# 厚生年金保険法 / Employees' Pension Insurance Act — 第九十二条 (Article 92) - 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: 第九十二条 (Article 92)（時効） — address `art-92` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-92 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-92 - 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. --- ### 第九十二条（時効） — (Prescription) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-92 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-92 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-92 **第一項** 保険料その他この法律の規定による徴収金を徴収し、又はその還付を受ける権利は、これらを行使することができる時から二年を経過したとき、保険給付を受ける権利は、その支給すべき事由が生じた日から五年を経過したとき、当該権利に基づき支払期月ごとに支払うものとされる保険給付の支給を受ける権利は、当該日の属する月の翌月以後に到来する当該保険給付の支給に係る第三十六条第三項本文に規定する支払期月の翌月の初日から五年を経過したとき、保険給付の返還を受ける権利は、これを行使することができる時から五年を経過したときは、時効によつて、消滅する。 art-92/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-92/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-92/par-1 The right to collect insurance premiums and other monies to be collected under the provisions of this Act or to receive a refund of them is extinguished by prescription when two years have passed from the time when it becomes exercisable; the right to receive pension insurance benefits is extinguished by prescription when five years have passed from the day on which the grounds for their payment arose; the right to receive payment of pension insurance benefits that are to be paid in each payment month based on that right is extinguished by prescription when five years have passed from the first day of the month following the payment month prescribed in Article 36, paragraph (3), main clause that relates to the payment of those pension insurance benefits and arrives in or after the month following the month that includes that day; and the right to receive the return of pension insurance benefits is extinguished by prescription when five years have passed from the time when it becomes exercisable. machine translation, not official **第二項** 保険料その他この法律の規定による徴収金を徴収し、若しくはその還付を受ける権利又は保険給付の返還を受ける権利の時効については、その援用を要せず、また、その利益を放棄することができないものとする。 art-92/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-92/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-92/par-2 With regard to prescription of the right to collect insurance premiums and other monies to be collected under the provisions of this Act or to receive a refund of them, or of the right to receive the return of pension insurance benefits, it is not necessary to invoke prescription, and the benefit of it cannot be waived. machine translation, not official **第三項** 年金たる保険給付を受ける権利の時効は、当該年金たる保険給付がその全額につき支給を停止されている間は、進行しない。 art-92/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-92/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-92/par-3 The period of prescription of the right to receive pension insurance benefits does not run during any time in which the payment of the entire amount of pension insurance benefits has been suspended. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第四項** 保険料その他この法律の規定による徴収金の納入の告知又は第八十六条第一項の規定による督促は、時効の更新の効力を有する。 art-92/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-92/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-92/par-4 Payment notices for insurance premiums and other monies to be collected under the provisions of this Act and demands for payment under the provisions of Article 86, paragraph (1) have the effect of renewing prescription. machine translation, not official **第五項** 第一項に規定する保険給付を受ける権利又は当該権利に基づき支払期月ごとに支払うものとされる保険給付の支給を受ける権利については、会計法（昭和二十二年法律第三十五号）第三十一条の規定を適用しない。 art-92/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-92/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-92/par-5 The provisions of Article 31 of the Public Accounting Act (Act No. 35 of 1947) do not apply to the right to receive pension insurance benefits as provided in paragraph (1) or to the right to receive payment of pension insurance benefits that are to be paid in each payment month based on that right. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-92/par-1: 第三十六条第三項 → 厚生年金保険法 第三十六条第三項 (Article 36, paragraph (3)), art-36/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-36/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-36/par-3 - art-92/par-4: 第八十六条第一項 → 厚生年金保険法 第八十六条第一項 (Article 86, paragraph (1)), art-86/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-86/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-86/par-1 - art-92/par-5: 第一項 → 厚生年金保険法 第九十二条第一項 (Article 92, paragraph (1)), art-92/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-92/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-92/par-1 - art-92/par-5: 会計法（昭和二十二年法律第三十五号）第三十一条 → e-Gov law 322AC0000000035, 第三十一条 (Article 31), art-31 — not held in this collection ## Cited by 6 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 厚生年金保険法 第九十二条第五項（時効） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-92/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-92/par-5 - 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-4191-111/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-4191-111/art-4/par-1 - 厚生年金保険法 附則第八十二条第一項（徴収金の督促及び滞納処分等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-4251-63/art-82/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-4251-63/art-82/par-1 - 厚生年金保険法 附則第八十二条第二項（徴収金の督促及び滞納処分等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-4251-63/art-82/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-4251-63/art-82/par-2 - 厚生年金保険法 附則第九条第一項（改正後の厚生年金保険法における時効に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-5021-40/art-9/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-5021-40/art-9/par-1 - 租税特別措置法 第四十一条の十五の四第一項（消滅時効を援用せずに支払うこととされた公的年金等に対する源泉徴収の不適用） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/special-taxation-measures-act/art-41-15-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/332AC0000000026/art-41-15-4/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 - 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