# 厚生年金保険法 / Employees' Pension Insurance Act — 第二十一条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 21) - 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: 第二十一条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 21) — address `suppl-3551-82/art-21` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3551-82/art-21 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3551-82/art-21 - 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. --- ### 第二十一条 suppl-3551-82/art-21 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3551-82/art-21 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3551-82/art-21 **第一項** 昭和五十五年六月一日において現に厚生年金保険法による被保険者期間が一年以上であり、かつ、同法による老齢年金を受けるに必要な被保険者期間を満たしていない六十歳以上六十五歳未満の被保険者であつて、第一条の規定による改正後の同法附則第二十八条の三第一項第一号イ又はロのいずれかに該当しており、かつ、その者の標準報酬等級が第一級から第二十五級までの等級であるものに対しては、同項の規定に該当しない場合においても、これに該当するものとみなして、同項の特例老齢年金を支給する。ただし、その者が同法による通算老齢年金を受ける権利を有するときは、この限りでない。 suppl-3551-82/art-21/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3551-82/art-21/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3551-82/art-21/par-1 To an insured aged 60 or older and under 65 who, on June 1, 1980, actually has an insured period under the Employees' Pension Insurance Act of one year or more and has not satisfied the insured period necessary to receive an old-age pension under that Act, who falls under either (a) or (b) of Article 28-3, paragraph (1), item (i) of the Supplementary Provisions of that Act as amended by the provisions of Article 1, and whose standardized remuneration grade is any of Grade 1 through Grade 25, a special old-age pension under that paragraph is paid, deeming that person to fall under the provisions of that paragraph even where the person does not; provided, however, that this does not apply where the person has the right to receive an aggregated old-age pension under that Act. machine translation, not official ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 厚生年金保険法 附則第二十二条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3551-82/art-22/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3551-82/art-22/par-1 - 厚生年金保険法 附則第二十二条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3551-82/art-22/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3551-82/art-22/par-2 --- ## 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-20261013T074650-026, 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