# 厚生年金保険法 / Employees' Pension Insurance Act — 第四十一条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 41)

- 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: 第四十一条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 41)（厚生年金保険の適用事業所の経過措置） — address `suppl-3601-34/art-41`
- Text in force since: 2026-10-01
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### 第四十一条（厚生年金保険の適用事業所の経過措置） — Transitional Measures for Places of Business Applicable to Employees' Pension Insurance
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<sup>suppl-3601-34/art-41 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3601-34/art-41 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3601-34/art-41</sup>

**第一項**  新厚生年金保険法第六条第一項第二号に掲げる事業所又は事務所であつて、常時五人以上の従業員を使用するもの以外のものについては、同項（同条第三項及び同法第七条において適用する場合を含む。）の規定は、平成元年三月三十一日までの間は、政令で定めるところにより、段階的に適用するものとする。
<sup>suppl-3601-34/art-41/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3601-34/art-41/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3601-34/art-41/par-1</sup>
With regard to a place of business or office listed in Article 6, paragraph (1), item (ii) of the new Employees' Pension Insurance Act other than one that regularly employs five or more employees, the provisions of that paragraph (including as applied pursuant to paragraph (3) of that Article and Article 7 of that Act) are to be applied in stages, until March 31, 1989, as specified by Cabinet Order.
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## Cites
- suppl-3601-34/art-41/par-1: 新厚生年金保険法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-3601-34/art-41/par-1: 同項 → 厚生年金保険法 第六条第一項 (Article 6, paragraph (1)), art-6/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-6/par-1
- suppl-3601-34/art-41/par-1: 同条第三項 → 厚生年金保険法 第六条第三項 (Article 6, paragraph (3)), art-6/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-6/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-6/par-3
- suppl-3601-34/art-41/par-1: 同法第七条 → 厚生年金保険法 第七条 (Article 7), art-7 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-7

## Cited by

1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction.

- 厚生年金保険法 附則第五条第一項（用語の定義） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3601-34/art-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3601-34/art-5/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-20261013T074650-029, 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
