# 厚生年金保険法 / Employees' Pension Insurance Act — 第七十八条の二十六 (Article 78-26) - 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: 第七十八条の二十六 (Article 78-26)（老齢厚生年金の受給権者及び年金額の特例） — address `art-78-26` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-78-26 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-78-26 - 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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第七十八条の二十六（老齢厚生年金の受給権者及び年金額の特例） — (Special Provisions on the Beneficiaries of Employees' Old-Age Pensions and Amounts of Pension Benefits) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-78-26 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-78-26 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-78-26 **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老齢厚生年金について、第四十二条（この法律及び他の法令において、引用し、準用し、又はその例による場合を含む。）の規定を適用する場合においては、各号の厚生年金被保険者期間に係る被保険者期間ごとに適用する。 art-78-26/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-78-26/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-78-26/par-1 When the provisions of Article 42 are applied (including when these are cited in this Act and other laws and regulations, are applied mutatis mutandis to this Act and other laws and regulations, or govern this Act and other laws and regulations) to the employees' old-age pension of a person who has spent time as an insured in two or more categories, those provisions apply to each insured period that constitutes a category of EPI insured period. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 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老齢厚生年金について、第四十三条（この法律及び他の法令において、引用し、準用し、又はその例による場合を含む。）の規定を適用する場合においては、同条第一項に規定する被保険者であつた全期間並びに同条第二項及び第三項に規定する被保険者であつた期間は、各号の厚生年金被保険者期間ごとに適用し、同条第一項に規定する被保険者期間は、各号の厚生年金被保険者期間に係る被保険者期間ごとに適用し、同条第二項及び第三項に規定する被保険者の資格は、被保険者の種別ごとに適用する。 art-78-26/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-78-26/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-78-26/par-2 When the provisions of Article 43 (including when these are cited in this Act and other laws and regulations, are applied mutatis mutandis to this Act and other laws and regulations, or govern this Act and other laws and regulations) are applied to the employees' old-age pension of a person who has spent time as an insured in two or more categories, the whole period during which the person was an insured as provided in paragraph (1) of that Article and the periods during which the person was an insured as provided for in paragraphs (2) and (3) of that Article are applied in each category of EPI insured period; the insured period as provided in paragraph (1) of that Article is applied in each insured period that constitutes a category of EPI insured period; and the person's status as an insured as provided in paragraphs (2) and (3) of that Article is applied in each insured category. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-78-26/par-1: 第四十二条 → 厚生年金保険法 第四十二条 (Article 42), art-42 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-42 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-42 - art-78-26/par-2: 第四十三条 → 厚生年金保険法 第四十三条 (Article 43), art-43 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-43 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-43 - art-78-26/par-2: 同条第一項 → 厚生年金保険法 第四十三条第一項 (Article 43, paragraph (1)), art-43/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-43/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-43/par-1 - art-78-26/par-2: 同条第二項 → 厚生年金保険法 第四十三条第二項 (Article 43, paragraph (2)), art-43/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-43/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-43/par-2 - art-78-26/par-2: 第三項 → 厚生年金保険法 第四十三条第三項 (Article 43, paragraph (3)), art-43/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-43/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-43/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 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch employees-pension-insurance-act-20261013T074650-001, 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