# 厚生年金保険法 / Employees' Pension Insurance Act — 第九条 (Article 9) - 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: 第九条 (Article 9)（被保険者） — address `art-9` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-9 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-9 - 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. --- ### 第九条（被保険者） — (The Insured) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-9 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-9 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-9 **第一項** 適用事業所に使用される七十歳未満の者は、厚生年金保険の被保険者とする。 art-9/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-9/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-9/par-1 A person under 70 years of age who is employed at an applicable place of business is an insured covered by employees' pension insurance. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 12 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 厚生年金保険法 第十二条第一項（適用除外） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-12/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-12/par-1 - 厚生年金保険法 第十三条第一項（資格取得の時期） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-13/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-13/par-1 - 厚生年金保険法 第十四条第一項（資格喪失の時期） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-14/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-14/par-1 - 厚生年金保険法 附則第二条の三第二項（適用事業所に関する経過措置等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3291-115/art-2-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3291-115/art-2-3/par-2 - 厚生年金保険法 附則第四条の三第一項（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-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3291-115/art-4-3/par-1 - 厚生年金保険法 附則第四条の六第一項（適用除外の特例） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3291-115/art-4-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3291-115/art-4-6/par-1 - 厚生年金保険法 附則第四条の六第四項（適用除外の特例） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3291-115/art-4-6/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3291-115/art-4-6/par-4 - 厚生年金保険法 附則第四十三条第九項第三号（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-9/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3601-34/art-43/par-9/item-3 - 厚生年金保険法 附則第四十四条第七項（船員任意継続被保険者に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3601-34/art-44/par-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3601-34/art-44/par-7 - 厚生年金保険法 附則第十四条第一項（厚生年金保険の被保険者資格の取得及び喪失に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-4121-18/art-14/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-4121-18/art-14/par-1 - 厚生年金保険法 附則第十五条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-4121-18/art-15/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-4121-18/art-15/par-1 - 厚生年金保険法 附則第十七条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-4241-62/art-17/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-4241-62/art-17/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