# 厚生年金保険法 / Employees' Pension Insurance Act — 附　則 (Supplementary Provisions) - 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: 附　則 (Supplementary Provisions) — address `suppl-4211-62` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-4211-62 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-4211-62 - 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. --- ## 附　則 平成二一年六月二六日法律第六二号 suppl-4211-62 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-4211-62 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-4211-62 ### 第一条（施行期日） — Effective Date caption: machine translation, not official suppl-4211-62/art-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-4211-62/art-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-4211-62/art-1 **第一項** この法律は、公布の日から施行する。 suppl-4211-62/art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-4211-62/art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-4211-62/art-1/par-1 This Act comes into effect on the date of promulgation. machine translation, not official ### 第二条（検討） — Review caption: machine translation, not official suppl-4211-62/art-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-4211-62/art-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-4211-62/art-2 **第一項** 政府は、国民年金法等の一部を改正する法律附則第三条第一項の規定を踏まえつつ、年金、医療及び介護の社会保障給付並びに少子化に対処するための施策について機能強化及び効率化を図ることの重要性にかんがみ、その一環として、公的年金制度について、基礎年金の最低保障機能の強化その他の事項に関する検討を進め、当該事項がそれぞれ制度として確立した場合に必要な費用を賄うための安定した財源を確保した上で、段階的にその具体化を図るものとする。 suppl-4211-62/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-4211-62/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-4211-62/art-2/par-1 Taking into consideration the provisions of Article 3, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the National Pension Act, etc., and in light of the importance of strengthening the functions and improving the efficiency of the social security benefits for pensions, medical care and long-term care, and of the measures for addressing the declining birthrate, the government is, as part of this, to proceed with a review of the public pension system with regard to strengthening the minimum guarantee function of the basic pension and other matters, and, after securing the stable financial resources to cover the expenses necessary in the case where each of those matters is established as a system, is to bring about its realization in stages. machine translation, not official --- ## 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-20261013T074650-066, translated 2026-10-13 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch employees-pension-insurance-act-20261013T074650-067, 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