# 厚生年金保険法 / Employees' Pension Insurance Act — 第四十条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 40) - 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: 第四十条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 40) — address `suppl-3601-34/art-40` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3601-34/art-40 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3601-34/art-40 - 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. --- ### 第四十条 suppl-3601-34/art-40 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3601-34/art-40 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3601-34/art-40 **第一項** 初診日が附則第一条第一号（第二条中厚生年金保険法第四十七条第二項の改正規定に係る部分に限る。）に規定する政令で定める日前にある傷病による障害に係る第二条の規定による改正後の厚生年金保険法第四十七条第二項の規定の適用に関し必要な経過措置は、政令で定める。 suppl-3601-34/art-40/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3601-34/art-40/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3601-34/art-40/par-1 Transitional measures necessary for the application of Article 47, paragraph (2) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act as amended by the provisions of Article 2, with regard to a disability resulting from an injury or illness for which the day of initial examination falls before the date specified by Cabinet Order prescribed in Article 1, item (i) of the Supplementary Provisions (limited to the part pertaining to the provisions amending Article 47, paragraph (2) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act in Article 2), are specified by Cabinet Order. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-3601-34/art-40/par-1: 附則第一条第一号 → 厚生年金保険法 附則第一条第一項第一号 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 1, paragraph (1), item (i)), suppl-3601-34/art-1/par-1/item-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3601-34/art-1/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3601-34/art-1/par-1/item-1 - suppl-3601-34/art-40/par-1: 厚生年金保険法第四十七条第二項 → 厚生年金保険法 第四十七条第二項 (Article 47, paragraph (2)), art-47/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-47/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-47/par-2 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 厚生年金保険法 附則第一条第一項第一号（施行期日） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3601-34/art-1/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3601-34/art-1/par-1/item-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-20261013T074650-029, 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