# 国民年金法 / National Pension Act — 第百十六条 (Article 116) - Law: 国民年金法 (National Pension Act), 昭和三十四年法律第百四十一号 - English title "National Pension Act": Ministry of Justice translation database, which lists the title - 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: 第百十六条 (Article 116)（組織） — address `art-116` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-pension-act/art-116 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/334AC0000000141/art-116 - 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. --- ### 第百十六条（組織） — (Organization) caption: machine translation, not official art-116 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-pension-act/art-116 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334AC0000000141/art-116 **第一項** 地域型基金は、第一号被保険者（第八十九条第一項、第九十条第一項又は第九十条の三第一項の規定により保険料を納付することを要しないものとされている者、第九十条の二第一項から第三項までの規定によりその一部の額につき保険料を納付することを要しないものとされている者及び農業者年金の被保険者を除く。次項及び第百二十七条第一項において同じ。）であつて、基金の地区内に住所を有する者をもつて組織する。 art-116/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-pension-act/art-116/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334AC0000000141/art-116/par-1 A regional fund is organized by category 1 insured persons (excluding a person who is not required to pay premiums under Article 89, paragraph (1), Article 90, paragraph (1), or Article 90-3, paragraph (1), a person who is not required to pay premiums for part of the amount under Article 90-2, paragraphs (1) through (3), and an insured person of the farmers' pension; the same applies in the following paragraph and Article 127, paragraph (1)) who have their domicile within the district of the National Pension Fund. machine translation, not official **第二項** 職能型基金は、第一号被保険者であつて、基金の地区内において同種の事業又は業務に従事する者をもつて組織する。 art-116/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-pension-act/art-116/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334AC0000000141/art-116/par-2 An occupation-based fund is organized by category 1 insured persons who are engaged in the same kind of business or work within the district of the National Pension Fund. machine translation, not official **第三項** 前二項に規定する者は、加入員たる資格を有する者という。 art-116/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-pension-act/art-116/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334AC0000000141/art-116/par-3 A person prescribed in the preceding two paragraphs is referred to as a person having the status as a member. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-116/par-1: 第八十九条第一項 → 国民年金法 第八十九条第一項 (Article 89, paragraph (1)), art-89/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-pension-act/art-89/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334AC0000000141/art-89/par-1 - art-116/par-1: 第九十条第一項 → 国民年金法 第九十条第一項 (Article 90, paragraph (1)), art-90/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-pension-act/art-90/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334AC0000000141/art-90/par-1 - art-116/par-1: 第九十条の三第一項 → 国民年金法 第九十条の三第一項 (Article 90-3, paragraph (1)), art-90-3/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-pension-act/art-90-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334AC0000000141/art-90-3/par-1 - art-116/par-1: 第九十条の二第一項から第三項まで → 国民年金法 第九十条の二第一項 (Article 90-2, paragraph (1)), art-90-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-pension-act/art-90-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334AC0000000141/art-90-2/par-1 - art-116/par-1: 第九十条の二第一項から第三項まで → 国民年金法 第九十条の二第二項 (Article 90-2, paragraph (2)), art-90-2/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-pension-act/art-90-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334AC0000000141/art-90-2/par-2 - art-116/par-1: 第九十条の二第一項から第三項まで → 国民年金法 第九十条の二第三項 (Article 90-2, paragraph (3)), art-90-2/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-pension-act/art-90-2/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334AC0000000141/art-90-2/par-3 - art-116/par-1: 次項 → 国民年金法 第百十六条第二項 (Article 116, paragraph (2)), art-116/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-pension-act/art-116/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334AC0000000141/art-116/par-2 - art-116/par-1: 第百二十七条第一項 → 国民年金法 第百二十七条第一項 (Article 127, paragraph (1)), art-127/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-pension-act/art-127/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334AC0000000141/art-127/par-1 - art-116/par-3: 前二項 → 国民年金法 第百十六条第一項 (Article 116, paragraph (1)), art-116/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-pension-act/art-116/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334AC0000000141/art-116/par-1 - art-116/par-3: 前二項 → 国民年金法 第百十六条第二項 (Article 116, paragraph (2)), art-116/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-pension-act/art-116/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334AC0000000141/art-116/par-2 ## Cited by 4 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 国民年金法 第百十六条第一項（組織） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-pension-act/art-116/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334AC0000000141/art-116/par-1 - 国民年金法 第百十六条第三項（組織） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-pension-act/art-116/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334AC0000000141/art-116/par-3 - 国民年金法 附則第五条第十一項（任意加入被保険者） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-pension-act/suppl-3341-141/art-5/par-11 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334AC0000000141/suppl-3341-141/art-5/par-11 - 国民年金法 附則第五条第十二項（任意加入被保険者） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-pension-act/suppl-3341-141/art-5/par-12 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334AC0000000141/suppl-3341-141/art-5/par-12 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 国民年金法 — the text in force from 2026-10-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/334AC0000000141/20261001_507AC0000000074), retrieved 2026-10-05 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — 国民年金法 — its English title as the Ministry of Justice's translation database lists it (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/1772), retrieved 2026-09-18 - claude-sonnet-5 — Machine translation, batch national-pension-act-20260923T214903-027, translated 2026-09-24 - claude-sonnet-5 — Machine translation, batch national-pension-act-20260923T222116-003, translated 2026-09-24 - This site's parser, version 211 — 国民年金法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-05