# 厚生年金保険法 / Employees' Pension Insurance Act — 附　則 (Supplementary Provisions) - 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: 附　則 (Supplementary Provisions) — address `suppl-5031-37` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-5031-37 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-5031-37 - 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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ## 附　則 令和三年五月一九日法律第三七号 suppl-5031-37 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-5031-37 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-5031-37 ### 第一条（施行期日） — Effective Date caption: machine translation, not official suppl-5031-37/art-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-5031-37/art-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-5031-37/art-1 **第一項** この法律は、令和三年九月一日から施行する。ただし、次の各号に掲げる規定は、当該各号に定める日から施行する。 suppl-5031-37/art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-5031-37/art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-5031-37/art-1/par-1 This Act comes into effect on September 1, 2021; provided, however, that the provisions set forth in the following items come into effect on the dates specified in those items: machine translation, not official **一** 第二十七条（住民基本台帳法別表第一から別表第五までの改正規定に限る。）、第四十五条、第四十七条及び第五十五条（行政手続における特定の個人を識別するための番号の利用等に関する法律別表第一及び別表第二の改正規定（同表の二十七の項の改正規定を除く。）に限る。）並びに附則第八条第一項、第五十九条から第六十三条まで、第六十七条及び第七十一条から第七十三条までの規定　公布の日 suppl-5031-37/art-1/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-5031-37/art-1/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-5031-37/art-1/par-1/item-1 the provisions of Article 27 (limited to the provision amending Appended Tables 1 through 5 of the Residential Basic Book Act), Article 45, Article 47 and Article 55 (limited to the provision amending Appended Table 1 and Appended Table 2 of the Act on the Use of Numbers to Identify a Specific Individual in Administrative Procedures (excluding the provision amending row 27 of that Table)), and the provisions of Article 8, paragraph (1), Articles 59 through 63, Article 67 and Articles 71 through 73 of the Supplementary Provisions: the date of promulgation; machine translation, not official ### 第七十一条（罰則に関する経過措置） — Transitional Measures Concerning Penal Provisions caption: machine translation, not official suppl-5031-37/art-71 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-5031-37/art-71 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-5031-37/art-71 **第一項** この法律（附則第一条各号に掲げる規定にあっては、当該規定。以下この条において同じ。）の施行前にした行為及びこの附則の規定によりなお従前の例によることとされる場合におけるこの法律の施行後にした行為に対する罰則の適用については、なお従前の例による。 suppl-5031-37/art-71/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-5031-37/art-71/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-5031-37/art-71/par-1 With regard to the application of penal provisions to acts committed before this Act (or, for the provisions set forth in the items of Article 1 of the Supplementary Provisions, those provisions; the same applies hereinafter in this Article) comes into effect and to acts committed after this Act comes into effect in the cases where the provisions then in force continue to govern pursuant to the provisions of these Supplementary Provisions, the provisions then in force continue to govern. machine translation, not official ### 第七十二条（政令への委任） — Delegation to Cabinet Order caption: machine translation, not official suppl-5031-37/art-72 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-5031-37/art-72 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-5031-37/art-72 **第一項** この附則に定めるもののほか、この法律の施行に関し必要な経過措置（罰則に関する経過措置を含む。）は、政令で定める。 suppl-5031-37/art-72/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-5031-37/art-72/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-5031-37/art-72/par-1 Beyond what is provided for in these Supplementary Provisions, the transitional measures necessary in connection with the enforcement of this Act (including transitional measures concerning penal provisions) are specified by Cabinet Order. machine translation, not official ### 第七十三条（検討） — Review caption: machine translation, not official suppl-5031-37/art-73 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-5031-37/art-73 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-5031-37/art-73 **第一項** 政府は、行政機関等に係る申請、届出、処分の通知その他の手続において、個人の氏名を平仮名又は片仮名で表記したものを利用して当該個人を識別できるようにするため、個人の氏名を平仮名又は片仮名で表記したものを戸籍の記載事項とすることを含め、この法律の公布後一年以内を目途としてその具体的な方策について検討を加え、その結果に基づいて必要な措置を講ずるものとする。 suppl-5031-37/art-73/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-5031-37/art-73/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-5031-37/art-73/par-1 In order to make it possible to identify an individual by using the individual's name written in hiragana or katakana in applications, notifications, notices of dispositions, and other procedures relating to administrative organs, etc., the Government is to consider specific measures for this, including making an individual's name written in hiragana or katakana a matter to be entered in the family register, aiming to do so within one year after the promulgation of this Act, and is to take necessary measures based on the results. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-5031-37/art-1/par-1/item-1: 第七十一条から第七十三条まで → 厚生年金保険法 附則第七十一条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 71), suppl-5031-37/art-71 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-5031-37/art-71 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-5031-37/art-71 - suppl-5031-37/art-1/par-1/item-1: 第七十一条から第七十三条まで → 厚生年金保険法 附則第七十二条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 72), suppl-5031-37/art-72 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-5031-37/art-72 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-5031-37/art-72 - suppl-5031-37/art-1/par-1/item-1: 第七十一条から第七十三条まで → 厚生年金保険法 附則第七十三条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 73), suppl-5031-37/art-73 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-5031-37/art-73 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-5031-37/art-73 - suppl-5031-37/art-71/par-1: 附則第一条 → 厚生年金保険法 附則第一条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 1), suppl-5031-37/art-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-5031-37/art-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-5031-37/art-1 - suppl-5031-37/art-71/par-1: この条 → 厚生年金保険法 附則第七十一条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 71), suppl-5031-37/art-71 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-5031-37/art-71 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-5031-37/art-71 ## 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-5031-37/art-1/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-5031-37/art-1/par-1/item-1 - 厚生年金保険法 附則第七十一条第一項（罰則に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-5031-37/art-71/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-5031-37/art-71/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-20261013T074650-099, 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