# 厚生年金保険法 / Employees' Pension Insurance Act — 第四十条の二 (Article 40-2) - 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: 第四十条の二 (Article 40-2)（不正利得の徴収） — address `art-40-2` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-40-2 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-40-2 - 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. --- ### 第四十条の二（不正利得の徴収） — (Collection of a Benefit Wrongfully Gained) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-40-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-40-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-40-2 **第一項** 偽りその他不正の手段により保険給付を受けた者があるときは、実施機関は、受給額に相当する金額の全部又は一部をその者から徴収することができる。 art-40-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-40-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-40-2/par-1 If a person has received insurance benefits by deception or other wrongful means, the implementing organization may collect from that person an amount equal to all or part of the benefits that the person received. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 4 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 厚生年金保険法 第八十七条第六項（延滞金） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-87/par-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-87/par-6 - 厚生年金保険法 第百条の十第一項第八号（機構への事務の委託） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-100-10/par-1/item-8 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-100-10/par-1/item-8 - 厚生年金保険法 第百条の十第一項第三十二号（機構への事務の委託） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-100-10/par-1/item-32 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-100-10/par-1/item-32 - 厚生年金保険法 附則第二十九条第九項（日本国籍を有しない者に対する脱退一時金の支給） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3291-115/art-29/par-9 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3291-115/art-29/par-9 --- ## 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