# 厚生年金保険法 / Employees' Pension Insurance Act — 第三条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 3) - 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: 第三条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 3)（社会保障審議会への諮問） — address `suppl-4261-64/art-3` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-4261-64/art-3 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-4261-64/art-3 - 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. --- ### 第三条（社会保障審議会への諮問） — Consultation with the Social Security Council caption: machine translation, not official suppl-4261-64/art-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-4261-64/art-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-4261-64/art-3 **第一項** 厚生労働大臣は、第一条の規定（附則第一条第三号に掲げる改正規定に限る。）による改正後の国民年金法（次条及び附則第五条において「第三号改正後国民年金法」という。）第十四条の三第一項又は第三条の規定（同号に掲げる改正規定に限る。）による改正後の厚生年金保険法（以下「第三号改正後厚生年金保険法」という。）第二十八条の三第一項の方針を定めようとするときは、同号に掲げる規定の施行の日前においても、社会保障審議会に諮問することができる。 suppl-4261-64/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-4261-64/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-4261-64/art-3/par-1 When the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare intends to establish the policy set forth in Article 14-3, paragraph (1) of the National Pension Act after the amendment under the provisions of Article 1 (limited to the provisions amending as set forth in Article 1, item (iii) of the Supplementary Provisions) (referred to as the "National Pension Act as Amended by the item (iii) Provisions" in the following Article and Article 5 of the Supplementary Provisions), or the policy set forth in Article 28-3, paragraph (1) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act after the amendment under the provisions of Article 3 (limited to the provisions amending as set forth in that item) (hereinafter referred to as the "Employees' Pension Insurance Act as Amended by the item (iii) Provisions"), the Minister may consult the Social Security Council even before the date of enforcement of the provisions set forth in that item. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-4261-64/art-3/par-1: 附則第一条第三号 → 厚生年金保険法 附則第一条第一項第三号 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 1, paragraph (1), item (iii)), suppl-4261-64/art-1/par-1/item-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-4261-64/art-1/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-4261-64/art-1/par-1/item-3 - suppl-4261-64/art-3/par-1: 第十四条の三第一項 → 国民年金法 第十四条の三第一項 (Article 14-3, paragraph (1)), art-14-3/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-pension-act/art-14-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334AC0000000141/art-14-3/par-1 - suppl-4261-64/art-3/par-1: 第二十八条の三第一項 → 厚生年金保険法 第二十八条の三第一項 (Article 28-3, paragraph (1)), art-28-3/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-28-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-28-3/par-1 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 厚生年金保険法 附則第一条第一項第二号（施行期日） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-4261-64/art-1/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-4261-64/art-1/par-1/item-2 --- ## 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-20261013T074650-094, 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