# 厚生年金保険法 / Employees' Pension Insurance Act — 第四条の二 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 4-2) - 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: 第四条の二 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 4-2)（被保険者の資格の特例） — address `suppl-3291-115/art-4-2` - 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-4-2 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3291-115/art-4-2 - 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. --- ### 第四条の二（被保険者の資格の特例） — Special Provisions on Status as an Insured caption: machine translation, not official suppl-3291-115/art-4-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3291-115/art-4-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3291-115/art-4-2 **第一項** 国家公務員共済組合法第七十二条第二項の規定により同法による長期給付に関する規定の適用を受けない同項に規定する職員は、第二号厚生年金被保険者としない。 suppl-3291-115/art-4-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3291-115/art-4-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3291-115/art-4-2/par-1 An employee prescribed in Article 72, paragraph (2) of the National Public Officers Mutual Aid Association Act to whom the provisions on long-term benefits under that Act do not apply pursuant to the provisions of that paragraph is not to be a category II EPI insured. machine translation, not official **第二項** 地方公務員等共済組合法第七十四条第二項の規定により同法による長期給付に関する規定の適用を受けない同項に規定する職員は、第三号厚生年金被保険者としない。 suppl-3291-115/art-4-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3291-115/art-4-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3291-115/art-4-2/par-2 An employee prescribed in Article 74, paragraph (2) of the Local Public Officers, etc. Mutual Aid Association Act to whom the provisions on long-term benefits under that Act do not apply pursuant to the provisions of that paragraph is not to be a category III EPI insured. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-3291-115/art-4-2/par-1: 国家公務員共済組合法第七十二条第二項 → e-Gov law 333AC0000000128, 第七十二条第二項 (Article 72, paragraph (2)), art-72/par-2 — not held in this collection - suppl-3291-115/art-4-2/par-2: 地方公務員等共済組合法第七十四条第二項 → e-Gov law 337AC0000000152, 第七十四条第二項 (Article 74, paragraph (2)), art-74/par-2 — not held in this collection --- ## 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-20261013T074650-003, 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