# 厚生年金保険法 / Employees' Pension Insurance Act — 第七条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 7)

- 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: 第七条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 7)（通算老齢年金の支給の特例） — address `suppl-3401-104/art-7`
- 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-7
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3401-104/art-7
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### 第七条（通算老齢年金の支給の特例） — Special Provisions on Payment of Aggregated Old-Age Pensions
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>suppl-3401-104/art-7 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3401-104/art-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3401-104/art-7</sup>

**第一項**  この法律の公布の日において現に被保険者期間が一年以上であり、かつ、厚生年金保険法による老齢年金を受けるに必要な被保険者期間のいずれをも満たしていない被保険者であつて、同法第四十六条の三第一号イからニまでのいずれかに該当している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第四十六条の三の規定にかかわらず、同条の通算老齢年金を支給する。
<sup>suppl-3401-104/art-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3401-104/art-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3401-104/art-7/par-1</sup>
To an insured who, on the date of promulgation of this Act, actually has an insured period of one year or more and has not satisfied any of the insured periods necessary to receive an old-age pension under the Employees' Pension Insurance Act, and who falls under any of Article 46-3, item (i), (a) through (d) of that Act and is 65 years of age or older, the aggregated old-age pension under Article 46-3 of that Act is paid, notwithstanding the provisions of Article 46-3 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
