# 厚生年金保険法 / Employees' Pension Insurance Act — 第二条の二 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 2-2) - 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: 第二条の二 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 2-2)（適用事業所の範囲の拡大） — address `suppl-3291-115/art-2-2` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3291-115/art-2-2 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3291-115/art-2-2 - 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. --- ### 第二条の二（適用事業所の範囲の拡大） — Expansion of the Scope of Applicable Places of Business caption: machine translation, not official suppl-3291-115/art-2-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3291-115/art-2-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3291-115/art-2-2 **第一項** 政府は、常時五人以上の従業員を使用しないことにより厚生年金保険の適用事業所とされていない事業所について、他の社会保険制度との関連も考慮しつつ、適用事業所とするための効率的方策を調査研究し、その結果に基づいて、すみやかに、必要な措置を講ずるものとする。 suppl-3291-115/art-2-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3291-115/art-2-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3291-115/art-2-2/par-1 With regard to a place of business that is not treated as an applicable place of business of employees' pension insurance because it does not regularly employ five or more persons, the government is to investigate and research efficient measures for making it an applicable place of business, taking into account its relationship with other social insurance systems, and is to promptly take the necessary measures based on the results. machine translation, not official --- ## 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-20261013T074650-002, 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