# 厚生年金保険法 / Employees' Pension Insurance Act — 第十八条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 18) - 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: 第十八条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 18)（二以上の種別の被保険者であつた期間を有する者に係る老齢厚生年金の支給の繰上げの特例） — address `suppl-3291-115/art-18` - 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-18 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3291-115/art-18 - 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. --- ### 第十八条（二以上の種別の被保険者であつた期間を有する者に係る老齢厚生年金の支給の繰上げの特例） — Special Provisions on Early Payment of Employees' Old-Age Pension for a Person Who Has Spent Time as an Insured in Two or More Categories caption: machine translation, not official suppl-3291-115/art-18 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3291-115/art-18 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3291-115/art-18 **第一項** 二以上の種別の被保険者であつた期間を有する者について、附則第七条の三第一項の規定を適用する場合においては、当該二以上の被保険者の種別に係る被保険者であつた期間のうち一の期間に基づく老齢厚生年金についての同項の請求は、他の期間に基づく老齢厚生年金についての当該請求と同時に行わなければならない。 suppl-3291-115/art-18/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3291-115/art-18/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3291-115/art-18/par-1 In the case of applying Article 7-3, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions to a person who has spent time as an insured in two or more categories, the request under that paragraph for the employees' old-age pension based on the time in one category, among the periods during which the person was an insured under the two or more insured categories, must be made at the same time as that request for the employees' old-age pension based on the time in another category. machine translation, not official **第二項** 前項の場合においては、各号の厚生年金被保険者期間ごとに附則第七条の三の規定を適用する。この場合において、同条の規定の適用に関し必要な読替えその他必要な事項は、政令で定める。 suppl-3291-115/art-18/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3291-115/art-18/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3291-115/art-18/par-2 In the case of the preceding paragraph, the provisions of Article 7-3 of the Supplementary Provisions apply to each category of EPI insured period. In such a case, the replacement of terms necessary for the application of the provisions of that Article and other necessary particulars are specified by Cabinet Order. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-3291-115/art-18/par-1: 附則第七条の三第一項 → 厚生年金保険法 附則第七条の三第一項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 7-3, paragraph (1)), suppl-3291-115/art-7-3/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3291-115/art-7-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3291-115/art-7-3/par-1 - suppl-3291-115/art-18/par-2: 前項 → 厚生年金保険法 附則第十八条第一項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 18, paragraph (1)), suppl-3291-115/art-18/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3291-115/art-18/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3291-115/art-18/par-1 - suppl-3291-115/art-18/par-2: 附則第七条の三 → 厚生年金保険法 附則第七条の三 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 7-3), suppl-3291-115/art-7-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3291-115/art-7-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3291-115/art-7-3 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 厚生年金保険法 附則第十八条第二項（二以上の種別の被保険者であつた期間を有する者に係る老齢厚生年金の支給の繰上げの特例） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3291-115/art-18/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3291-115/art-18/par-2 - 厚生年金保険法 附則第十九条第一項（二以上の種別の被保険者であつた期間を有する者に係る老齢厚生年金の基本手当等との調整の特例） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3291-115/art-19/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3291-115/art-19/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 - 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