# 厚生年金保険法 / Employees' Pension Insurance Act — 第三条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 3)

- 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: 第三条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 3) — address `suppl-3511-63/art-3`
- Text in force since: 2026-10-01
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### 第三条
<sup>suppl-3511-63/art-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3511-63/art-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3511-63/art-3</sup>

**第一項**  昭和五十一年八月一日前に厚生年金保険の被保険者の資格を取得して、同日まで引き続き被保険者の資格を有する者（第四種被保険者の資格を有する者及び同月から標準報酬を改定されるべき者を除く。）のうち、同年七月の標準報酬月額が二万八千円以下である者又は二十万円である者（当該標準報酬月額の基礎となつた報酬月額が二十一万円未満である者を除く。）の標準報酬は、当該標準報酬月額の基礎となつた報酬月額（その者が健康保険の被保険者であるときは、その者の同月における健康保険法（大正十一年法律第七十号）による標準報酬の基礎となつた報酬月額）を第一条の規定による改正後の厚生年金保険法第二十条の規定による標準報酬の基礎となる報酬月額とみなして、都道府県知事が改定する。
<sup>suppl-3511-63/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3511-63/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3511-63/art-3/par-1</sup>
With regard to the standardized remuneration of a person who acquired the status of an insured covered by employees' pension insurance before August 1, 1976 and has continuously held the status of an insured up to that day (excluding a person who holds the status of a class 4 insured person and a person whose standardized remuneration is to be revised from that month), among those persons whose standardized monthly amount of remuneration in July of that year is 28,000 yen or less, or 200,000 yen (excluding a person whose monthly amount of remuneration that was the basis of that standardized monthly amount of remuneration is less than 210,000 yen), the prefectural governor revises the standardized remuneration by deeming the monthly amount of remuneration that was the basis of that standardized monthly amount of remuneration (or, where the person is an insured covered by health insurance, the monthly amount of remuneration that was the basis of the person's standardized remuneration for that month under the Health Insurance Act (Act No. 70 of 1922)) to be the monthly amount of remuneration that is the basis of the standardized remuneration under the provisions of Article 20 of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act as amended by the provisions of Article 1.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

**第二項**  前項の規定により改定された標準報酬は、昭和五十一年八月及び九月の標準報酬とする。
<sup>suppl-3511-63/art-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3511-63/art-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3511-63/art-3/par-2</sup>
The standardized remuneration revised pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph is the standardized remuneration for August and September 1976.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

**第三項**  標準報酬月額が三万円未満である厚生年金保険の第四種被保険者の昭和五十一年八月以後の標準報酬月額は、厚生年金保険法第二十六条の規定にかかわらず、三万円とする。
<sup>suppl-3511-63/art-3/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3511-63/art-3/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3511-63/art-3/par-3</sup>
Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 26 of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act, the standardized monthly amount of remuneration on or after August 1976 of a class 4 insured person under employees' pension insurance whose standardized monthly amount of remuneration is less than 30,000 yen is 30,000 yen.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- suppl-3511-63/art-3/par-2: 前項 → 厚生年金保険法 附則第三条第一項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 3, paragraph (1)), suppl-3511-63/art-3/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3511-63/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3511-63/art-3/par-1

## Cited by

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

- 厚生年金保険法 附則第三条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3511-63/art-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3511-63/art-3/par-2

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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-20261013T074650-024, 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
