# 厚生年金保険法 / Employees' Pension Insurance Act — 第七十二条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 72)

- 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: 第七十二条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 72)（存続連合会の解散に伴う責任準備金相当額の徴収） — address `suppl-4251-63/art-72`
- Text in force since: 2026-10-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-4251-63/art-72
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-4251-63/art-72
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### 第七十二条（存続連合会の解散に伴う責任準備金相当額の徴収） — Collection of the Liability Reserve Equivalent upon Dissolution of the surviving Pension Fund Association
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>suppl-4251-63/art-72 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-4251-63/art-72 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-4251-63/art-72</sup>

**第一項**  附則第八条の規定は、存続連合会が解散した場合について準用する。
<sup>suppl-4251-63/art-72/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-4251-63/art-72/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-4251-63/art-72/par-1</sup>
The provisions of Article 8 of the Supplementary Provisions apply mutatis mutandis to the case where the surviving Pension Fund Association is dissolved.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- suppl-4251-63/art-72/par-1: 附則第八条 → 厚生年金保険法 附則第八条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 8), suppl-4251-63/art-8 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-4251-63/art-8 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-4251-63/art-8

## Cited by

4 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction.

- 厚生年金保険法 附則第三十八条第三項（存続連合会に係る改正前厚生年金保険法の効力等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-4251-63/art-38/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-4251-63/art-38/par-3
- 厚生年金保険法 附則第七十三条第一項（責任準備金相当額の一部の物納） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-4251-63/art-73/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-4251-63/art-73/par-1
- 厚生年金保険法 附則第八十二条第一項第四号（徴収金の督促及び滞納処分等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-4251-63/art-82/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-4251-63/art-82/par-1/item-4
- 厚生年金保険法 附則第八十八条第五項（罰則） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-4251-63/art-88/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-4251-63/art-88/par-5

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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-20261013T074650-090, 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
