# 国民年金法施行令 / Order for Enforcement of the National Pension Act — 第十二条 (Article 12)

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- Law: 国民年金法施行令 (Order for Enforcement of the National Pension Act), 昭和三十四年政令第百八十四号
- English title "Order for Enforcement of the National Pension Act": claude-opus-5-5
- Kind: CabinetOrder — 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: 第十二条 (Article 12)（支給の繰上げの際に減ずる額） — address `art-12`
- Text in force since: 2026-10-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-pension-act-enforcement-order/art-12
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/334CO0000000184/art-12
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### 第十二条（支給の繰上げの際に減ずる額） — Amount to Be Reduced upon Advance Payment of the Pension
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>art-12 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-pension-act-enforcement-order/art-12 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334CO0000000184/art-12</sup>

**第一項**  法附則第九条の二第四項（法附則第九条の三第四項において準用する場合を含む。）に規定する政令で定める額は、法第二十七条（法附則第九条の三第二項においてその例による場合を含む。）の規定（昭和六十年改正法附則第十七条の規定が適用される場合にあつては、同条第一項の規定）によつて計算した額に減額率（千分の四に当該年金の支給の繰上げを請求した日の属する月から六十五歳に達する日の属する月の前月までの月数を乗じて得た率をいう。次項において同じ。）を乗じて得た額とする。
<sup>art-12/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-pension-act-enforcement-order/art-12/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334CO0000000184/art-12/par-1</sup>
The amount specified by Cabinet Order prescribed in Article 9-2, paragraph (4) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 9-3, paragraph (4) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act) is the amount obtained by multiplying the amount calculated under the provisions of Article 27 of the Act (including where it is followed under Article 9-3, paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act) (where the provisions of Article 17 of the Supplementary Provisions of the 1985 Amendment Act apply, the provisions of paragraph (1) of that Article) by the reduction rate (meaning the rate obtained by multiplying 4/1000 by the number of months from the month that contains the day on which the advance payment of that pension was requested to the month preceding the month that contains the day on which the person reaches 65 years of age; the same applies in the following paragraph).
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

**第二項**  法附則第九条の二第六項において準用する同条第四項に規定する政令で定める額は、法第四十四条の規定によつて計算した額に減額率を乗じて得た額とする。
<sup>art-12/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-pension-act-enforcement-order/art-12/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334CO0000000184/art-12/par-2</sup>
The amount specified by Cabinet Order prescribed in Article 9-2, paragraph (4) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act, as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to paragraph (6) of that Article, is the amount obtained by multiplying the amount calculated under the provisions of Article 44 of the Act by the reduction rate.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- art-12/par-1: 法附則第九条の二第四項 → 国民年金法 附則第九条の二第四項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 9-2, paragraph (4)), suppl-3341-141/art-9-2/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-pension-act/suppl-3341-141/art-9-2/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334AC0000000141/suppl-3341-141/art-9-2/par-4
- art-12/par-1: 法附則第九条の三第四項 → 国民年金法 附則第九条の三第四項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 9-3, paragraph (4)), suppl-3341-141/art-9-3/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-pension-act/suppl-3341-141/art-9-3/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334AC0000000141/suppl-3341-141/art-9-3/par-4
- art-12/par-1: 法第二十七条 → 国民年金法 第二十七条 (Article 27), art-27 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-pension-act/art-27 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334AC0000000141/art-27
- art-12/par-1: 法附則第九条の三第二項 → 国民年金法 附則第九条の三第二項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 9-3, paragraph (2)), suppl-3341-141/art-9-3/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-pension-act/suppl-3341-141/art-9-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334AC0000000141/suppl-3341-141/art-9-3/par-2
- art-12/par-1: 次項 → 国民年金法施行令 第十二条第二項 (Article 12, paragraph (2)), art-12/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-pension-act-enforcement-order/art-12/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334CO0000000184/art-12/par-2
- art-12/par-2: 法附則第九条の二第六項 → 国民年金法 附則第九条の二第六項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 9-2, paragraph (6)), suppl-3341-141/art-9-2/par-6 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-pension-act/suppl-3341-141/art-9-2/par-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334AC0000000141/suppl-3341-141/art-9-2/par-6
- art-12/par-2: 同条第四項 → 国民年金法 附則第九条の二第四項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 9-2, paragraph (4)), suppl-3341-141/art-9-2/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-pension-act/suppl-3341-141/art-9-2/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334AC0000000141/suppl-3341-141/art-9-2/par-4
- art-12/par-2: 法第四十四条 → 国民年金法 第四十四条 (Article 44), art-44 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-pension-act/art-44 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334AC0000000141/art-44

## Cited by

3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction.

- 国民年金法施行令 第十二条第一項（支給の繰上げの際に減ずる額） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-pension-act-enforcement-order/art-12/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334CO0000000184/art-12/par-1
- 国民年金法施行令 附則第三条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-pension-act-enforcement-order/suppl-3612-53/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334CO0000000184/suppl-3612-53/art-3/par-1
- 国民年金法施行令 附則第二条第二項（老齢基礎年金の支給の繰下げの際に加算する額等に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-pension-act-enforcement-order/suppl-5032-229/art-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334CO0000000184/suppl-5032-229/art-2/par-2

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## Sources

- claude-opus-5-5 — English title of a law in this collection, written for this site, written 2026-11-05
- e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 国民年金法施行令 — the text in force from 2026-10-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/334CO0000000184/20261001_508CO0000000226), retrieved 2026-11-04
- claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch national-pension-act-enforcement-order-20261104T155001-013, translated 2026-11-05
- This site's parser, version 224 — 国民年金法施行令 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-04
