# 厚生年金保険法 / Employees' Pension Insurance Act — 第三十七条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 37) - 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: 第三十七条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 37)（育児休業等期間中の被保険者及び加入員の特例に関する経過措置） — address `suppl-4161-104/art-37` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-4161-104/art-37 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-4161-104/art-37 - 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. --- ### 第三十七条（育児休業等期間中の被保険者及び加入員の特例に関する経過措置） — Transitional Measures Concerning Special Provisions for Insureds and Members during Childcare/Parental Leave caption: machine translation, not official suppl-4161-104/art-37 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-4161-104/art-37 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-4161-104/art-37 **第一項** 平成十七年四月一日前に第八条の規定による改正前の厚生年金保険法第八十一条の二又は第百三十九条第七項若しくは第八項の規定に基づく申出をした者については、なお従前の例による。 suppl-4161-104/art-37/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-4161-104/art-37/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-4161-104/art-37/par-1 The provisions then in force continue to govern a person who, before April 1, 2005, made a request under the provisions of Article 81-2 or Article 139, paragraph (7) or (8) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act prior to the amendment by Article 8. machine translation, not official **第二項** 平成十七年四月一日前に育児休業等を開始した者（平成十七年四月一日前に第八条の規定による改正前の厚生年金保険法第八十一条の二又は第百三十九条第七項若しくは第八項の規定に基づく申出をした者を除く。）については、その育児休業等を開始した日を平成十七年四月一日とみなして、第八条の規定による改正後の厚生年金保険法第八十一条の二、第百三十九条第七項若しくは第八項又は第百四十条第八項の規定を適用する。 suppl-4161-104/art-37/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-4161-104/art-37/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-4161-104/art-37/par-2 With regard to a person who started childcare/parental leave before April 1, 2005 (excluding a person who, before April 1, 2005, made a request under the provisions of Article 81-2 or Article 139, paragraph (7) or (8) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act prior to the amendment by Article 8), the provisions of Article 81-2, Article 139, paragraph (7) or (8), or Article 140, paragraph (8) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act as amended by Article 8 apply, deeming the day on which that person started that childcare/parental leave to be April 1, 2005. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-4161-104/art-37/par-2: 厚生年金保険法第八十一条の二 → 厚生年金保険法 第八十一条の二 (Article 81-2), art-81-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-81-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-81-2 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 厚生年金保険法 附則第一条第一項第一号（施行期日） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-4161-104/art-1/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-4161-104/art-1/par-1/item-1 - 厚生年金保険法 附則第三十四条第一項（育児休業等を終了した際の標準報酬月額の改定に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-4161-104/art-34/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-4161-104/art-34/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-20261013T074650-062, 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