# 国民年金法 / National Pension Act — 第四条の三 (Article 4-3) - Law: 国民年金法 (National Pension Act), 昭和三十四年法律第百四十一号 - English title "National Pension Act": Ministry of Justice translation database, which lists the title - Kind: Act — 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: 第四条の三 (Article 4-3)（財政の現況及び見通しの作成） — address `art-4-3` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/national-pension-act/art-4-3 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/334AC0000000141/art-4-3 - 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. --- ### 第四条の三（財政の現況及び見通しの作成） — Preparation of the Current State and Outlook of Finances caption: machine translation, not official art-4-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/national-pension-act/art-4-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334AC0000000141/art-4-3 **第一項** 政府は、少なくとも五年ごとに、保険料及び国庫負担の額並びにこの法律による給付に要する費用の額その他の国民年金事業の財政に係る収支についてその現況及び財政均衡期間における見通し（以下「財政の現況及び見通し」という。）を作成しなければならない。 art-4-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/national-pension-act/art-4-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334AC0000000141/art-4-3/par-1 The government must prepare, at least once every five years, the current state and the outlook over the financial equilibrium period (hereinafter referred to as the "current state and outlook of finances") concerning the revenue and expenditure relating to the finances of the National Pension program, including the amount of premiums and the amount of the national treasury's burden, and the amount of the expenses required for benefits under this Act. machine translation, not official **第二項** 前項の財政均衡期間（第十六条の二第一項において「財政均衡期間」という。）は、財政の現況及び見通しが作成される年以降おおむね百年間とする。 art-4-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/national-pension-act/art-4-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334AC0000000141/art-4-3/par-2 The financial equilibrium period referred to in the preceding paragraph (referred to as the "financial equilibrium period" in Article 16-2, paragraph (1)) is to be approximately 100 years from the year in which the current state and outlook of finances is prepared. machine translation, not official **第三項** 政府は、第一項の規定により財政の現況及び見通しを作成したときは、遅滞なく、これを公表しなければならない。 art-4-3/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/national-pension-act/art-4-3/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334AC0000000141/art-4-3/par-3 When the government has prepared the current state and outlook of finances under the provisions of paragraph (1), it must make this public without delay. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-4-3/par-2: 前項 → 国民年金法 第四条の三第一項 (Article 4-3, paragraph (1)), art-4-3/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-pension-act/art-4-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334AC0000000141/art-4-3/par-1 - art-4-3/par-2: 第十六条の二第一項 → 国民年金法 第十六条の二第一項 (Article 16-2, paragraph (1)), art-16-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-pension-act/art-16-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334AC0000000141/art-16-2/par-1 - art-4-3/par-3: 第一項 → 国民年金法 第四条の三第一項 (Article 4-3, paragraph (1)), art-4-3/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-pension-act/art-4-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334AC0000000141/art-4-3/par-1 ## Cited by 18 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 健康保険法 附則第二条第二項（検討等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/suppl-5071-74/art-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-5071-74/art-2/par-2 - 厚生年金保険法 附則第二条第二項（給付水準の下限） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-4161-104/art-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-4161-104/art-2/par-2 - 厚生年金保険法 附則第二条第二項（検討） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-5021-40/art-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-5021-40/art-2/par-2 - 厚生年金保険法 附則第二条第三項（検討） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-5021-40/art-2/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-5021-40/art-2/par-3 - 厚生年金保険法 附則第二条第二項（検討等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-5071-74/art-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-5071-74/art-2/par-2 - 厚生年金保険法 附則第三条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-5071-74/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-5071-74/art-3/par-1 - 厚生年金保険法 附則第三条の二第一項（法制上の措置等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-5071-74/art-3-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-5071-74/art-3-2/par-1 - 国民年金法 第四条の三第二項（財政の現況及び見通しの作成） — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-pension-act/art-4-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334AC0000000141/art-4-3/par-2 - 国民年金法 第四条の三第三項（財政の現況及び見通しの作成） — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-pension-act/art-4-3/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334AC0000000141/art-4-3/par-3 - 国民年金法 第十六条の二第一項（調整期間） — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-pension-act/art-16-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334AC0000000141/art-16-2/par-1 - 国民年金法 附則第二条第二項（給付水準の下限） — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-pension-act/suppl-4161-104/art-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334AC0000000141/suppl-4161-104/art-2/par-2 - 国民年金法 附則第五条第一項（国民年金事業に関する財政の現況及び見通しの作成に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-pension-act/suppl-4161-104/art-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334AC0000000141/suppl-4161-104/art-5/par-1 - 国民年金法 附則第二条第二項（検討） — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-pension-act/suppl-5021-40/art-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334AC0000000141/suppl-5021-40/art-2/par-2 - 国民年金法 附則第二条第三項（検討） — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-pension-act/suppl-5021-40/art-2/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334AC0000000141/suppl-5021-40/art-2/par-3 - 国民年金法 附則第二条第二項（検討等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-pension-act/suppl-5071-74/art-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334AC0000000141/suppl-5071-74/art-2/par-2 - 国民年金法 附則第三条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-pension-act/suppl-5071-74/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334AC0000000141/suppl-5071-74/art-3/par-1 - 国民年金法 附則第三条の二第一項（法制上の措置等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-pension-act/suppl-5071-74/art-3-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334AC0000000141/suppl-5071-74/art-3-2/par-1 - 確定拠出年金法 附則第二条第二項（検討等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/defined-contribution-pension-act/suppl-5071-74/art-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/suppl-5071-74/art-2/par-2 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 国民年金法 — the text in force from 2026-10-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/334AC0000000141/20261001_507AC0000000074), retrieved 2026-10-05 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — 国民年金法 — its English title as the Ministry of Justice's translation database lists it (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/1772), retrieved 2026-09-18 - claude-sonnet-5 — Machine translation, batch national-pension-act-20260923T214903-001, translated 2026-09-24 - This site's parser, version 211 — 国民年金法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-05