Supplementary Provisions, Article 11Special Provisions on Requirements for Payment of an Employees' Pension for Surviving Family
第十一条（遺族厚生年金の支給要件の特例）
Necessary transitional measures concerning payment of an employees' pension for surviving family under the Employees' Pension Insurance Act in the case where a person specified by Cabinet Order from among the beneficiaries of a pension benefit (excluding one for which death is the grounds for payment) that is to be paid by the government as the implementing organization of employees' pension insurance pursuant to the provisions of Article 16, paragraph (3) of the Supplementary Provisions and other persons dies on or after the Effective Date are specified by Cabinet Order.
In applying the provisions of Article 59, paragraph (1) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act to the death of a person who died before April 1, 2007 (limited to a person specified by Cabinet Order prescribed in the preceding paragraph), the phrase "being 55 years of age or older" in item (i) of that paragraph is deemed to be replaced with "being 55 years of age or older, or having a disability of a degree of severity that is classified as Grade 1 or Grade 2 of the disability grades".
平成十九年四月一日前に死亡した者（前項の政令で定める者に限る。）の死亡について厚生年金保険法第五十九条第一項の規定を適用する場合においては、同項第一号中「であること」とあるのは、「であるか、又は障害等級の一級若しくは二級に該当する程度の障害の状態にあること」とする。
The right to receive benefits from an employees' pension for surviving family under the Employees' Pension Insurance Act held by a husband, parent or grandparent who is a surviving family member prescribed in Article 59, paragraph (1) of that Act as read pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph ceases to exist when the circumstances cease with regard to the husband, parent or grandparent who has a disability of a degree of severity that is classified as Grade 1 or Grade 2 of the disability grades prescribed in Article 47, paragraph (2) of that Act; provided, however, that this does not apply if the husband, parent or grandparent was 55 years of age or older at the time of acquiring the right to receive benefits.
前項の規定により読み替えられた厚生年金保険法第五十九条第一項に規定する遺族である夫、父母又は祖父母の有する同法による遺族厚生年金の受給権は、同法第四十七条第二項に規定する障害等級の一級又は二級に該当する程度の障害の状態にある夫、父母又は祖父母について、その事情がやんだときは、消滅する。ただし、夫、父母又は祖父母が受給権を取得した当時五十五歳以上であったときを除く。
While a husband, parent or grandparent who is a surviving family member prescribed in Article 59, paragraph (1) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act as read pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (2) has continuously, since the time the person acquired the right to receive benefits from an employees' pension for surviving family under that Act, had a disability of a degree of severity that is classified as Grade 1 or Grade 2 of the disability grades prescribed in Article 47, paragraph (2) of that Act, the provisions of Article 65-2 of that Act do not apply to that person.
第二項の規定により読み替えられた厚生年金保険法第五十九条第一項に規定する遺族である夫、父母又は祖父母が同法による遺族厚生年金の受給権を取得した当時から引き続き同法第四十七条第二項に規定する障害等級の一級又は二級に該当する程度の障害の状態にある間は、その者については、同法第六十五条の二の規定は適用しない。