# 厚生年金保険法 / Employees' Pension Insurance Act — 第十九条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 19) - 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: 第十九条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 19) — address `suppl-3551-82/art-19` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3551-82/art-19 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3551-82/art-19 - Every provision below carries its address and both URLs on the line under it. - Japanese text: e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁). English: as marked on each line below. Only the Japanese as published by the government has legal effect; the text below is a copy of it. Every English rendering below is a translation and says which kind: the Ministry of Justice's translation, or this site's machine translation, whose model and date the Sources list names. They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第十九条 suppl-3551-82/art-19 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3551-82/art-19 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3551-82/art-19 **第一項** 昭和五十五年六月一日において現に継続した十五年間における旧厚生年金保険法（昭和十六年法律第六十号）による第三種被保険者であつた期間に基づく被保険者期間又は継続した十五年間における同法による第三種被保険者であつた期間と厚生年金保険法による第三種被保険者であつた期間とに基づく被保険者期間が十六年以上である六十歳以上六十五歳未満の被保険者であつて、その者の標準報酬等級が第一級から第二十五級までの等級であるものに対しては、第一条の規定による改正後の同法第四十二条第一項の規定に該当しない場合においても、これに該当するものとみなして、同項の老齢年金を支給する。 suppl-3551-82/art-19/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3551-82/art-19/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3551-82/art-19/par-1 To an insured aged 60 or older and under 65 whose standardized remuneration grade is any of Grade 1 through Grade 25 and who, on June 1, 1980, actually has an insured period of 16 years or more based on the period of having been a class 3 insured person under the Former Employees' Pension Insurance Act (Act No. 60 of 1941) within a continuous period of 15 years, or an insured period of 16 years or more based on the period of having been a class 3 insured person under that Act and the period of having been a class 3 insured person under the Employees' Pension Insurance Act within a continuous period of 15 years, an old-age pension under Article 42, paragraph (1) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act as amended by the provisions of Article 1 is paid, deeming that person to fall under that paragraph even where the person does not. machine translation, not official ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 厚生年金保険法 附則第二十二条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3551-82/art-22/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3551-82/art-22/par-1 - 厚生年金保険法 附則第二十二条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3551-82/art-22/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3551-82/art-22/par-2 --- ## 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-20261013T074650-026, 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