# 国民年金法施行令 / Order for Enforcement of the National Pension Act — 第四条の二 (Article 4-2)

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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: 第四条の二 (Article 4-2)（被扶養配偶者でなくなつたことの届出に関する技術的読替え） — address `art-4-2`
- 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-4-2
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/334CO0000000184/art-4-2
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### 第四条の二（被扶養配偶者でなくなつたことの届出に関する技術的読替え） — Technical Replacement of Terms Concerning Notification of Ceasing to Be a Dependent Spouse
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>art-4-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/national-pension-act-enforcement-order/art-4-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334CO0000000184/art-4-2</sup>

**第一項**  法第十二条の二第二項の規定により法第十二条第六項から第九項までの規定を準用する場合には、次の表の上欄に掲げる同条の規定中同表の中欄に掲げる字句は、それぞれ同表の下欄に掲げる字句に読み替えるものとする。
第六項	前項	次条第一項
第三号被保険者	第三号被保険者であつた者
使用する	使用し、又は使用していた
組合員又は加入者とする	組合員若しくは加入者とし、又は組合員若しくは加入者としていた
第七項及び第八項	使用する	使用し、又は使用していた
第九項	第五項	次条第一項
使用する	使用し、又は使用していた
<sup>art-4-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/national-pension-act-enforcement-order/art-4-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334CO0000000184/art-4-2/par-1</sup>
Where the provisions of Article 12, paragraphs (6) through (9) of the Act are applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 12-2, paragraph (2) of the Act, the terms listed in the middle column of the following table that appear in the provisions of Article 12 of the Act listed in the left-hand column of that table are deemed to be replaced with the terms listed in the right-hand column of that table.
paragraph (6)	the preceding paragraph	paragraph (1) of the following Article
category 3 insured person	person who was a category 3 insured person
employs	employs or employed
is a member or a participant	is or was a member or a participant
paragraphs (7) and (8)	employs	employs or employed
paragraph (9)	paragraph (5)	paragraph (1) of the following Article
employs	employs or employed
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- art-4-2/par-1: 法第十二条の二第二項 → 国民年金法 第十二条の二第二項 (Article 12-2, paragraph (2)), art-12-2/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-pension-act/art-12-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334AC0000000141/art-12-2/par-2
- art-4-2/par-1: 法第十二条第六項から第九項まで → 国民年金法 第十二条第六項 (Article 12, paragraph (6)), art-12/par-6 — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-pension-act/art-12/par-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334AC0000000141/art-12/par-6
- art-4-2/par-1: 法第十二条第六項から第九項まで → 国民年金法 第十二条第七項 (Article 12, paragraph (7)), art-12/par-7 — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-pension-act/art-12/par-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334AC0000000141/art-12/par-7
- art-4-2/par-1: 法第十二条第六項から第九項まで → 国民年金法 第十二条第八項 (Article 12, paragraph (8)), art-12/par-8 — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-pension-act/art-12/par-8 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334AC0000000141/art-12/par-8
- art-4-2/par-1: 法第十二条第六項から第九項まで → 国民年金法 第十二条第九項 (Article 12, paragraph (9)), art-12/par-9 — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-pension-act/art-12/par-9 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334AC0000000141/art-12/par-9
- art-4-2/par-1: 同条 → 国民年金法 第十二条 (Article 12), art-12 — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-pension-act/art-12 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334AC0000000141/art-12
- art-4-2/par-1: 前項 → 国民年金法 第十二条第五項 (Article 12, paragraph (5)), art-12/par-5 — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-pension-act/art-12/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334AC0000000141/art-12/par-5
- art-4-2/par-1: 次条第一項 → 国民年金法 第十二条の二第一項 (Article 12-2, paragraph (1)), art-12-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-pension-act/art-12-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334AC0000000141/art-12-2/par-1

## Cited by

1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction.

- 国民年金法施行令 附則第二項第二号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-pension-act-enforcement-order/suppl-3552-282/par-2/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334CO0000000184/suppl-3552-282/par-2/item-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-20261104T155001-002, translated 2026-11-05
- claude-sonnet-5-5, corrected on review by claude-opus-5-5 — Machine translation corrected on review, batch national-pension-act-enforcement-order-20261104T155001-002, 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
