# 厚生年金保険法 / Employees' Pension Insurance Act — 第六条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 6)

- 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: 第六条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 6)（老齢年金の支給の特例） — address `suppl-3401-104/art-6`
- 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-6
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3401-104/art-6
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### 第六条（老齢年金の支給の特例） — Special Provisions on Payment of Old-Age Pensions
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>suppl-3401-104/art-6 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3401-104/art-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3401-104/art-6</sup>

**第一項**  この法律の公布の日において現に厚生年金保険法第四十二条第一項第一号から第三号までのいずれかに規定する被保険者期間を満たしている被保険者であつて、六十五歳以上であるものに対しては、この法律による改正後の同法同条同項の規定にかかわらず、同項の老齢年金を支給する。
<sup>suppl-3401-104/art-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3401-104/art-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3401-104/art-6/par-1</sup>
To an insured who, on the date of promulgation of this Act, actually satisfies the insured period prescribed in any of Article 42, paragraph (1), items (i) through (iii) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act and is 65 years of age or older, the old-age pension under that paragraph is paid, notwithstanding the provisions of Article 42, paragraph (1) of that Act as amended by this Act.
<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-20261013T074650-019, 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
