# 厚生年金保険法 / Employees' Pension Insurance Act — 第四十一条 (Article 41)

- 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: 第四十一条 (Article 41)（受給権の保護及び公課の禁止） — address `art-41`
- Text in force since: 2026-10-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-41
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-41
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### 第四十一条（受給権の保護及び公課の禁止） — (Protection of Right to Receive Benefits and Prohibition of Imposition of Public Charges)
<sup>caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>
<sup>art-41 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-41 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-41</sup>

  **第一項**  保険給付を受ける権利は、譲り渡し、担保に供し、又は差し押えることができない。ただし、老齢厚生年金を受ける権利を国税滞納処分（その例による処分を含む。）により差し押える場合は、この限りでない。
  <sup>art-41/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-41/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-41/par-1</sup>
  The right to receive insurance benefits may not be assigned, provided as collateral, or attached; provided, however, that this does not apply if the right to receive the employees' old-age pension is attached in collection proceedings for delinquent national tax (including a procedure to be enforced pursuant to the provisions on collection proceedings for delinquent national tax).
  <sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

  **第二項**  租税その他の公課は、保険給付として支給を受けた金銭を標準として、課することができない。ただし、老齢厚生年金については、この限りでない。
  <sup>art-41/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-41/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-41/par-2</sup>
  Taxes and other public charges may not be imposed upon money paid as insurance benefits; provided, however, that this does not apply to employees' old-age pensions.
  <sup>Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>

## Cited by

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

- 労働者災害補償保険法 附則第八十一条第一項（受給権の保護に関する特例） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/industrial-accident-insurance-act/suppl-5021-40/art-81/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000050/suppl-5021-40/art-81/par-1
- 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
- 厚生年金保険法 附則第二十六条第五項（適格退職年金契約に係る権利義務の厚生年金基金への移転） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-4131-50/art-26/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-4131-50/art-26/par-5
- 厚生年金保険法 附則第八十一条第一項（受給権の保護に関する特例） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-5021-40/art-81/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-5021-40/art-81/par-1
- 国民年金法 附則第八十一条第一項（受給権の保護に関する特例） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-pension-act/suppl-5021-40/art-81/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334AC0000000141/suppl-5021-40/art-81/par-1
- 法人税法 附則第二十六条第五項（適格退職年金契約に係る権利義務の厚生年金基金への移転） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/corporation-tax-act/suppl-4131-50/art-26/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/340AC0000000034/suppl-4131-50/art-26/par-5

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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-20261013T073658-001, 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
