# 厚生年金保険法 / Employees' Pension Insurance Act — 第二十二条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 22) - 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: 第二十二条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 22) — address `suppl-3551-82/art-22` - 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-22 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3551-82/art-22 - 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. --- ### 第二十二条 suppl-3551-82/art-22 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3551-82/art-22 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3551-82/art-22 **第一項** 昭和五十五年六月一日から施行日の前日までの間において第一条の規定による改正前の厚生年金保険法第四十二条第二項若しくは第三項、第四十六条の三第二項、附則第十二条第三項又は附則第二十八条の三第二項の請求をした者が、その者に支給されることとなる第一条の規定による改正後の同法による老齢年金、通算老齢年金又は特例老齢年金の額が当該請求をした日にその者が当該老齢年金、通算老齢年金又は特例老齢年金を受ける権利を取得したものとみなして計算した当該老齢年金、通算老齢年金又は特例老齢年金の額に満たない場合において、施行日から昭和五十五年十二月三十一日までの間に、社会保険庁長官に申し出たときは、同年六月一日から施行日の前日までの間のその者に支給する第一条の規定による改正後の同法による老齢年金、通算老齢年金又は特例老齢年金を受ける権利の取得又は消滅については、第一条の規定による改正後の同法第四十二条第一項、第四十五条、第四十六条の三、第四十六条の六、附則第十二条第三項並びに附則第二十八条の三第一項及び第五項の規定並びに附則第六条、附則第十三条、附則第十九条及び前条の規定にかかわらず、なお従前の例による。 suppl-3551-82/art-22/par-1 · 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 Where a person who, during the period from June 1, 1980 through the day before the Effective Date, made a request under Article 42, paragraph (2) or (3), Article 46-3, paragraph (2), Article 12, paragraph (3) of the Supplementary Provisions or Article 28-3, paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act prior to its amendment by the provisions of Article 1 finds that the amount of the old-age pension, aggregated old-age pension or special old-age pension under that Act as amended by the provisions of Article 1 that is to be paid to that person is less than the amount of that old-age pension, aggregated old-age pension or special old-age pension calculated on the assumption that the person acquired the right to receive it on the day of that request, and applies to the Director-General of the Social Insurance Agency during the period from the Effective Date through December 31, 1980, the provisions then in force continue to govern the acquisition or extinguishment of the right to receive the old-age pension, aggregated old-age pension or special old-age pension under that Act as amended by the provisions of Article 1 that is to be paid to that person for the period from June 1 of that year through the day before the Effective Date, notwithstanding the provisions of Article 42, paragraph (1), Article 45, Article 46-3, Article 46-6, Article 12, paragraph (3) of the Supplementary Provisions, and Article 28-3, paragraphs (1) and (5) of the Supplementary Provisions of that Act as amended by the provisions of Article 1, and the provisions of Article 6, Article 13, Article 19 and the preceding Article of the Supplementary Provisions. machine translation, not official **第二項** 附則第六条、附則第十三条、附則第十九条及び前条の規定は、前項の申出をした者であつて、施行日の前日において現に第一条の規定による改正前の厚生年金保険法による老齢年金、通算老齢年金又は特例老齢年金を受ける権利を有していないものについて準用する。この場合において、附則第六条、附則第十三条、附則第十九条及び前条中「昭和五十五年六月一日」とあるのは、「施行日」と読み替えるものとする。 suppl-3551-82/art-22/par-2 · 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 The provisions of Article 6, Article 13, Article 19 and the preceding Article of the Supplementary Provisions apply mutatis mutandis to a person who made the application under the preceding paragraph and who, on the day before the Effective Date, does not actually have the right to receive an old-age pension, aggregated old-age pension or special old-age pension under the Employees' Pension Insurance Act prior to its amendment by the provisions of Article 1. In this case, the phrase "June 1, 1980" in Articles 6, 13 and 19 of the Supplementary Provisions and the preceding Article is deemed to be replaced with "the Effective Date". machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-3551-82/art-22/par-1: 附則第六条 → 厚生年金保険法 附則第六条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 6), suppl-3551-82/art-6 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3551-82/art-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3551-82/art-6 - suppl-3551-82/art-22/par-1: 附則第十三条 → 厚生年金保険法 附則第十三条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 13), suppl-3551-82/art-13 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3551-82/art-13 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3551-82/art-13 - suppl-3551-82/art-22/par-1: 附則第十九条 → 厚生年金保険法 附則第十九条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 19), suppl-3551-82/art-19 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3551-82/art-19 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3551-82/art-19 - suppl-3551-82/art-22/par-1: 前条 → 厚生年金保険法 附則第二十一条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 21), 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 - suppl-3551-82/art-22/par-2: 附則第六条 → 厚生年金保険法 附則第六条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 6), suppl-3551-82/art-6 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3551-82/art-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3551-82/art-6 - suppl-3551-82/art-22/par-2: 附則第十三条 → 厚生年金保険法 附則第十三条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 13), suppl-3551-82/art-13 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3551-82/art-13 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3551-82/art-13 - suppl-3551-82/art-22/par-2: 附則第十九条 → 厚生年金保険法 附則第十九条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 19), suppl-3551-82/art-19 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3551-82/art-19 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3551-82/art-19 - suppl-3551-82/art-22/par-2: 前条 → 厚生年金保険法 附則第二十一条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 21), 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 - suppl-3551-82/art-22/par-2: 前項 → 厚生年金保険法 附則第二十二条第一項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 22, paragraph (1)), suppl-3551-82/art-22/par-1 — 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 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 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