# 厚生年金保険法 / Employees' Pension Insurance Act — 第十五条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 15) - 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: 第十五条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 15) — address `suppl-4121-18/art-15` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-4121-18/art-15 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-4121-18/art-15 - 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. --- ### 第十五条 suppl-4121-18/art-15 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-4121-18/art-15 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-4121-18/art-15 **第一項** 昭和七年四月二日以後に生まれた者であり、かつ、平成十四年三月三十一日において第四種被保険者であった者であって、同年四月一日において適用事業所に使用されるものは、同日に、第五条の規定による改正後の厚生年金保険法第九条の規定による被保険者の資格を取得し、当該第四種被保険者の資格を喪失する。 suppl-4121-18/art-15/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-4121-18/art-15/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-4121-18/art-15/par-1 A person who was born on or after April 2, 1932 and who was a class 4 insured person on March 31, 2002, and who, on April 1 of that year, is employed at an applicable place of business, acquires on that day status as an insured under Article 9 of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act as amended by Article 5, and loses status as that class 4 insured person. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-4121-18/art-15/par-1: 厚生年金保険法第九条 → 厚生年金保険法 第九条 (Article 9), art-9 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-9 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-9 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 厚生年金保険法 附則第十四条第一項（厚生年金保険の被保険者資格の取得及び喪失に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-4121-18/art-14/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-4121-18/art-14/par-1 - 厚生年金保険法 附則第十六条第一項（厚生年金保険の被保険者期間の計算の特例） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-4121-18/art-16/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-4121-18/art-16/par-1 --- ## 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-20261013T074650-054, 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