# 厚生年金保険法 / Employees' Pension Insurance Act — 第十七条の八 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 17-8)

- 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: 第十七条の八 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 17-8)（第一号改定者の特例） — address `suppl-3291-115/art-17-8`
- 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-17-8
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3291-115/art-17-8
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### 第十七条の八（第一号改定者の特例） — Special Provisions on Persons Subject to a Class I Revision
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>suppl-3291-115/art-17-8 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3291-115/art-17-8 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3291-115/art-17-8</sup>

**第一項**  第七十八条の二第一項の規定の適用については、当分の間、同項中「又は被保険者であつた者」とあるのは、「若しくは被保険者であつた者又は附則第四条若しくは他の法令の規定により被保険者であつた期間とみなされた期間を有する者」とする。
<sup>suppl-3291-115/art-17-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3291-115/art-17-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3291-115/art-17-8/par-1</sup>
For the purpose of applying Article 78-2, paragraph (1), for the time being, the phrase "or a former insured" in Article 78-2, paragraph (1) is deemed to be replaced with "or a former insured, or a person who has a period deemed to be a period as an insured pursuant to the provisions of Article 4 of the Supplementary Provisions or another law or regulation".
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- suppl-3291-115/art-17-8/par-1: 第七十八条の二第一項 → 厚生年金保険法 第七十八条の二第一項 (Article 78-2, paragraph (1)), art-78-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-78-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-78-2/par-1
- suppl-3291-115/art-17-8/par-1: 附則第四条 → 厚生年金保険法 附則第四条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 4), suppl-3291-115/art-4 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3291-115/art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3291-115/art-4

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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-20261013T074650-013, 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
