# 厚生年金保険法 / Employees' Pension Insurance Act — 第四条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 4) - 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: 第四条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 4)（基金又は連合会の規約の変更） — address `suppl-3631-61/art-4` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3631-61/art-4 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3631-61/art-4 - 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. --- ### 第四条（基金又は連合会の規約の変更） — Amendment of the Articles of Association of a Fund or the Pension Fund Association caption: machine translation, not official suppl-3631-61/art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3631-61/art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3631-61/art-4 **第一項** 基金は、一部施行日までに、その規約をこの法律による改正後の厚生年金保険法（以下「新法」という。）第百四十七条第四項の規定に適合するように変更し、当該規約の変更につき厚生大臣の認可を受けなければならない。 suppl-3631-61/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3631-61/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3631-61/art-4/par-1 A Fund must, by the Partial Effective Date, amend its articles of Association so as to conform to the provisions of Article 147, paragraph (4) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act after the amendment by this Act (hereinafter referred to as the "New Act"), and obtain the authorization of the Minister of Health and Welfare for the amendment of those articles of Association. machine translation, not official **第二項** 企業年金連合会は、一部施行日までに、その規約を新法第百五十三条第一項の規定に適合するように変更し、当該規約の変更につき厚生大臣の認可を受けなければならない。 suppl-3631-61/art-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3631-61/art-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3631-61/art-4/par-2 The Pension Fund Association must, by the Partial Effective Date, amend its articles of Association so as to conform to the provisions of Article 153, paragraph (1) of the New Act, and obtain the authorization of the Minister of Health and Welfare for the amendment of those articles of Association. machine translation, not official **第三項** 前二項の場合において、認可の効力は、一部施行日から生ずるものとする。 suppl-3631-61/art-4/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3631-61/art-4/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3631-61/art-4/par-3 In the cases referred to in the preceding two paragraphs, the authorization is to take effect from the Partial Effective Date. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-3631-61/art-4/par-3: 前二項 → 厚生年金保険法 附則第四条第一項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 4, paragraph (1)), suppl-3631-61/art-4/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3631-61/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3631-61/art-4/par-1 - suppl-3631-61/art-4/par-3: 前二項 → 厚生年金保険法 附則第四条第二項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 4, paragraph (2)), suppl-3631-61/art-4/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3631-61/art-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3631-61/art-4/par-2 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 厚生年金保険法 附則第四条第三項（基金又は連合会の規約の変更） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3631-61/art-4/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3631-61/art-4/par-3 --- ## 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-20261013T074650-039, 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