# 厚生年金保険法 / Employees' Pension Insurance Act — 第四十二条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 42)

- 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: 第四十二条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 42)（老齢厚生年金の支給の繰下げに関する経過措置） — address `suppl-4161-104/art-42`
- Text in force since: 2026-10-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-4161-104/art-42
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-4161-104/art-42
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### 第四十二条（老齢厚生年金の支給の繰下げに関する経過措置） — Transitional Measures Concerning Deferring Payment of Employees' Old-Age Pensions
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>suppl-4161-104/art-42 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-4161-104/art-42 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-4161-104/art-42</sup>

**第一項**  第十二条の規定による改正後の厚生年金保険法第四十四条の三の規定は、平成十九年四月一日前において同法第四十二条の規定による老齢厚生年金の受給権を有する者については、適用しない。
<sup>suppl-4161-104/art-42/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-4161-104/art-42/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-4161-104/art-42/par-1</sup>
The provisions of Article 44-3 of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act as amended by Article 12 do not apply to a person who, before April 1, 2007, has the right to receive benefits from an employees' old-age pension under Article 42 of that Act.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- suppl-4161-104/art-42/par-1: 厚生年金保険法第四十四条の三 → 厚生年金保険法 第四十四条の三 (Article 44-3), art-44-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-44-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-44-3
- suppl-4161-104/art-42/par-1: 同法第四十二条 → 厚生年金保険法 第四十二条 (Article 42), art-42 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-42 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-42

## 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六号（施行期日） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-4161-104/art-1/par-1/item-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-4161-104/art-1/par-1/item-6

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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-20261013T074650-062, 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
