# 厚生年金保険法 / Employees' Pension Insurance Act — 第八条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 8)

- 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: 第八条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 8)（老齢厚生年金の支給の繰下げに関する経過措置） — address `suppl-5021-40/art-8`
- Text in force since: 2026-10-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-5021-40/art-8
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-5021-40/art-8
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### 第八条（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-5021-40/art-8 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-5021-40/art-8 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-5021-40/art-8</sup>

**第一項**  第四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、施行日の前日において、老齢厚生年金の受給権を取得した日から起算して五年を経過していない者について適用する。
<sup>suppl-5021-40/art-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-5021-40/art-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-5021-40/art-8/par-1</sup>
The provisions of Article 44-3 of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act as amended by the provisions of Article 4 apply to a person for whom, on the day preceding the Effective Date, five years have not elapsed from the day on which the person acquired the right to benefits from an employees' old-age pension.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- suppl-5021-40/art-8/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

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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-20261013T074650-098, translated 2026-10-13
- This site's parser, version 209 — 厚生年金保険法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-13
