# 厚生年金保険法 / Employees' Pension Insurance Act — 第八条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 8) - 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: 第八条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 8) — address `suppl-3361-182/art-8` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3361-182/art-8 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3361-182/art-8 - 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. --- ### 第八条 suppl-3361-182/art-8 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3361-182/art-8 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3361-182/art-8 **第一項** 次の表の上欄に掲げる者で、昭和三十六年四月一日以後の被保険者期間（明治四十四年四月一日以前に生まれた者にあつては、昭和三十六年四月一日前の通算対象期間である被保険者期間と同日以後の被保険者期間とを合算した期間。以下この条において同じ。）がそれぞれ同表の下欄に規定する期間以上であり、かつ、老齢年金を受けるに必要な被保険者期間を満たしていないものが、六十歳に達した後に被保険者の資格を喪失したとき、又は被保険者の資格を喪失した後に被保険者となることなくして六十歳に達したときは、厚生年金保険法第四十六条の三の規定に該当するに至つたものとみなして、その者に、同条の通算老齢年金を支給する。 大正五年四月一日以前に生まれた者 十年 大正五年四月二日から大正六年四月一日までの間に生まれた者 十一年 大正六年四月二日から大正七年四月一日までの間に生まれた者 十二年 大正七年四月二日から大正八年四月一日までの間に生まれた者 十三年 大正八年四月二日から大正九年四月一日までの間に生まれた者 十四年 suppl-3361-182/art-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3361-182/art-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3361-182/art-8/par-1 A person set forth in the upper column of the following table who has an insured period on or after April 1, 1961 (for a person born on or before April 1, 1911, the period obtained by adding together the insured period that is a period subject to aggregation before April 1, 1961 and the insured period on or after that day; the same applies hereinafter in this Article) that is equal to or more than the respective period prescribed in the lower column of that table, and who has not satisfied the insured period required to receive an old-age pension, is deemed to have come to fall under the provisions of Article 46-3 of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act and is paid the aggregated old-age pension under that Article if the person forfeits status as an insured after reaching the age of 60, or if the person reaches the age of 60 without becoming an insured after forfeiting status as an insured. A person born on or before April 1, 1916 10 years A person born from April 2, 1916 through April 1, 1917 11 years A person born from April 2, 1917 through April 1, 1918 12 years A person born from April 2, 1918 through April 1, 1919 13 years A person born from April 2, 1919 through April 1, 1920 14 years machine translation, not official **第二項** 前項の表の上欄に掲げる被保険者で、昭和三十六年四月一日以後の被保険者期間がそれぞれ同表の下欄に規定する期間以上であり、かつ、老齢年金を受けるに必要な被保険者期間を満たしていない者が六十五歳に達したとき、又は同表の上欄に掲げる被保険者で、老齢年金を受けるに必要な被保険者期間を満たしていない六十五歳以上の者の同日以後の被保険者期間がそれぞれ同表の下欄に規定する期間に達したときも、前項と同様とする。 suppl-3361-182/art-8/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3361-182/art-8/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3361-182/art-8/par-2 The same as in paragraph (1) applies when an insured set forth in the upper column of the table in the preceding paragraph who has an insured period on or after April 1, 1961 that is equal to or more than the respective period prescribed in the lower column of that table, and who has not satisfied the insured period required to receive an old-age pension, reaches the age of 65, or when the insured period, on or after April 1, 1961, of a person aged 65 or older who is an insured set forth in the upper column of that table and has not satisfied the insured period required to receive an old-age pension reaches the respective period prescribed in the lower column of that table. machine translation, not official **第三項** 第一項の表の上欄に掲げる被保険者で、昭和三十六年四月一日以後の被保険者期間がそれぞれ同表の下欄に規定する期間以上であり、かつ、老齢年金を受けるに必要な被保険者期間を満たしていない者が、六十五歳に達するまでの間において、その者の標準報酬等級が第一級から第二十級までの等級に該当するに至つたとき、又は同表の上欄に掲げる者で、老齢年金を受けるに必要な被保険者期間を満たしていない六十五歳未満の被保険者であり、かつ、その者の標準報酬等級が第一級から第二十級までの等級であるものの同日以後の被保険者期間が、それぞれ同表の下欄に規定する期間に達したときも、同項と同様とする。 suppl-3361-182/art-8/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3361-182/art-8/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3361-182/art-8/par-3 The same as in paragraph (1) applies when an insured set forth in the upper column of the table in paragraph (1) who has an insured period on or after April 1, 1961 that is equal to or more than the respective period prescribed in the lower column of that table, and who has not satisfied the insured period required to receive an old-age pension, comes, before reaching the age of 65, to have a standardized remuneration grade falling under grade 1 through grade 20, or when the insured period, on or after April 1, 1961, of a person set forth in the upper column of that table who is an insured under the age of 65 who has not satisfied the insured period required to receive an old-age pension and whose standardized remuneration grade is grade 1 through grade 20 reaches the respective period prescribed in the lower column of that table. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-3361-182/art-8/par-1: この条 → 厚生年金保険法 附則第八条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 8), suppl-3361-182/art-8 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3361-182/art-8 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3361-182/art-8 - suppl-3361-182/art-8/par-2: 前項 → 厚生年金保険法 附則第八条第一項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 8, paragraph (1)), suppl-3361-182/art-8/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3361-182/art-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3361-182/art-8/par-1 - suppl-3361-182/art-8/par-3: 第一項 → 厚生年金保険法 附則第八条第一項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 8, paragraph (1)), suppl-3361-182/art-8/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3361-182/art-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3361-182/art-8/par-1 ## Cited by 4 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 厚生年金保険法 附則第八条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3361-182/art-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3361-182/art-8/par-1 - 厚生年金保険法 附則第八条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3361-182/art-8/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3361-182/art-8/par-2 - 厚生年金保険法 附則第八条第三項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3361-182/art-8/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3361-182/art-8/par-3 - 厚生年金保険法 附則第一条第二項第三号（施行期日等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3441-78/art-1/par-2/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3441-78/art-1/par-2/item-3 --- ## 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-20261013T074650-017, 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