# 国民年金法施行令 / Order for Enforcement of the National Pension Act — 第十一条の十二の二 (Article 11-12-2)

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- Law: 国民年金法施行令 (Order for Enforcement of the National Pension Act), 昭和三十四年政令第百八十四号
- English title "Order for Enforcement of the National Pension Act": claude-opus-5-5
- Kind: CabinetOrder — 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: 第十一条の十二の二 (Article 11-12-2)（地方厚生局長等への権限の委任） — address `art-11-12-2`
- Text in force since: 2026-10-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/national-pension-act-enforcement-order/art-11-12-2
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/334CO0000000184/art-11-12-2
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### 第十一条の十二の二（地方厚生局長等への権限の委任） — Delegation of Authority to the Director-General of the Regional Bureau of Health and Welfare, etc.
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>art-11-12-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/national-pension-act-enforcement-order/art-11-12-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334CO0000000184/art-11-12-2</sup>

**第一項**  法第十四条の四に規定する厚生労働大臣の権限は、法第十四条の二第一項（同条第二項において準用する場合を含む。次項において同じ。）の規定による請求を受理した日本年金機構の事務所（年金事務所（日本年金機構法（平成十九年法律第百九号）第二十九条に規定する年金事務所をいう。以下同じ。）を含む。次項において同じ。）の所在地を管轄する地方厚生局長に委任する。ただし、厚生労働大臣が自らその権限を行うことを妨げない。
<sup>art-11-12-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/national-pension-act-enforcement-order/art-11-12-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334CO0000000184/art-11-12-2/par-1</sup>
The authority of the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare prescribed in Article 14-4 of the Act is delegated to the Director-General of the Regional Bureau of Health and Welfare who has jurisdiction over the location of the office of the Japan Pension Service (including a pension office (meaning a pension office prescribed in Article 29 of the Japan Pension Organization Act (Act No. 109 of 2007); the same applies hereinafter); the same applies in the following paragraph) that accepted the request under Article 14-2, paragraph (1) of the Act (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to paragraph (2) of that Article; the same applies in the following paragraph); provided, however, that this does not preclude the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare from exercising that authority personally.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

**第二項**  前項の規定により地方厚生局長に委任された権限は、法第十四条の二第一項の規定による請求を受理した日本年金機構の事務所の所在地を管轄する地方厚生支局長に委任する。ただし、地方厚生局長が自らその権限を行うことを妨げない。
<sup>art-11-12-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/national-pension-act-enforcement-order/art-11-12-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334CO0000000184/art-11-12-2/par-2</sup>
The authority delegated to the Director-General of the Regional Bureau of Health and Welfare pursuant to the preceding paragraph is delegated to the Director-General of the Regional Branch Bureau of Health and Welfare who has jurisdiction over the location of the office of the Japan Pension Service that accepted the request under Article 14-2, paragraph (1) of the Act; provided, however, that this does not preclude the Director-General of the Regional Bureau of Health and Welfare from exercising that authority personally.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- art-11-12-2/par-1: 法第十四条の四 → 国民年金法 第十四条の四 (Article 14-4), art-14-4 — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-pension-act/art-14-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334AC0000000141/art-14-4
- art-11-12-2/par-1: 法第十四条の二第一項 → 国民年金法 第十四条の二第一項 (Article 14-2, paragraph (1)), art-14-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-pension-act/art-14-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334AC0000000141/art-14-2/par-1
- art-11-12-2/par-1: 同条第二項 → 国民年金法 第十四条の二第二項 (Article 14-2, paragraph (2)), art-14-2/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-pension-act/art-14-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334AC0000000141/art-14-2/par-2
- art-11-12-2/par-1: 次項 → 国民年金法施行令 第十一条の十二の二第二項 (Article 11-12-2, paragraph (2)), art-11-12-2/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-pension-act-enforcement-order/art-11-12-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334CO0000000184/art-11-12-2/par-2
- art-11-12-2/par-1: 日本年金機構法（平成十九年法律第百九号）第二十九条 → e-Gov law 419AC0000000109, 第二十九条 (Article 29), art-29 — not held in this collection
- art-11-12-2/par-2: 前項 → 国民年金法施行令 第十一条の十二の二第一項 (Article 11-12-2, paragraph (1)), art-11-12-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-pension-act-enforcement-order/art-11-12-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334CO0000000184/art-11-12-2/par-1
- art-11-12-2/par-2: 法第十四条の二第一項 → 国民年金法 第十四条の二第一項 (Article 14-2, paragraph (1)), art-14-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-pension-act/art-14-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334AC0000000141/art-14-2/par-1

## Cited by

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

- 国民年金法施行令 第十一条の十二の二第一項（地方厚生局長等への権限の委任） — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-pension-act-enforcement-order/art-11-12-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334CO0000000184/art-11-12-2/par-1
- 国民年金法施行令 第十一条の十二の二第二項（地方厚生局長等への権限の委任） — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-pension-act-enforcement-order/art-11-12-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334CO0000000184/art-11-12-2/par-2

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## Sources

- claude-opus-5-5 — English title of a law in this collection, written for this site, written 2026-11-05
- e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 国民年金法施行令 — the text in force from 2026-10-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/334CO0000000184/20261001_508CO0000000226), retrieved 2026-11-04
- claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch national-pension-act-enforcement-order-20261104T155001-012, translated 2026-11-05
- This site's parser, version 224 — 国民年金法施行令 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-04
