# 国民年金法施行令 / Order for Enforcement of the National Pension Act — 第十六条 (Article 16) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/national-pension-act-enforcement-order/art-16. 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: 第十六条 (Article 16)（資金の交付） — address `art-16` - 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-16 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/334CO0000000184/art-16 - 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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第十六条（資金の交付） — Payment of Funds caption: machine translation, not official art-16 · https://japanlaw.org/en/national-pension-act-enforcement-order/art-16 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334CO0000000184/art-16 **第一項** 政府は、前条第一項の規定により共済組合等が共済払いの基礎年金の支払に関する事務を行う場合には、その支払に必要な資金を当該共済組合等に交付するものとする。 art-16/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/national-pension-act-enforcement-order/art-16/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334CO0000000184/art-16/par-1 In the case where a mutual aid association, etc. performs the administrative work relating to the payment of basic pensions paid by mutual aid associations pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) of the preceding Article, the government is to pay the funds necessary for that payment to that mutual aid association, etc. machine translation, not official **第二項** 政府は、前項の規定による資金の交付をするときは、必要な資金を日本銀行に交付して、同項の規定による資金の交付をさせることができる。 art-16/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/national-pension-act-enforcement-order/art-16/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334CO0000000184/art-16/par-2 When paying funds under the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the government may pay the necessary funds to the Bank of Japan and have it pay the funds under the provisions of that paragraph. machine translation, not official **第三項** 前項に定めるもののほか、第一項の規定による資金の交付に関し必要な手続及び前条第一項の規定により共済払いの基礎年金の支払に関する事務を行う共済組合等が取り扱う第一項の規定により交付された資金の受払に関する手続は、財務省令で定める。 art-16/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/national-pension-act-enforcement-order/art-16/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334CO0000000184/art-16/par-3 In addition to what is provided for in the preceding paragraph, the procedures necessary for the payment of funds under the provisions of paragraph (1) and the procedures for receipt and disbursement of the funds paid under the provisions of paragraph (1), which are handled by the mutual aid association, etc. that performs the administrative work relating to the payment of basic pensions paid by mutual aid associations pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) of the preceding Article, are specified by Ministry of Finance Order. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-16/par-1: 前条第一項 → 国民年金法施行令 第十五条第一項 (Article 15, paragraph (1)), art-15/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-pension-act-enforcement-order/art-15/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334CO0000000184/art-15/par-1 - art-16/par-2: 前項 → 国民年金法施行令 第十六条第一項 (Article 16, paragraph (1)), art-16/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-pension-act-enforcement-order/art-16/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334CO0000000184/art-16/par-1 - art-16/par-3: 前項 → 国民年金法施行令 第十六条第二項 (Article 16, paragraph (2)), art-16/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-pension-act-enforcement-order/art-16/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334CO0000000184/art-16/par-2 - art-16/par-3: 第一項 → 国民年金法施行令 第十六条第一項 (Article 16, paragraph (1)), art-16/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-pension-act-enforcement-order/art-16/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334CO0000000184/art-16/par-1 - art-16/par-3: 前条第一項 → 国民年金法施行令 第十五条第一項 (Article 15, paragraph (1)), art-15/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-pension-act-enforcement-order/art-15/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334CO0000000184/art-15/par-1 ## Cited by 4 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 国民年金法施行令 第十六条第二項（資金の交付） — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-pension-act-enforcement-order/art-16/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334CO0000000184/art-16/par-2 - 国民年金法施行令 第十六条第三項（資金の交付） — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-pension-act-enforcement-order/art-16/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334CO0000000184/art-16/par-3 - 国民年金法施行令 第十七条第一項（監査） — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-pension-act-enforcement-order/art-17/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334CO0000000184/art-17/par-1 - 国民年金法施行令 第十七条第二項（監査） — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-pension-act-enforcement-order/art-17/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334CO0000000184/art-17/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-20261104T155001-019, 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