# 国民年金法施行令 / Order for Enforcement of the National Pension Act — 第十七条 (Article 17) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-pension-act-enforcement-order/art-17. Every law, and how to address a provision: https://japanlaw.org/llms.txt. The same laws as MCP tools (no sign-in): https://japanlaw.org/mcp. - 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: 第十七条 (Article 17)（監査） — address `art-17` - 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-17 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/334CO0000000184/art-17 - 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. --- ### 第十七条（監査） — Audit caption: machine translation, not official art-17 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-pension-act-enforcement-order/art-17 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334CO0000000184/art-17 **第一項** 財務大臣は、国の予算の執行の適正を期するため必要があると認めるときは、第十五条第一項の規定により共済払いの基礎年金の支払に関する事務を行う共済組合等を所管する大臣を長とする行政機関の職員に、当該共済組合等が取り扱う前条第一項の規定により交付された資金の受払の状況について実地監査を行わせることができる。この場合において、財務大臣は、当該実地監査を行わせる職員（当該行政機関に置かれた官職を指定することによりその官職にある者に当該実地監査を行わせる場合には、その官職）及びその行わせる実地監査の範囲について、あらかじめ、当該共済組合等を所管する大臣の同意を経なければならない。 art-17/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-pension-act-enforcement-order/art-17/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334CO0000000184/art-17/par-1 When the Minister of Finance finds it necessary to ensure the proper execution of the national budget, the Minister may have an employee of an administrative organ headed by the minister having jurisdiction over a mutual aid association, etc. that performs the administrative work relating to the payment of basic pensions paid by mutual aid associations pursuant to the provisions of Article 15, paragraph (1) conduct an on-site audit of the state of receipt and disbursement of the funds paid under the provisions of paragraph (1) of the preceding Article, which are handled by that mutual aid association, etc. In this case, the Minister of Finance must obtain in advance the consent of the minister having jurisdiction over that mutual aid association, etc. as to the employee who is to conduct the on-site audit (or, where, by designating a government post established in that administrative organ, the Minister has the person holding that post conduct the on-site audit, that post) and the scope of the on-site audit to be conducted. machine translation, not official **第二項** 財務大臣は、国の予算の執行の適正を期するため特に必要があると認めるときは、第十五条第一項の規定により共済払いの基礎年金の支払に関する事務を行う共済組合等に対し、当該共済組合等が取り扱う前条第一項の規定により交付された資金の受払の状況について実地監査を行うことができる。 art-17/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-pension-act-enforcement-order/art-17/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334CO0000000184/art-17/par-2 When the Minister of Finance finds it particularly necessary to ensure the proper execution of the national budget, the Minister may conduct an on-site audit of a mutual aid association, etc. that performs the administrative work relating to the payment of basic pensions paid by mutual aid associations pursuant to the provisions of Article 15, paragraph (1), with respect to the state of receipt and disbursement of the funds paid under the provisions of paragraph (1) of the preceding Article, which are handled by that mutual aid association, etc. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-17/par-1: 第十五条第一項 → 国民年金法施行令 第十五条第一項 (Article 15, paragraph (1)), art-15/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-pension-act-enforcement-order/art-15/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334CO0000000184/art-15/par-1 - art-17/par-1: 前条第一項 → 国民年金法施行令 第十六条第一項 (Article 16, paragraph (1)), art-16/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-pension-act-enforcement-order/art-16/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334CO0000000184/art-16/par-1 - art-17/par-2: 第十五条第一項 → 国民年金法施行令 第十五条第一項 (Article 15, paragraph (1)), art-15/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-pension-act-enforcement-order/art-15/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334CO0000000184/art-15/par-1 - art-17/par-2: 前条第一項 → 国民年金法施行令 第十六条第一項 (Article 16, paragraph (1)), art-16/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-pension-act-enforcement-order/art-16/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334CO0000000184/art-16/par-1 --- ## 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-20261104T155001-019, translated 2026-11-05 - claude-sonnet-5-5, corrected on review by claude-opus-5-5 — Machine translation corrected on review, batch national-pension-act-enforcement-order-20261104T155001-019, 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