# 厚生年金保険法 / Employees' Pension Insurance Act — 第九十九条 (Article 99) - 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: 第九十九条 (Article 99)（事業主の事務） — address `art-99` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-99 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-99 - 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. --- ### 第九十九条（事業主の事務） — (Administrative Functions of Employers) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-99 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-99 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-99 **第一項** 厚生年金保険の施行に必要な事務は、厚生労働省令の定めるところにより、その一部を事業主に行わせることができる。 art-99/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-99/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-99/par-1 The relevant person, pursuant to Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, may have an employer carry out part of the administrative functions that are necessary for the implementation of employees' pension insurance. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 第二号厚生年金被保険者、第三号厚生年金被保険者又は第四号厚生年金被保険者に係る事業主については、前項の規定は、適用しない。 art-99/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-99/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-99/par-2 The provisions of the preceding paragraph do not apply to the employer of a category II EPI insured, category III EPI insured, or category IV EPI insured. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-99/par-2: 前項 → 厚生年金保険法 第九十九条第一項 (Article 99, paragraph (1)), art-99/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-99/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-99/par-1 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 厚生年金保険法 第九十九条第二項（事業主の事務） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-99/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-99/par-2 --- ## 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