# 厚生年金保険法 / Employees' Pension Insurance Act — 第十六条の三 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 16-3)

- 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: 第十六条の三 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 16-3)（障害厚生年金の特例） — address `suppl-3291-115/art-16-3`
- Text in force since: 2026-10-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3291-115/art-16-3
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3291-115/art-16-3
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### 第十六条の三（障害厚生年金の特例） — Special Provisions on Employees' Disability Pension
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>suppl-3291-115/art-16-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3291-115/art-16-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3291-115/art-16-3</sup>

**第一項**  第四十七条の二、第四十七条の三、第五十二条第四項、第五十二条の二第二項及び第五十四条第二項ただし書の規定は、当分の間、附則第七条の三第三項若しくは第十三条の四第三項の規定による老齢厚生年金の受給権者又は国民年金法附則第九条の二第三項若しくは第九条の二の二第三項の規定による老齢基礎年金の受給権者については、適用しない。
<sup>suppl-3291-115/art-16-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3291-115/art-16-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3291-115/art-16-3/par-1</sup>
The provisions of Article 47-2, Article 47-3, Article 52, paragraph (4), Article 52-2, paragraph (2) and the proviso to Article 54, paragraph (2) do not apply, for the time being, to a beneficiary of an employees' old-age pension under the provisions of Article 7-3, paragraph (3) or Article 13-4, paragraph (3) of the Supplementary Provisions, or to a beneficiary of an old-age basic pension under the provisions of Article 9-2, paragraph (3) or Article 9-2-2, paragraph (3) of the Supplementary Provisions of the National Pension Act.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

**第二項**  第五十二条第七項の規定の適用については、当分の間、同項中「六十五歳以上の者」とあるのは、「六十五歳以上の者又は国民年金法による老齢基礎年金の受給権者」とする。
<sup>suppl-3291-115/art-16-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3291-115/art-16-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3291-115/art-16-3/par-2</sup>
For the purpose of applying Article 52, paragraph (7), for the time being, the phrase "a person who is 65 years of age or older" in that paragraph is deemed to be replaced with "a person who is 65 years of age or older or a beneficiary of an old-age basic pension under the National Pension Act".
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- suppl-3291-115/art-16-3/par-1: 第四十七条の二 → 厚生年金保険法 第四十七条の二 (Article 47-2), art-47-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-47-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-47-2
- suppl-3291-115/art-16-3/par-1: 第四十七条の三 → 厚生年金保険法 第四十七条の三 (Article 47-3), art-47-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-47-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-47-3
- suppl-3291-115/art-16-3/par-1: 第五十二条第四項 → 厚生年金保険法 第五十二条第四項 (Article 52, paragraph (4)), art-52/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-52/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-52/par-4
- suppl-3291-115/art-16-3/par-1: 第五十二条の二第二項 → 厚生年金保険法 第五十二条の二第二項 (Article 52-2, paragraph (2)), art-52-2/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-52-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-52-2/par-2
- suppl-3291-115/art-16-3/par-1: 第五十四条第二項 → 厚生年金保険法 第五十四条第二項 (Article 54, paragraph (2)), art-54/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-54/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-54/par-2
- suppl-3291-115/art-16-3/par-1: 附則第七条の三第三項 → 厚生年金保険法 附則第七条の三第三項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 7-3, paragraph (3)), suppl-3291-115/art-7-3/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3291-115/art-7-3/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3291-115/art-7-3/par-3
- suppl-3291-115/art-16-3/par-1: 第十三条の四第三項 → 厚生年金保険法 附則第十三条の四第三項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 13-4, paragraph (3)), suppl-3291-115/art-13-4/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3291-115/art-13-4/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3291-115/art-13-4/par-3
- suppl-3291-115/art-16-3/par-2: 第五十二条第七項 → 厚生年金保険法 第五十二条第七項 (Article 52, paragraph (7)), art-52/par-7 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-52/par-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-52/par-7

## Cited by

1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction.

- 厚生年金保険法 附則第二十七条第五項（老齢厚生年金等の受給権者に係る老齢基礎年金の支給の繰上げの特例等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-4061-95/art-27/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-4061-95/art-27/par-5

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## 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-20261013T074650-012, 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
