# 国民年金法施行令 / Order for Enforcement of the National Pension Act — 第十八条 (Article 18)

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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: 第十八条 (Article 18)（事務の区分） — address `art-18`
- 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-18
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/334CO0000000184/art-18
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### 第十八条（事務の区分） — Category of Administrative Affairs
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>art-18 · https://japanlaw.org/en/national-pension-act-enforcement-order/art-18 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334CO0000000184/art-18</sup>

**第一項**  第一条の二の規定により市町村が処理することとされている事務は、地方自治法（昭和二十二年法律第六十七号）第二条第九項第一号に規定する第一号法定受託事務とする。
<sup>art-18/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/national-pension-act-enforcement-order/art-18/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334CO0000000184/art-18/par-1</sup>
The administrative affairs that are to be processed by municipalities pursuant to the provisions of Article 1-2 are Type 1 statutory entrusted functions prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (9), item (i) of the Local Autonomy Act (Act No. 67 of 1947).
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- art-18/par-1: 第一条の二 → 国民年金法施行令 第一条の二 (Article 1-2), art-1-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-pension-act-enforcement-order/art-1-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334CO0000000184/art-1-2
- art-18/par-1: 地方自治法（昭和二十二年法律第六十七号）第二条第九項第一号 → e-Gov law 322AC0000000067, 第二条第九項第一号 (Article 2, paragraph (9), item (i)), art-2/par-9/item-1 — not held in this collection

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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-20261104T155001-019, 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