# 国民年金法 / National Pension Act — 第八十八条の三 (Article 88-3) - 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: 第八十八条の三 (Article 88-3) — address `art-88-3` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/national-pension-act/art-88-3 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/334AC0000000141/art-88-3 - 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. --- ### 第八十八条の三 art-88-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/national-pension-act/art-88-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334AC0000000141/art-88-3 **第一項** 前条の規定の適用を受けた被保険者が同条の出産に係る子を養育する場合においては、当該被保険者は、当該出産予定日から起算して三月を経過した日の属する月から当該出産予定日から起算して十二月を経過した日（当該日の前日までに、当該子が死亡したときその他当該被保険者が当該子を養育しないこととなつた事由として厚生労働省令で定める事由が生じたときは、当該事由が生じた日の翌日）が属する月の前月までの期間（当該子以外の子に係る同条の規定の適用を受ける期間を除く。）に係る保険料は、納付することを要しない。 art-88-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/national-pension-act/art-88-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334AC0000000141/art-88-3/par-1 Where an insured person to whom the provisions of the preceding Article applied raises a child in connection with the childbirth referred to in that Article, the insured person is not required to pay the premium for the period from the month containing the day on which three months have passed from the expected date of childbirth until the month preceding the month containing the day on which twelve months have passed from the expected date of childbirth (or, if, by the day preceding that day, the child has died or an event specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare as an event on account of which the insured person has come to no longer raise the child has arisen, the day following the day on which that event arose) (excluding a period during which the provisions of that Article apply in connection with a child other than that child). machine translation, not official **第二項** 被保険者（前項に規定する被保険者を除く。）は、その子（民法（明治二十九年法律第八十九号）第八百十七条の二第一項の規定により被保険者が当該被保険者との間における同項に規定する特別養子縁組の成立について家庭裁判所に請求した者（当該請求に係る家事審判事件が裁判所に係属している場合に限る。）であつて当該被保険者が現に監護するもの、児童福祉法（昭和二十二年法律第百六十四号）第二十七条第一項（第三号に係る部分に限る。）の規定により同法第六条の四第二号に規定する養子縁組里親である被保険者に委託されている児童及びこれらの被保険者に準ずる者として厚生労働省令で定める被保険者に厚生労働省令で定めるところにより委託されている者を含む。以下この項、第百六条第一項及び第百八条第二項において同じ。）を養育することとなつた日の属する月から当該子が一歳に達する日（当該子が一歳に達する日の前日までに、当該子が死亡したときその他当該被保険者が当該子を養育しないこととなつた事由として厚生労働省令で定める事由が生じたときは、当該事由が生じた日）の翌日が属する月の前月までの期間（当該子以外の子に係る前条の規定の適用を受ける期間を除く。）に係る保険料は、納付することを要しない。 art-88-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/national-pension-act/art-88-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334AC0000000141/art-88-3/par-2 An insured person (excluding an insured person prescribed in the preceding paragraph) is not required to pay the premium for the period from the month containing the day on which that person came to raise that person's child (including a child for whom the insured person has requested a family court, under Article 817-2, paragraph (1) of the Civil Code (Act No. 89 of 1896), for the formation of the special adoption relationship prescribed in that paragraph between that child and the insured person (limited to a case where the domestic relations case pertaining to that request is pending in a court) and whom the insured person actually takes care of, a child entrusted, under Article 27, paragraph (1) (limited to the part pertaining to item (iii)) of the Child Welfare Act (Act No. 164 of 1947), to an insured person who is a foster parent for adoption prescribed in Article 6-4, item (ii) of that Act, and a person entrusted, as specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, to an insured person specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare as a person equivalent to these insured persons; hereinafter the same applies in this paragraph, Article 106, paragraph (1), and Article 108, paragraph (2)) until the month preceding the month containing the day following the day on which that child reaches one year of age (or, if, by the day preceding the day on which the child reaches one year of age, the child has died or an event specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare as an event on account of which the insured person has come to no longer raise the child has arisen, the day on which that event arose) (excluding a period during which the provisions of the preceding Article apply in connection with a child other than that child). machine translation, not official **第三項** 前二項の規定により納付することを要しないものとされた保険料に相当する額については、政令で定めるところにより、子ども・子育て支援法（平成二十四年法律第六十五号）の規定により政府が徴収する子ども・子育て支援納付金により補塡するものとする。 art-88-3/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/national-pension-act/art-88-3/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334AC0000000141/art-88-3/par-3 The amount equivalent to the premiums that are not required to be paid under the preceding two paragraphs is to be, as specified by Cabinet Order, made up for by the child and child-rearing support contribution collected by the government under the Act on Support for Children and Child-rearing (Act No. 65 of 2012). machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-88-3/par-1: 前条 → 国民年金法 第八十八条の二 (Article 88-2), art-88-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-pension-act/art-88-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334AC0000000141/art-88-2 - art-88-3/par-2: 前項 → 国民年金法 第八十八条の三第一項 (Article 88-3, paragraph (1)), art-88-3/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-pension-act/art-88-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334AC0000000141/art-88-3/par-1 - art-88-3/par-2: 民法（明治二十九年法律第八十九号）第八百十七条の二第一項 → 民法 第八百十七条の二第一項 (Article 817-2, paragraph (1)), art-817-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-817-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-817-2/par-1 - art-88-3/par-2: 児童福祉法（昭和二十二年法律第百六十四号）第二十七条第一項 → e-Gov law 322AC0000000164, 第二十七条第一項 (Article 27, paragraph (1)), art-27/par-1 — not held in this collection - art-88-3/par-2: 第三号 → e-Gov law 322AC0000000164, 第二十七条第一項第三号 (Article 27, paragraph (1), item (iii)), art-27/par-1/item-3 — not held in this collection - art-88-3/par-2: 同法第六条の四第二号 → e-Gov law 322AC0000000164, 第六条の四第一項第二号 (Article 6-4, paragraph (1), item (ii)), art-6-4/par-1/item-2 — not held in this collection - art-88-3/par-2: この項 → 国民年金法 第八十八条の三第二項 (Article 88-3, paragraph (2)), art-88-3/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-pension-act/art-88-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334AC0000000141/art-88-3/par-2 - art-88-3/par-2: 第百六条第一項 → 国民年金法 第百六条第一項 (Article 106, paragraph (1)), art-106/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-pension-act/art-106/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334AC0000000141/art-106/par-1 - art-88-3/par-2: 第百八条第二項 → 国民年金法 第百八条第二項 (Article 108, paragraph (2)), art-108/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-pension-act/art-108/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334AC0000000141/art-108/par-2 - art-88-3/par-2: 前条 → 国民年金法 第八十八条の二 (Article 88-2), art-88-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-pension-act/art-88-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334AC0000000141/art-88-2 - art-88-3/par-3: 前二項 → 国民年金法 第八十八条の三第一項 (Article 88-3, paragraph (1)), art-88-3/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-pension-act/art-88-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334AC0000000141/art-88-3/par-1 - art-88-3/par-3: 前二項 → 国民年金法 第八十八条の三第二項 (Article 88-3, paragraph (2)), art-88-3/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-pension-act/art-88-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334AC0000000141/art-88-3/par-2 ## Cited by 12 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 国民年金法 第五条第一項（用語の定義） — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-pension-act/art-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334AC0000000141/art-5/par-1 - 国民年金法 第八十七条の二第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-pension-act/art-87-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334AC0000000141/art-87-2/par-2 - 国民年金法 第八十八条の二第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-pension-act/art-88-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334AC0000000141/art-88-2/par-1 - 国民年金法 第八十八条の三第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-pension-act/art-88-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334AC0000000141/art-88-3/par-2 - 国民年金法 第八十八条の三第三項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-pension-act/art-88-3/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334AC0000000141/art-88-3/par-3 - 国民年金法 第八十九条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-pension-act/art-89/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334AC0000000141/art-89/par-1 - 国民年金法 附則第五条第十項（任意加入被保険者） — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-pension-act/suppl-3341-141/art-5/par-10 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334AC0000000141/suppl-3341-141/art-5/par-10 - 国民年金法 附則第九条の二の六第一項（保険料の免除に要する費用の財源の特例） — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-pension-act/suppl-3341-141/art-9-2-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334AC0000000141/suppl-3341-141/art-9-2-6/par-1 - 国民年金法 附則第十一条第十項（任意加入被保険者の特例） — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-pension-act/suppl-4061-95/art-11/par-10 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334AC0000000141/suppl-4061-95/art-11/par-10 - 国民年金法 附則第二十三条第十項（任意加入被保険者の特例） — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-pension-act/suppl-4161-104/art-23/par-10 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334AC0000000141/suppl-4161-104/art-23/par-10 - 国民年金法 附則第十条第一項（国民年金法の一部改正に伴う経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-pension-act/suppl-5061-47/art-10/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334AC0000000141/suppl-5061-47/art-10/par-1 - 国民年金法 附則第四十条第十項（任意加入被保険者の特例） — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-pension-act/suppl-5071-74/art-40/par-10 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334AC0000000141/suppl-5071-74/art-40/par-10 --- ## 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-opus-5-5 — Machine translation, batch national-pension-act-20261005T061954-001, translated 2026-10-05 - This site's parser, version 209 — 国民年金法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-05