# 厚生年金保険法 / Employees' Pension Insurance Act — 第十六条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 16)

- 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: 第十六条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 16)（厚生年金保険の短時間労働者への適用に関する経過措置） — address `suppl-4241-62/art-16`
- Text in force since: 2026-10-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-4241-62/art-16
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-4241-62/art-16
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### 第十六条（厚生年金保険の短時間労働者への適用に関する経過措置） — Transitional Measures Concerning the Application of Employees' Pension Insurance to Part-Time Workers
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>suppl-4241-62/art-16 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-4241-62/art-16 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-4241-62/art-16</sup>

**第一項**  附則第一条第五号に掲げる規定の施行の日（以下「第五号施行日」という。）前に厚生年金保険の被保険者の資格を取得して、第五号施行日まで引き続き被保険者の資格を有する者については、厚生年金保険法第十二条（同条第五号に係る部分に限る。）の規定は、第五号施行日以降引き続き第五号施行日において使用されていた事業所に使用されている間は、適用しない。
<sup>suppl-4241-62/art-16/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-4241-62/art-16/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-4241-62/art-16/par-1</sup>
With regard to a person who has acquired status as an insured covered by employees' pension insurance before the day on which the provisions set forth in Article 1, item (v) of the Supplementary Provisions come into effect (hereinafter referred to as the "item (v) Effective Date") and has continuously held status as an insured until the item (v) Effective Date, the provisions of Article 12 of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act (limited to the part pertaining to item (v) of that Article) do not apply while the person continues, on or after the item (v) Effective Date, to be employed at the place of business at which the person was employed on the item (v) Effective Date.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- suppl-4241-62/art-16/par-1: 附則第一条第五号 → 厚生年金保険法 附則第一条第一項第五号 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 1, paragraph (1), item (v)), suppl-4241-62/art-1/par-1/item-5 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-4241-62/art-1/par-1/item-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-4241-62/art-1/par-1/item-5
- suppl-4241-62/art-16/par-1: 厚生年金保険法第十二条 → 厚生年金保険法 第十二条 (Article 12), art-12 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-12 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-12
- suppl-4241-62/art-16/par-1: 同条第五号 → 厚生年金保険法 第十二条第一項第五号 (Article 12, paragraph (1), item (v)), art-12/par-1/item-5 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-12/par-1/item-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-12/par-1/item-5

## Cited by

3 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五号（施行期日） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-4241-62/art-1/par-1/item-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-4241-62/art-1/par-1/item-5
- 厚生年金保険法 附則第十七条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-4241-62/art-17/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-4241-62/art-17/par-1
- 厚生年金保険法 附則第十七条の二第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-4241-62/art-17-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-4241-62/art-17-2/par-1

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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-20261013T074650-068, 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
