以上の事業所を一の適用事業所とすることができる。 art-8-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-8-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-8-2/par-1 If the employer is the same for two or more applicable places of business (other than ships), the employer may treat those two or more places of business as one 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** 前項の承認があつたときは、当該二以上の適用事業所は、第六条の適用事業所でなくなつたものとみなす。 art-8-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-8-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-8-2/par-2 If the approval referred to in the preceding paragraph has been obtained, the relevant two or more applicable places of business are deemed to have ceased to be applicable places of business as referred to in Article 6. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-8-2/par-2: 前項 → 厚生年金保険法 第八条の二第一項 (Article 8-2, paragraph (1)), art-8-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-8-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-8-2/par-1 - art-8-2/par-2: 第六条 → 厚生年金保険法 第六条 (Article 6), art-6 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-6 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 厚生年金保険法 第八条の二第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-8-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-8-2/par-2 - 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 --- ## 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