# 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)（特例老齢年金の支給に関する経過措置） — address `suppl-3401-104/art-8`
- Text in force since: 2026-10-01
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- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3401-104/art-8
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### 第八条（特例老齢年金の支給に関する経過措置） — Transitional Measures Concerning Payment of Special Old-Age Pensions
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>suppl-3401-104/art-8 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3401-104/art-8 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3401-104/art-8</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を満たしていない者が、次の各号の一に該当する場合において、その者が、通算老齢年金の受給権を有しないときは、その者にこの法律による改正後の同法附則第二十八条の三第一項の特例老齢年金を支給する。
<sup>suppl-3401-104/art-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3401-104/art-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3401-104/art-8/par-1</sup>
In the case where a person who, on the date of promulgation of this Act, actually has an insured period of one year or more and has not satisfied the insured period necessary to receive an old-age pension under the Employees' Pension Insurance Act falls under any one of the following items, if that person does not have the right to receive an aggregated old-age pension, the special old-age pension under Article 28-3, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of that Act as amended by this Act is paid to that person:
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  **一**  この法律による改正後の厚生年金保険法附則第二十八条の三第一項第一号イ又はロのいずれかに該当している被保険者でない者が、六十歳以上であるとき。
  <sup>suppl-3401-104/art-8/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3401-104/art-8/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3401-104/art-8/par-1/item-1</sup>
  when a person who is not an insured and who falls under either (a) or (b) of Article 28-3, paragraph (1), item (i) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act as amended by this Act is 60 years of age or older; or
  <sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

  **二**  この法律による改正後の厚生年金保険法附則第二十八条の三第一項第一号イ又はロのいずれかに該当している被保険者が、六十五歳以上であるとき。
  <sup>suppl-3401-104/art-8/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3401-104/art-8/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3401-104/art-8/par-1/item-2</sup>
  when an insured who falls under either (a) or (b) of Article 28-3, paragraph (1), item (i) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act as amended by this Act is 65 years of age or older.
  <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
