# 厚生年金保険法 / Employees' Pension Insurance Act — 第五十三条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 53)

- 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: 第五十三条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 53) — address `suppl-3601-34/art-53`
- Text in force since: 2026-10-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3601-34/art-53
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3601-34/art-53
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### 第五十三条
<sup>suppl-3601-34/art-53 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3601-34/art-53 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3601-34/art-53</sup>

**第一項**  附則第四十九条の規定により旧船員保険法による標準報酬月額を厚生年金保険法による標準報酬月額とみなす場合において、昭和四十四年十一月一日前に船員保険の被保険者であつた者であつて施行日以後に厚生年金保険法による保険給付を受ける権利を有するに至つたものに支給する当該保険給付につき平均標準報酬月額を計算する場合には、その計算の基礎となる標準報酬月額に一万二千円に満たないものがあるときは、これを一万二千円とする。
<sup>suppl-3601-34/art-53/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3601-34/art-53/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3601-34/art-53/par-1</sup>
In the case where the standardized monthly amount of remuneration under the former Mariners Insurance Act is deemed to be the standardized monthly amount of remuneration under the Employees' Pension Insurance Act pursuant to the provisions of Article 49 of the Supplementary Provisions, when calculating the average standardized monthly amount of remuneration for the insurance benefits to be paid to a person who was an insured under Mariners Insurance before November 1, 1969 and who has come to have the right to receive insurance benefits under the Employees' Pension Insurance Act on or after the Effective Date, if any of the standardized monthly amounts of remuneration forming the basis of the calculation is less than 12,000 yen, it is deemed to be 12,000 yen.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- suppl-3601-34/art-53/par-1: 附則第四十九条 → 厚生年金保険法 附則第四十九条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 49), suppl-3601-34/art-49 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3601-34/art-49 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3601-34/art-49

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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-20261013T074650-031, 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
