# 厚生年金保険法 / Employees' Pension Insurance Act — 第二十一条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 21)

- 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
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- Provision: 第二十一条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 21)（名称の使用制限に関する経過措置） — address `suppl-3401-104/art-21`
- 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-21
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3401-104/art-21
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### 第二十一条（名称の使用制限に関する経過措置） — Transitional Measures Concerning Restrictions on the Use of Names
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>suppl-3401-104/art-21 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3401-104/art-21 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3401-104/art-21</sup>

**第一項**  附則第一条ただし書に掲げる規定の施行の日において現に厚生年金基金又は厚生年金基金連合会という名称を使用している者については、この法律による改正後の厚生年金保険法第百九条第二項及び第百五十一条第二項の規定は、同日以後六月間は、適用しない。
<sup>suppl-3401-104/art-21/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3401-104/art-21/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3401-104/art-21/par-1</sup>
With regard to a person who is actually using the name employees' pension Fund or employees' pension Fund federation on the day of enforcement of the provisions listed in the proviso of Article 1 of the Supplementary Provisions, the provisions of Article 109, paragraph (2) and Article 151, paragraph (2) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act as amended by this Act do not apply for six months from that day.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- suppl-3401-104/art-21/par-1: 附則第一条 → 厚生年金保険法 附則第一条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 1), suppl-3401-104/art-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3401-104/art-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3401-104/art-1

## Cited by

1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction.

- 厚生年金保険法 附則第一条第一項（施行期日等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3401-104/art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3401-104/art-1/par-1

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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
