# 国民年金法施行令 / Order for Enforcement of the National Pension Act — 第四条の四 (Article 4-4)

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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: 第四条の四 (Article 4-4)（法第二十条第二項の政令で定める規定） — address `art-4-4`
- 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-4-4
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/334CO0000000184/art-4-4
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### 第四条の四（法第二十条第二項の政令で定める規定） — Provisions Specified by Cabinet Order under Article 20, Paragraph (2) of the Act
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<sup>art-4-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/national-pension-act-enforcement-order/art-4-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334CO0000000184/art-4-4</sup>

**第一項**  法第二十条第二項に規定する政令で定める規定は、次のとおりとする。
<sup>art-4-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/national-pension-act-enforcement-order/art-4-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334CO0000000184/art-4-4/par-1</sup>
The provisions specified by Cabinet Order as prescribed in Article 20, paragraph (2) of the Act are as follows:
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

**一**  昭和六十年改正法附則第十一条第四項において準用する法第二十条第二項本文及び第三項
<sup>art-4-4/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/national-pension-act-enforcement-order/art-4-4/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334CO0000000184/art-4-4/par-1/item-1</sup>
The main clause of Article 20, paragraph (2) and paragraph (3) of the Act as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 11, paragraph (4) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 1985 Amendment Act;
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**二**  厚生年金保険法第三十八条第二項本文及び第三項（昭和六十年改正法附則第五十六条第三項において準用する場合を含む。）
<sup>art-4-4/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/national-pension-act-enforcement-order/art-4-4/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334CO0000000184/art-4-4/par-1/item-2</sup>
The main clause of Article 38, paragraph (2) and paragraph (3) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 56, paragraph (3) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 1985 Amendment Act).
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- art-4-4: 法第二十条第二項 → 国民年金法 第二十条第二項 (Article 20, paragraph (2)), art-20/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-pension-act/art-20/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334AC0000000141/art-20/par-2
- art-4-4/par-1: 法第二十条第二項 → 国民年金法 第二十条第二項 (Article 20, paragraph (2)), art-20/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-pension-act/art-20/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334AC0000000141/art-20/par-2
- art-4-4/par-1/item-1: 法第二十条第二項 → 国民年金法 第二十条第二項 (Article 20, paragraph (2)), art-20/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-pension-act/art-20/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334AC0000000141/art-20/par-2
- art-4-4/par-1/item-1: 第三項 → 国民年金法 第二十条第三項 (Article 20, paragraph (3)), art-20/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-pension-act/art-20/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334AC0000000141/art-20/par-3
- art-4-4/par-1/item-2: 厚生年金保険法第三十八条第二項 → 厚生年金保険法 第三十八条第二項 (Article 38, paragraph (2)), art-38/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-38/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-38/par-2
- art-4-4/par-1/item-2: 第三項 → 厚生年金保険法 第三十八条第三項 (Article 38, paragraph (3)), art-38/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-38/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-38/par-3

## Cited by

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

- 国民年金法施行令 附則第三条第一項（国民年金法施行令の一部改正に伴う経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-pension-act-enforcement-order/suppl-4142-43/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334CO0000000184/suppl-4142-43/art-3/par-1

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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-20261104T155001-003, 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