# 厚生年金保険法 / Employees' Pension Insurance Act — 第七十八条の二十三 (Article 78-23) - 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: 第七十八条の二十三 (Article 78-23)（年金たる保険給付の申出による支給停止の特例） — address `art-78-23` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-78-23 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-78-23 - 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. --- ### 第七十八条の二十三（年金たる保険給付の申出による支給停止の特例） — (Special Provisions on Suspending Payments of Pension Insurance Benefits Upon Request) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-78-23 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-78-23 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-78-23 **第一項** 二以上の種別の被保険者であつた期間を有する者に係る年金たる保険給付の受給権者について、一の期間に基づく第三十八条の二第一項に規定する年金たる保険給付についての同項の規定による申出又は同条第三項の規定による撤回は、当該一の期間に基づく年金たる保険給付と同一の支給事由に基づく他の期間に基づく年金たる保険給付についての当該申出又は当該撤回と同時に行わなければならない。 art-78-23/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-78-23/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-78-23/par-1 A beneficiary of the pension insurance benefits of a person who has spent time as an insured in two or more categories must file a request under the provisions of Article 38-2, paragraph (1) or withdrawing it as under the provisions of paragraph (3) of that Article regarding pension insurance benefits as prescribed in paragraph (1) of that Article that are based on the person's time in one category at the same time as filing such a request or withdrawing it regarding pension insurance benefits that are based on the person's time in another category and on the same grounds for payment as the grounds for payment of the pension insurance benefits that are based on the person's time in that one category. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-78-23/par-1: 第三十八条の二第一項 → 厚生年金保険法 第三十八条の二第一項 (Article 38-2, paragraph (1)), art-38-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-38-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-38-2/par-1 - art-78-23/par-1: 同条第三項 → 厚生年金保険法 第三十八条の二第三項 (Article 38-2, paragraph (3)), art-38-2/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-38-2/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-38-2/par-3 --- ## 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