If there are two or more beneficiaries of an employees' pension for surviving family who are not the spouse, and the whereabouts of one or more of the beneficiaries remain unknown for one year or longer, the payment of the employees' pension for surviving family to that person is suspended retroactively to the time at which the whereabouts of the person or persons became unknown, upon the application of another beneficiary.
A person who has had their payment of an employees' pension for surviving family suspended pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph may, at any time, apply to have the suspension of payment lifted.
前項の規定によつて遺族厚生年金の支給を停止された者は、いつでも、その支給の停止の解除を申請することができる。
The provisions of Article 61, paragraph (1) apply mutatis mutandis if the payment of the employees' pension for surviving family is suspended pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) or if the suspension is lifted pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph. In such a case, the phrase "the month in which the number increased or decreased" in paragraph (1) of that Article is deemed to be replaced with "the month in which the payment is suspended or the suspension is lifted".