# 厚生年金保険法 / Employees' Pension Insurance Act — 第二十条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 20)

- 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: 第二十条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 20)（時効に関する経過措置） — address `suppl-3401-104/art-20`
- Text in force since: 2026-10-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3401-104/art-20
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3401-104/art-20
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### 第二十条（時効に関する経過措置） — Transitional Measures Concerning Prescription
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>suppl-3401-104/art-20 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3401-104/art-20 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3401-104/art-20</sup>

**第一項**  この法律による改正後の厚生年金保険法第九十二条第二項の規定は、この法律の公布の際現に年金たる保険給付の受給権を有する者の当該保険給付がこの法律の公布前にその全額につき支給を停止されていた間についても、適用する。
<sup>suppl-3401-104/art-20/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3401-104/art-20/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3401-104/art-20/par-1</sup>
The provisions of Article 92, paragraph (2) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act as amended by this Act also apply to the period, before the promulgation of this Act, during which payment of the whole of the pension insurance benefits of a person who, at the time of the promulgation of this Act, actually has the right to receive pension insurance benefits was suspended.
<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-20261013T074650-020, 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