# 国民年金法施行令 / Order for Enforcement of the National Pension Act — 第十二条の四 (Article 12-4) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/national-pension-act-enforcement-order/art-12-4. Every law, and how to address a provision: https://japanlaw.org/llms.txt. The same laws as MCP tools (no sign-in): https://japanlaw.org/mcp. - 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: 第十二条の四 (Article 12-4)（法附則第九条の二の二第四項の政令で定める額） — address `art-12-4` - 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-12-4 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/334CO0000000184/art-12-4 - 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. --- ### 第十二条の四（法附則第九条の二の二第四項の政令で定める額） — Amount Specified by Cabinet Order under Article 9-2-2, Paragraph (4) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act caption: machine translation, not official art-12-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/national-pension-act-enforcement-order/art-12-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334CO0000000184/art-12-4 **第一項** 法附則第九条の二の二第四項に規定する政令で定める額は、法第二十七条の規定によつて計算した額に前条の規定により算定した率を乗じて得た額に減額率（千分の四に請求日の属する月から六十五歳に達する日の属する月の前月までの月数を乗じて得た率をいう。）を乗じて得た額とする。 art-12-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/national-pension-act-enforcement-order/art-12-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334CO0000000184/art-12-4/par-1 The amount specified by Cabinet Order prescribed in Article 9-2-2, paragraph (4) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act is the amount obtained by multiplying the amount calculated under Article 27 of the Act by the rate calculated pursuant to the preceding Article, and then multiplying the result by the reduction rate (meaning the rate obtained by multiplying 4/1000 by the number of months from the month that contains the date of claim to the month preceding the month that contains the day on which the person reaches 65 years of age). machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-12-4: 法附則第九条の二の二第四項 → 国民年金法 附則第九条の二の二第四項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 9-2-2, paragraph (4)), suppl-3341-141/art-9-2-2/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-pension-act/suppl-3341-141/art-9-2-2/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334AC0000000141/suppl-3341-141/art-9-2-2/par-4 - art-12-4/par-1: 法附則第九条の二の二第四項 → 国民年金法 附則第九条の二の二第四項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 9-2-2, paragraph (4)), suppl-3341-141/art-9-2-2/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-pension-act/suppl-3341-141/art-9-2-2/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334AC0000000141/suppl-3341-141/art-9-2-2/par-4 - art-12-4/par-1: 法第二十七条 → 国民年金法 第二十七条 (Article 27), art-27 — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-pension-act/art-27 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334AC0000000141/art-27 - art-12-4/par-1: 前条 → 国民年金法施行令 第十二条の三 (Article 12-3), art-12-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-pension-act-enforcement-order/art-12-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334CO0000000184/art-12-3 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 国民年金法施行令 第十二条の三第一項（法附則第九条の二の二第四項の政令で定める率） — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-pension-act-enforcement-order/art-12-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334CO0000000184/art-12-3/par-1 - 国民年金法施行令 附則第二条第二項（老齢基礎年金の支給の繰下げの際に加算する額等に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-pension-act-enforcement-order/suppl-5032-229/art-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334CO0000000184/suppl-5032-229/art-2/par-2 --- ## 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-20261104T155001-013, 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