# 厚生年金保険法 / Employees' Pension Insurance Act — 第百三条 (Article 103)

- Law: 厚生年金保険法 (Employees' Pension Insurance Act), 昭和二十九年法律第百十五号
- English title "Employees' Pension Insurance Act": Ministry of Justice translation
- 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: 第百三条 (Article 103) — address `art-103`
- Text in force since: 2026-10-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-103
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-103
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### 第百三条
<sup>art-103 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-103 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-103</sup>

**第一項**  適用事業所等の事業主以外の者が、第百条第一項の規定に違反して、当該職員の質問に対して答弁せず、若しくは虚偽の陳述をし、又は検査を拒み、妨げ、若しくは忌避したときは、六月以下の拘禁刑又は三十万円以下の罰金に処する。
<sup>art-103/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-103/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-103/par-1</sup>
If, in violation of the provisions of Article 100, paragraph (1), a person other than an employer of an applicable place of business, etc. has failed to answer the questions of a competent official or has given a false statement to that official, or has refused, disrupted, or evaded that official's inspection, the person is subject to imprisonment for a period of not more than six months or a fine of not more than 300,000 yen.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- art-103/par-1: 第百条第一項 → 厚生年金保険法 第百条第一項 (Article 100, paragraph (1)), art-100/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-100/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-100/par-1

## Cited by

4 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction.

- 厚生年金保険法 第二十七条第一項（届出） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-27/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-27/par-1
- 厚生年金保険法 第百条第一項（立入検査等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-100/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-100/par-1
- 厚生年金保険法 第百二条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-102/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-102/par-2
- 厚生年金保険法 第百四条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-104/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-104/par-1

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## Sources

- e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 厚生年金保険法 — the text in force from 2026-10-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/329AC0000000115/20261001_507AC0000000074), retrieved 2026-10-13
- Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Employees' Pension Insurance Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3554/tb), retrieved 2026-10-13
- claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch employees-pension-insurance-act-20261013T074650-002, translated 2026-10-13
- This site's parser, version 190 — 厚生年金保険法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-13
