# 厚生年金保険法 / Employees' Pension Insurance Act — 第二十一条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 21) - 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: 第二十一条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 21)（老齢厚生年金等の支給に関する経過措置） — address `suppl-4241-62/art-21` - 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-21 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-4241-62/art-21 - 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. --- ### 第二十一条（老齢厚生年金等の支給に関する経過措置） — Transitional Measures concerning the Payment of Employees' Old-Age Pension, etc. caption: machine translation, not official suppl-4241-62/art-21 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-4241-62/art-21 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-4241-62/art-21 **第一項** 施行日の前日において現に厚生年金保険法による老齢厚生年金その他老齢又は退職を支給事由とする年金たる給付又は年金たる保険給付であって政令で定めるものの受給権を有しない者であって、第三条の規定による改正後の厚生年金保険法第四十二条その他政令で定める規定による老齢厚生年金その他老齢を支給事由とする年金たる保険給付（以下この条において「老齢厚生年金等」という。）の支給要件に該当するものについては、施行日においてこれらの規定による老齢厚生年金等の支給要件に該当するに至ったものとみなして、施行日以後、その者に対し、これらの規定による老齢厚生年金等を支給する。この場合において、これらの規定の適用に関し必要な事項は、政令で定める。 suppl-4241-62/art-21/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-4241-62/art-21/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-4241-62/art-21/par-1 With regard to a person who, on the day preceding the Effective Date, does not actually hold the right to receive an employees' old-age pension under the Employees' Pension Insurance Act, or any other pension benefit or pension insurance benefit for which old age or retirement is the ground for payment, as specified by Cabinet Order, and who satisfies the requirements for payment of an employees' old-age pension or other pension insurance benefit for which old age is the ground for payment (hereinafter in this Article referred to as "employees' old-age pension, etc.") under Article 42 of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act as amended by the provisions of Article 3 or other provisions specified by Cabinet Order, the employees' old-age pension, etc. under those provisions is paid to that person on or after the Effective Date, by deeming that the person has come to satisfy the requirements for payment of the employees' old-age pension, etc. under those provisions on the Effective Date. In this case, matters necessary for the application of those provisions are specified by Cabinet Order. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-4241-62/art-21/par-1: 厚生年金保険法第四十二条 → 厚生年金保険法 第四十二条 (Article 42), art-42 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-42 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-42 - suppl-4241-62/art-21/par-1: この条 → 厚生年金保険法 附則第二十一条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 21), suppl-4241-62/art-21 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-4241-62/art-21 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-4241-62/art-21 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 厚生年金保険法 附則第二十一条第一項（老齢厚生年金等の支給に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-4241-62/art-21/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-4241-62/art-21/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-20261013T074650-070, 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