# 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)（旧厚生年金基金の存続） — address `suppl-4251-63/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-4251-63/art-4 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-4251-63/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（旧厚生年金基金の存続） — Continuation of Former Employees' Pension Funds caption: machine translation, not official suppl-4251-63/art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-4251-63/art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-4251-63/art-4 **第一項** 旧厚生年金基金であってこの法律の施行の際現に存するものは、施行日以後も、改正前厚生年金保険法の規定により設立された厚生年金基金としてなお存続するものとする。 suppl-4251-63/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-4251-63/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-4251-63/art-4/par-1 A former employees' pension Fund that exists at the time of enforcement of this Act is to continue to exist, even on or after the Effective Date, as an employees' pension Fund established pursuant to the provisions of the pre-amendment Employees' Pension Insurance Act. machine translation, not official ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 厚生年金保険法 附則第三条第一項第十一号（定義） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-4251-63/art-3/par-1/item-11 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-4251-63/art-3/par-1/item-11 --- ## 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-20261013T074650-076, 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