# 国民年金法施行令 / Order for Enforcement of the National Pension Act — 第四条 (Article 4) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-pension-act-enforcement-order/art-4. 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: 第四条 (Article 4)（被扶養配偶者の認定） — address `art-4` - 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-4 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/334CO0000000184/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（被扶養配偶者の認定） — Determination of Dependent Spouse caption: machine translation, not official art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-pension-act-enforcement-order/art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334CO0000000184/art-4 **第一項** 法第七条第二項に規定する主として第二号被保険者の収入により生計を維持することの認定は、健康保険法（大正十一年法律第七十号）、国家公務員共済組合法（昭和三十三年法律第百二十八号）、地方公務員等共済組合法及び私立学校教職員共済法における被扶養者の認定の取扱いを勘案して日本年金機構（以下「機構」という。）が行う。 art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-pension-act-enforcement-order/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334CO0000000184/art-4/par-1 The determination that a person maintains their livelihood mainly through the income of a category 2 insured person, as prescribed in Article 7, paragraph (2) of the Act, is made by the Japan Pension Service (hereinafter referred to as the "Japan Pension Service"), taking into account the handling of the determination of dependents under the Health Insurance Act (Act No. 70 of 1922), the National Public Officers Mutual Aid Association Act (Act No. 128 of 1958), the Local Public Officers, etc. Mutual Aid Association Act and the Private School Personnel Mutual Aid Association Act. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-4/par-1: 法第七条第二項 → 国民年金法 第七条第二項 (Article 7, paragraph (2)), art-7/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-pension-act/art-7/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334AC0000000141/art-7/par-2 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 国民年金法施行令 附則第十一条第一項（国民年金法施行令の一部改正に伴う経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-pension-act-enforcement-order/suppl-3422-258/art-11/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334CO0000000184/suppl-3422-258/art-11/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-20261104T155001-002, 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