# 厚生年金保険法 / Employees' Pension Insurance Act — 第八十一条の二の二 (Article 81-2-2) - 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: 第八十一条の二の二 (Article 81-2-2)（産前産後休業期間中の保険料の徴収の特例） — address `art-81-2-2` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-81-2-2 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-81-2-2 - 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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第八十一条の二の二（産前産後休業期間中の保険料の徴収の特例） — (Special Provisions on Collection of Insurance Premiums during Maternity Leave) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-81-2-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-81-2-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-81-2-2 **第一項** 産前産後休業をしている被保険者が使用される事業所の事業主が、主務省令で定めるところにより実施機関に申出をしたときは、第八十一条第二項の規定にかかわらず、当該被保険者に係る保険料であつてその産前産後休業を開始した日の属する月からその産前産後休業が終了する日の翌日が属する月の前月までの期間に係るものの徴収は行わない。 art-81-2-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-81-2-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-81-2-2/par-1 Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 81, paragraph (2), if the employer of the place of business at which an insured on maternity leave is employed has filed a request with the implementing organization as specified in the order of the competent ministry, the insured's insurance premiums are not collected during the period from the month that includes the day on which the maternity leave begins until the month before the month that includes the day after the maternity leave end date. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 第二号厚生年金被保険者又は第三号厚生年金被保険者に係る保険料について、前項の規定を適用する場合においては、同項中「被保険者が使用される事業所の事業主」とあるのは、「被保険者」とする。 art-81-2-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-81-2-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-81-2-2/par-2 When the provisions of the preceding paragraph are applied to a category II EPI insured or a category III EPI insured, the phrase "the employer of a place of business at which an insured on maternity leave is employed" in that paragraph is deemed to be the phrase "an insured on maternity leave". Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-81-2-2/par-1: 第八十一条第二項 → 厚生年金保険法 第八十一条第二項 (Article 81, paragraph (2)), art-81/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-81/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-81/par-2 - art-81-2-2/par-2: 前項 → 厚生年金保険法 第八十一条の二の二第一項 (Article 81-2-2, paragraph (1)), art-81-2-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-81-2-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-81-2-2/par-1 ## Cited by 9 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 厚生年金保険法 第二十六条第一項第六号（三歳に満たない子を養育する被保険者等の標準報酬月額の特例） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-26/par-1/item-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-26/par-1/item-6 - 厚生年金保険法 第八十一条の二第一項（育児休業期間中の保険料の徴収の特例） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-81-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-81-2/par-1 - 厚生年金保険法 第八十一条の二の二第二項（産前産後休業期間中の保険料の徴収の特例） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-81-2-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-81-2-2/par-2 - 厚生年金保険法 第八十四条の二第一項（保険料の徴収等の特例） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-84-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-84-2/par-1 - 厚生年金保険法 第百条の四第一項第二十七号（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-27 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-100-4/par-1/item-27 - 厚生年金保険法 第百条の十第一項第二十九号（機構への事務の委託） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-100-10/par-1/item-29 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-100-10/par-1/item-29 - 厚生年金保険法 附則第四十三条第十二項（第四種被保険者に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3601-34/art-43/par-12 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3601-34/art-43/par-12 - 厚生年金保険法 附則第十九条第一項（厚生年金保険の三歳に満たない子を養育する被保険者等の標準報酬月額の特例に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-4241-62/art-19/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-4241-62/art-19/par-1 - 厚生年金保険法 附則第二十条第一項（厚生年金保険の産前産後休業期間中の被保険者及び加入員の特例に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-4241-62/art-20/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-4241-62/art-20/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