# 厚生年金保険法 / Employees' Pension Insurance Act — 第三条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 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: 第三条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 3) — address `suppl-3441-78/art-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-3441-78/art-3
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3441-78/art-3
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### 第三条
<sup>suppl-3441-78/art-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3441-78/art-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3441-78/art-3</sup>

**第一項**  昭和四十四年十一月一日前に厚生年金保険の被保険者であつた者に関し、同日以後に保険給付を受ける権利を有するに至つた者に支給する保険給付につき平均標準報酬月額を計算する場合において、その計算の基礎となる標準報酬月額に一万円に満たないものがあるときは、これを一万円とする。
<sup>suppl-3441-78/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3441-78/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3441-78/art-3/par-1</sup>
In the case where the average standardized monthly amount of remuneration is calculated, with respect to a person who was an insured covered by employees' pension insurance before November 1, 1969, for the insurance benefits paid to a person who has come to have the right to receive insurance benefits on or after that day, if any of the standardized monthly amounts of remuneration forming the basis of that calculation is less than 10,000 yen, that amount is to be 10,000 yen.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

## Cited by

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

- 厚生年金保険法 附則第一条第二項第二号（施行期日等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3441-78/art-1/par-2/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3441-78/art-1/par-2/item-2
- 厚生年金保険法 附則第六条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3441-78/art-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3441-78/art-6/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-20261013T074650-021, 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
