# 厚生年金保険法 / Employees' Pension Insurance Act — 第十一条 (Article 11) - 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: 第十一条 (Article 11) — address `art-11` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-11 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-11 - 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. Every English rendering below is a translation and says which kind: the Ministry of Justice's translation, or this site's machine translation, whose model and date the Sources list names. They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第十一条 art-11 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-11 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-11 **第一項** 前条の規定による被保険者は、厚生労働大臣の認可を受けて、被保険者の資格を喪失することができる。 art-11/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-11/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-11/par-1 An insured under the provisions of the preceding Article may forfeit status as an insured with the approval of the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-11/par-1: 前条 → 厚生年金保険法 第十条 (Article 10), art-10 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-10 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-10 ## Cited by 4 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 厚生年金保険法 第十四条第一項第三号（資格喪失の時期） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-14/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-14/par-1/item-3 - 厚生年金保険法 第二十九条第一項（通知） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-29/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-29/par-1 - 厚生年金保険法 第百条の四第一項第二号（機構への厚生労働大臣の権限に係る事務の委任） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-100-4/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-100-4/par-1/item-2 - 厚生年金保険法 附則第四条の五第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3291-115/art-4-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3291-115/art-4-5/par-1 --- ## 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 - This site's parser, version 190 — 厚生年金保険法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-13