# 厚生年金保険法施行令 / Order for Enforcement of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act — 第四条の二の十二 (Article 4-2-12) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act-enforcement-order/art-4-2-12. Every law, and how to address a provision: https://japanlaw.org/llms.txt. The same laws as MCP tools (no sign-in): https://japanlaw.org/mcp. - Law: 厚生年金保険法施行令 (Order for Enforcement of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act), 昭和二十九年政令第百十号 - English title "Order for Enforcement of the Employees' Pension Insurance 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: 第四条の二の十二 (Article 4-2-12) — address `art-4-2-12` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act-enforcement-order/art-4-2-12 - e-Gov law ID: 329CO0000000110 — never renamed. A permanent link, `/l/{lawId}/{address}` on this site, redirects to the page. - Every provision below carries its address and its URL 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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第四条の二の十二 art-4-2-12 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act-enforcement-order/art-4-2-12 **第一項** 実施機関は、毎年度において前条第一項又は第四項の規定により納付した拠出金の額を合算した額が法第八十四条の六第一項の規定により計算した当該年度における拠出金の額に満たないときは、厚生労働省令で定めるところにより、その満たない額の拠出金を翌々年度までに厚生年金保険の管掌者たる政府に納付しなければならない。 art-4-2-12/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act-enforcement-order/art-4-2-12/par-1 If, in a fiscal year, the amount obtained by adding together the amounts of the contributions paid pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) or (4) of the preceding Article is less than the amount of the contribution for that fiscal year calculated pursuant to the provisions of Article 84-6, paragraph (1) of the Act, the implementing organization must, as provided by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, pay the shortfall in the contribution to the government, as the administrator of employees' pension insurance, by the fiscal year after next. machine translation, not official **第二項** 厚生年金保険の管掌者たる政府は、毎年度において実施機関が前条第一項又は第四項の規定により納付した拠出金の額を合算した額が法第八十四条の六第一項の規定により計算した当該年度における拠出金の額を超えるときは、厚生労働省令で定めるところにより、その超える額を翌々年度までに前条第一項の規定により当該実施機関が納付すべき拠出金に充当し、なお残余があるときは、還付するものとする。 art-4-2-12/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act-enforcement-order/art-4-2-12/par-2 If, in a fiscal year, the amount obtained by adding together the amounts of the contributions paid by an implementing organization pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) or (4) of the preceding Article exceeds the amount of the contribution for that fiscal year calculated pursuant to the provisions of Article 84-6, paragraph (1) of the Act, the government, as the administrator of employees' pension insurance, is to, as provided by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, apply the excess amount, by the fiscal year after next, to the contribution that the implementing organization is to pay pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) of the preceding Article, and refund any remainder if there is one. machine translation, not official **第三項** 厚生労働大臣は、前二項に規定する厚生労働省令を定めるときは、実施機関を所管する大臣に協議しなければならない。 art-4-2-12/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act-enforcement-order/art-4-2-12/par-3 When establishing the Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare prescribed in the preceding two paragraphs, the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare must consult the minister having jurisdiction over the implementing organization. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-4-2-12/par-1: 前条第一項 → 厚生年金保険法施行令 第四条の二の十一第一項 (Article 4-2-11, paragraph (1)), art-4-2-11/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act-enforcement-order/art-4-2-11/par-1 - art-4-2-12/par-1: 第四項 → 厚生年金保険法施行令 第四条の二の十一第四項 (Article 4-2-11, paragraph (4)), art-4-2-11/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act-enforcement-order/art-4-2-11/par-4 - art-4-2-12/par-1: 法第八十四条の六第一項 → 厚生年金保険法 第八十四条の六第一項 (Article 84-6, paragraph (1)), art-84-6/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-84-6/par-1 (e-Gov law ID 329AC0000000115) - art-4-2-12/par-2: 前条第一項 → 厚生年金保険法施行令 第四条の二の十一第一項 (Article 4-2-11, paragraph (1)), art-4-2-11/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act-enforcement-order/art-4-2-11/par-1 - art-4-2-12/par-2: 第四項 → 厚生年金保険法施行令 第四条の二の十一第四項 (Article 4-2-11, paragraph (4)), art-4-2-11/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act-enforcement-order/art-4-2-11/par-4 - art-4-2-12/par-2: 法第八十四条の六第一項 → 厚生年金保険法 第八十四条の六第一項 (Article 84-6, paragraph (1)), art-84-6/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-84-6/par-1 (e-Gov law ID 329AC0000000115) - art-4-2-12/par-3: 前二項 → 厚生年金保険法施行令 第四条の二の十二第一項 (Article 4-2-12, paragraph (1)), art-4-2-12/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act-enforcement-order/art-4-2-12/par-1 - art-4-2-12/par-3: 前二項 → 厚生年金保険法施行令 第四条の二の十二第二項 (Article 4-2-12, paragraph (2)), art-4-2-12/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act-enforcement-order/art-4-2-12/par-2 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 厚生年金保険法施行令 第四条の二の十二第三項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act-enforcement-order/art-4-2-12/par-3 - 厚生年金保険法施行令 第八条の八第三項（拠出金の額の算定に関する特例に係る技術的読替え） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act-enforcement-order/art-8-8/par-3 --- ## Sources - claude-opus-5-5 — English title of a law in this collection, written for this site, written 2026-11-06 - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 厚生年金保険法施行令 — the text in force from 2026-10-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/329CO0000000110/20261001_508CO0000000276), retrieved 2026-11-06 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch employees-pension-insurance-act-enforcement-order-20261106T164949-017, translated 2026-11-07 - claude-sonnet-5-5, corrected on review by claude-opus-5-5 — Machine translation corrected on review, batch employees-pension-insurance-act-enforcement-order-20261106T164949-018, translated 2026-11-07 - This site's parser, version 229 — 厚生年金保険法施行令 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-06