# 厚生年金保険法 / Employees' Pension Insurance Act — 第七十九条 (Article 79) - 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: 第七十九条 (Article 79) — address `art-79` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-79 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-79 - 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. --- ### 第七十九条 art-79 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-79 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-79 **第一項** 政府等は、厚生年金保険事業の円滑な実施を図るため、厚生年金保険に関し、次に掲げる事業を行うことができる。 art-79/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-79/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-79/par-1 For the purpose of ensuring the smooth operation of employees' pension insurance services, the government and the implementing organizations may engage in the following services in relation to employees' pension insurance: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **一** 教育及び広報を行うこと。 art-79/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-79/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-79/par-1/item-1 implementing education and public relations; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **二** 被保険者、受給権者その他の関係者（以下この条及び第百条の三の二第一項において「被保険者等」という。）に対し、相談その他の援助を行うこと。 art-79/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-79/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-79/par-1/item-2 providing insureds, beneficiaries, and other concerned persons (hereinafter referred to as "insureds, beneficiaries, and other such persons" in this Article and Article 100-3-2, paragraph (1)) with consultation or other assistance; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **三** 被保険者等に対し、被保険者等が行う手続に関する情報その他の被保険者等の利便の向上に資する情報を提供すること。 art-79/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-79/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-79/par-1/item-3 providing insureds, beneficiaries, and other such persons with information related to procedures that insureds, beneficiaries, and other such persons carry out or other information that contributes to enhanced convenience for insureds, beneficiaries, and other such persons. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 政府等は、厚生年金保険事業の実施に必要な事務（国民年金法第九十四条の二第一項及び第二項の規定による基礎年金拠出金（以下「基礎年金拠出金」という。）の負担及び納付に伴う事務を含む。）を円滑に処理し、被保険者等の利便の向上に資するため、電子情報処理組織の運用を行うものとする。 art-79/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-79/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-79/par-2 The government and the implementing organizations are to smoothly handle the administrative functions that are necessary to implement employees' pension insurance services (including administrative functions involved in bearing monetary contributions to basic pensions and the payment thereof under the provisions of Article 94-2, paragraph (1) and paragraph (2) of the National Pension Act (hereinafter referred to as "basic pension contributions")) and operate an electronic data processing system in order to contribute to enhanced convenience for insureds, beneficiaries, and other such persons. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 政府は、第一項各号に掲げる事業及び前項に規定する運用の全部又は一部を日本年金機構（以下「機構」という。）に行わせることができる。 art-79/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-79/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-79/par-3 The government may entrust the services set forth in each of the items of paragraph (1) and the operations provided for in the preceding paragraph, in whole or in part, to the Japan Pension Service (hereinafter referred to as "JPS"). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-79/par-1/item-2: この条 → 厚生年金保険法 第七十九条 (Article 79), art-79 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-79 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-79 - art-79/par-1/item-2: 第百条の三の二第一項 → 厚生年金保険法 第百条の三の二第一項 (Article 100-3-2, paragraph (1)), art-100-3-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-100-3-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-100-3-2/par-1 - art-79/par-2: 国民年金法第九十四条の二第一項 → 国民年金法 第九十四条の二第一項 (Article 94-2, paragraph (1)), art-94-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-pension-act/art-94-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334AC0000000141/art-94-2/par-1 - art-79/par-2: 第二項 → 国民年金法 第九十四条の二第二項 (Article 94-2, paragraph (2)), art-94-2/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-pension-act/art-94-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334AC0000000141/art-94-2/par-2 - art-79/par-3: 第一項 → 厚生年金保険法 第七十九条第一項 (Article 79, paragraph (1)), art-79/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-79/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-79/par-1 - art-79/par-3: 前項 → 厚生年金保険法 第七十九条第二項 (Article 79, paragraph (2)), art-79/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-79/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-79/par-2 ## Cited by 4 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 厚生年金保険法 第三十二条第一項（保険給付の種類） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-32/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-32/par-1 - 厚生年金保険法 第七十九条第一項第二号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-79/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-79/par-1/item-2 - 厚生年金保険法 第七十九条第三項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-79/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-79/par-3 - 厚生年金保険法 附則第四条第一項（厚生年金保険法の一部改正に伴う経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-4191-110/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-4191-110/art-4/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