# 国民年金法施行令 / Order for Enforcement of the National Pension Act — 第七条 (Article 7)

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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: 第七条 (Article 7)（保険料の前納期間） — address `art-7`
- 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-7
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### 第七条（保険料の前納期間） — Period for Advance Payment of Premiums
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>art-7 · https://japanlaw.org/en/national-pension-act-enforcement-order/art-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334CO0000000184/art-7</sup>

**第一項**  法第九十三条第一項の規定による保険料の前納は、厚生労働大臣が定める期間につき、六月又は年を単位として、行うものとする。ただし、厚生労働大臣が定める期間のすべての保険料（既に前納されたものを除く。）をまとめて前納する場合においては、六月又は年を単位として行うことを要しない。
<sup>art-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/national-pension-act-enforcement-order/art-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334CO0000000184/art-7/par-1</sup>
Advance payment of premiums under Article 93, paragraph (1) of the Act is to be made, for the period specified by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare, in units of six months or a year; provided, however, that where the premiums for the whole of the period specified by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare (excluding those already paid in advance) are paid in advance together, it is not required to be made in units of six months or a year.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- art-7/par-1: 法第九十三条第一項 → 国民年金法 第九十三条第一項 (Article 93, paragraph (1)), art-93/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-pension-act/art-93/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334AC0000000141/art-93/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-20261104T155001-009, 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