# 厚生年金保険法 / Employees' Pension Insurance Act — 第二条の三 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 2-3)

- 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
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- Provision: 第二条の三 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 2-3)（適用事業所に関する経過措置等） — address `suppl-3291-115/art-2-3`
- Text in force since: 2026-10-01
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### 第二条の三（適用事業所に関する経過措置等） — Transitional Measures and Other Matters Concerning Applicable Places of Business
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<sup>suppl-3291-115/art-2-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3291-115/art-2-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3291-115/art-2-3</sup>

**第一項**  私立学校教職員共済法附則第十項の規定により学校法人とみなされる私立の幼稚園を設置する者、同項に規定するみなし幼保連携型認定こども園を設置する者又は特例設置幼保連携型認定こども園（就学前の子どもに関する教育、保育等の総合的な提供の推進に関する法律の一部を改正する法律（平成二十四年法律第六十六号）附則第四条第一項の規定により設置された幼保連携型認定こども園（就学前の子どもに関する教育、保育等の総合的な提供の推進に関する法律（平成十八年法律第七十七号）第二条第七項に規定する幼保連携型認定こども園をいう。）をいう。以下この項において同じ。）を設置する者（法人を除き、その設置する一の幼稚園、みなし幼保連携型認定こども園又は特例設置幼保連携型認定こども園において常時使用する従業員の数が五人未満であるものに限る。）は、この法律の適用については、当分の間、第六条第一項第二号に規定する法人とみなす。
<sup>suppl-3291-115/art-2-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3291-115/art-2-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3291-115/art-2-3/par-1</sup>
A person who establishes a private kindergarten that is deemed to be a school corporation pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (10) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Private School Personnel Mutual Aid Association Act, a person who establishes a deemed integrated center for early childhood education and care prescribed in that paragraph, or a person who establishes a specially established integrated center for early childhood education and care (meaning an integrated center for early childhood education and care (meaning an integrated center for early childhood education and care prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (7) of the Act on Advancement of Comprehensive Service Related to Education, Child Care, etc. of Preschool Children (Act No. 77 of 2006)) established pursuant to the provisions of Article 4, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the Act on Advancement of Comprehensive Service Related to Education, Child Care, etc. of Preschool Children (Act No. 66 of 2012); the same applies hereinafter in this paragraph) (excluding a corporation, and limited to a person for whom the number of persons regularly employed at the one kindergarten, deemed integrated center for early childhood education and care, or specially established integrated center for early childhood education and care that the person establishes is less than five) is deemed, for the purpose of application of this Act, to be a corporation prescribed in Article 6, paragraph (1), item (ii), for the time being.
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**第二項**  適用事業所に使用されない七十歳未満の者であつて、第二条の五第一項第二号又は第三号に規定する組合員であるものは、この法律の適用については、当分の間、第九条に規定する適用事業所に使用される七十歳未満の者とみなす。
<sup>suppl-3291-115/art-2-3/par-2 · 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</sup>
A person under 70 years of age who is not employed at an applicable place of business and who is a member prescribed in Article 2-5, paragraph (1), item (ii) or item (iii) is deemed, for the purpose of application of this Act, to be a person under 70 years of age who is employed at an applicable place of business prescribed in Article 9, for the time being.
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**第三項**  前項の規定により適用事業所に使用される七十歳未満の者とみなされた者を使用する事業所の事業主は、この法律の適用については、第六条に規定する適用事業所の事業主とみなす。
<sup>suppl-3291-115/art-2-3/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3291-115/art-2-3/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3291-115/art-2-3/par-3</sup>
An employer of a place of business that employs a person deemed under the preceding paragraph to be a person under 70 years of age who is employed at an applicable place of business is deemed, for the purpose of application of this Act, to be an employer with an applicable place of business prescribed in Article 6.
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## Cites
- suppl-3291-115/art-2-3/par-1: 就学前の子どもに関する教育、保育等の総合的な提供の推進に関する法律（平成十八年法律第七十七号）第二条第七項 → e-Gov law 418AC0000000077, 第二条第七項 (Article 2, paragraph (7)), art-2/par-7 — not held in this collection
- suppl-3291-115/art-2-3/par-1: この項 → 厚生年金保険法 附則第二条の三第一項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 2-3, paragraph (1)), suppl-3291-115/art-2-3/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3291-115/art-2-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3291-115/art-2-3/par-1
- suppl-3291-115/art-2-3/par-1: 第六条第一項第二号 → 厚生年金保険法 第六条第一項第二号 (Article 6, paragraph (1), item (ii)), art-6/par-1/item-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-6/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-6/par-1/item-2
- suppl-3291-115/art-2-3/par-2: 第二条の五第一項第二号 → 厚生年金保険法 第二条の五第一項第二号 (Article 2-5, paragraph (1), item (ii)), art-2-5/par-1/item-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-2-5/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-2-5/par-1/item-2
- suppl-3291-115/art-2-3/par-2: 第三号 → 厚生年金保険法 第二条の五第一項第三号 (Article 2-5, paragraph (1), item (iii)), art-2-5/par-1/item-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-2-5/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-2-5/par-1/item-3
- suppl-3291-115/art-2-3/par-2: 第九条 → 厚生年金保険法 第九条 (Article 9), art-9 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-9 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-9
- suppl-3291-115/art-2-3/par-3: 前項 → 厚生年金保険法 附則第二条の三第二項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 2-3, paragraph (2)), suppl-3291-115/art-2-3/par-2 — 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
- suppl-3291-115/art-2-3/par-3: 第六条 → 厚生年金保険法 第六条 (Article 6), art-6 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-6

## Cited by

3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction.

- 厚生年金保険法 附則第二条の三第一項（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-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3291-115/art-2-3/par-1
- 厚生年金保険法 附則第二条の三第三項（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-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3291-115/art-2-3/par-3
- 厚生年金保険法 附則第八十六条第一項（調整規定） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-4241-63/art-86/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-4241-63/art-86/par-1

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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-20261013T074650-002, 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
