# 厚生年金保険法 / Employees' Pension Insurance Act — 第九十三条 (Article 93)

- 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: 第九十三条 (Article 93)（期間の計算） — address `art-93`
- Text in force since: 2026-10-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-93
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-93
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### 第九十三条（期間の計算） — (Calculation of Periods of Time)
<sup>caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>
<sup>art-93 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-93 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-93</sup>

**第一項**  この法律又はこの法律に基づく命令に規定する期間の計算については、この法律に別段の規定がある場合を除くほか、民法（明治二十九年法律第八十九号）の期間に関する規定を準用する。
<sup>art-93/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-93/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-93/par-1</sup>
Unless otherwise provided for in this Act, the provisions of the Civil Code (Act No. 89 of 1896) concerning periods of time apply mutatis mutandis to the calculation of periods of time provided for in this Act and orders issued hereunder.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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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-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