# 厚生年金保険法 / Employees' Pension Insurance Act — 第三条の二 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 3-2) - 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: 第三条の二 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 3-2)（法制上の措置等） — address `suppl-5071-74/art-3-2` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-5071-74/art-3-2 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-5071-74/art-3-2 - 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. --- ### 第三条の二（法制上の措置等） — Legislative Measures, etc. caption: machine translation, not official suppl-5071-74/art-3-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-5071-74/art-3-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-5071-74/art-3-2 **第一項** 政府は、今後の社会経済情勢の変化を見極め、この法律の公布の日以後初めて作成される国民年金法第四条の三第一項に規定する財政の現況及び見通し及び厚生年金保険法第二条の四第一項に規定する財政の現況及び見通しにおいて、国民年金法第十六条の二第一項に規定する調整期間の見通しと厚生年金保険法第三十四条第一項に規定する調整期間の見通しとの間に著しい差異があり、公的年金制度の所得再分配機能の低下により国民年金法による老齢基礎年金（以下この条において単に「老齢基礎年金」という。）の給付水準の低下が見込まれる場合には、老齢基礎年金又は厚生年金保険法による老齢厚生年金（次項において単に「老齢厚生年金」という。）の受給権者の将来における老齢基礎年金の給付水準の向上を図るため、国民年金法第十六条の二第一項の調整と厚生年金保険法第三十四条第一項の調整を同時に終了させるために必要な法制上の措置を講ずるものとする。この場合において、給付と負担の均衡がとれた持続可能な公的年金制度の確立について検討を行うものとする。 suppl-5071-74/art-3-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-5071-74/art-3-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-5071-74/art-3-2/par-1 The government is to, ascertaining future changes in social and economic conditions, where, in the current budget status and projections report prescribed in Article 4-3, paragraph (1) of the National Pension Act and the current budget status and projections report prescribed in Article 2-4, paragraph (1) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act that are prepared for the first time on or after the date of promulgation of this Act, there is a significant difference between the projection of the term under adjustment prescribed in Article 16-2, paragraph (1) of the National Pension Act and the projection of the term under adjustment prescribed in Article 34, paragraph (1) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act, and a decline in the benefit level of the old-age basic pension under the National Pension Act (hereinafter in this Article referred to simply as the "old-age basic pension") is expected due to a decline in the income redistribution function of the public pension system, take the legislative measures necessary to simultaneously end the adjustment under Article 16-2, paragraph (1) of the National Pension Act and the adjustment under Article 34, paragraph (1) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act, in order to improve the future benefit level of the old-age basic pension for a beneficiary of an old-age basic pension or an employees' old-age pension under the Employees' Pension Insurance Act (referred to simply as an "employees' old-age pension" in the following paragraph). In this case, the government is to examine the establishment of a sustainable public pension system in which benefits and burdens are balanced. machine translation, not official **第二項** 政府は、前項の法制上の措置を講ずる場合において、老齢基礎年金の額及び老齢厚生年金の額の合計額が、当該措置を講じなかったとしたならば支給されることとなる老齢基礎年金の額及び老齢厚生年金の額の合計額を下回るときは、その影響を緩和するために必要な法制上の措置その他の措置を講ずるものとする。 suppl-5071-74/art-3-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-5071-74/art-3-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-5071-74/art-3-2/par-2 The government is to, when taking the legislative measures under the preceding paragraph, if the total of the amount of the old-age basic pension and the amount of the employees' old-age pension is lower than the total of the amount of the old-age basic pension and the amount of the employees' old-age pension that would be paid if those measures had not been taken, take the legislative and other measures necessary to mitigate that effect. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-5071-74/art-3-2/par-1: 国民年金法第四条の三第一項 → 国民年金法 第四条の三第一項 (Article 4-3, paragraph (1)), art-4-3/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-pension-act/art-4-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334AC0000000141/art-4-3/par-1 - suppl-5071-74/art-3-2/par-1: 厚生年金保険法第二条の四第一項 → 厚生年金保険法 第二条の四第一項 (Article 2-4, paragraph (1)), art-2-4/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-2-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-2-4/par-1 - suppl-5071-74/art-3-2/par-1: 国民年金法第十六条の二第一項 → 国民年金法 第十六条の二第一項 (Article 16-2, paragraph (1)), art-16-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-pension-act/art-16-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334AC0000000141/art-16-2/par-1 - suppl-5071-74/art-3-2/par-1: 厚生年金保険法第三十四条第一項 → 厚生年金保険法 第三十四条第一項 (Article 34, paragraph (1)), art-34/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-34/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-34/par-1 - suppl-5071-74/art-3-2/par-1: この条 → 厚生年金保険法 附則第三条の二 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 3-2), suppl-5071-74/art-3-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-5071-74/art-3-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-5071-74/art-3-2 - suppl-5071-74/art-3-2/par-1: 次項 → 厚生年金保険法 附則第三条の二第二項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 3-2, paragraph (2)), suppl-5071-74/art-3-2/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-5071-74/art-3-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-5071-74/art-3-2/par-2 - suppl-5071-74/art-3-2/par-2: 前項 → 厚生年金保険法 附則第三条の二第一項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 3-2, paragraph (1)), suppl-5071-74/art-3-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-5071-74/art-3-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-5071-74/art-3-2/par-1 ## Cited by 3 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一号（施行期日等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-5071-74/art-1/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-5071-74/art-1/par-1/item-1 - 厚生年金保険法 附則第三条の二第一項（法制上の措置等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-5071-74/art-3-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-5071-74/art-3-2/par-1 - 厚生年金保険法 附則第三条の二第二項（法制上の措置等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-5071-74/art-3-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-5071-74/art-3-2/par-2 --- ## 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-20261013T074650-101, translated 2026-10-13 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch employees-pension-insurance-act-20261013T083844-007, translated 2026-10-19 - This site's parser, version 211 — 厚生年金保険法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-13