# 厚生年金保険法 / Employees' Pension Insurance Act — 第二条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 2) - 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: 第二条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 2)（検討等） — address `suppl-4241-62/art-2` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-4241-62/art-2 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-4241-62/art-2 - 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. --- ### 第二条（検討等） — Review, Etc. caption: machine translation, not official suppl-4241-62/art-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-4241-62/art-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-4241-62/art-2 **第一項** 政府は、この法律の施行後三年を目途として、この法律の施行の状況等を勘案し、基礎年金の最低保障機能の強化その他の事項について総合的に検討を加え、必要があると認めるときは、その結果に基づいて所要の措置を講ずるものとする。 suppl-4241-62/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-4241-62/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-4241-62/art-2/par-1 The government is to, with a target of three years after this Act comes into effect, taking into consideration the state of enforcement of this Act and other circumstances, comprehensively review the strengthening of the minimum guarantee function of the basic pension and other matters, and, when it finds it necessary, is to take the necessary measures based on the results of that review. machine translation, not official **第二項** 政府は、短時間労働者に対する厚生年金保険及び健康保険の適用範囲について、平成三十一年九月三十日までに検討を加え、その結果に基づき、必要な措置を講ずる。 suppl-4241-62/art-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-4241-62/art-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-4241-62/art-2/par-2 The government is to conduct a review of the scope of application of employees' pension insurance and health insurance to part-time workers by September 30, 2019, and take required measures based on the results. machine translation, not official ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 厚生年金保険法 附則第一条第一項第四号（施行期日） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-4241-62/art-1/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-4241-62/art-1/par-1/item-4 - 厚生年金保険法 附則第一条第一項第五号（施行期日） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-4241-62/art-1/par-1/item-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-4241-62/art-1/par-1/item-5 --- ## 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-20261013T074650-068, 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