Supplementary Provisions, Article 3Transitional Measures Accompanying the Partial Amendment of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act
第三条（厚生年金保険法の一部改正に伴う経過措置）
With regard to payment of unpaid insurance benefits for a beneficiary who died before April 1, 1961, the provisions then in force continue to govern.
昭和三十六年四月一日前に死亡した受給権者に係る未支給の保険給付の支給については、なお従前の例による。
In the case of determining, pursuant to the provisions of Article 37, paragraph (3) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act as amended, the order of surviving family members who are to receive insurance benefits with regard to unpaid insurance benefits for a beneficiary of insurance benefits who died during the period from April 1, 1961 until the day preceding the day this Act comes into effect (hereinafter referred to as the "Effective Date"), if the person who should be of prior order (if there are two or more persons who should be of prior order, all of them) has died by the day preceding the Effective Date, the person next in order on the Effective Date is the surviving family member of the order who is to receive those unpaid insurance benefits.
昭和三十六年四月一日からこの法律の施行の日（以下「施行日」という。）の前日までの間に死亡した保険給付の受給権者に係る未支給の保険給付につき改正後の厚生年金保険法第三十七条第三項の規定によりその保険給付を受けるべき遺族の順位を定める場合において、先順位者たるべき者（先順位者たるべき者が二人以上あるときは、そのすべての者）が施行日の前日までに死亡しているときは、施行日におけるその次順位者を、当該未支給の保険給付を受けるべき順位の遺族とする。
The provisions of Article 37 of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act as amended do not impair the rights acquired by a person who, before the Effective Date, acquired an unpaid pension, or the right to request its payment, pursuant to the provisions of that Article before the amendment.
改正後の厚生年金保険法第三十七条の規定は、施行日前に改正前の同条の規定により未支給の年金又はその支給を請求する権利を取得した者のその取得した権利を妨げない。