The surviving family members entitled to receive payment of the mutual aid benefits prescribed in Article 9, paragraph (1) are the persons set out in the following items:
第九条第一項に規定する共済金の支給を受けるべき遺族は、次の各号に掲げる者とする。
a spouse (including a person who has not filed a notification of marriage but who, at the time of the mutual aid policyholder's death, was in a situation equivalent to a marital relationship in fact);
配偶者（届出をしていないが、共済契約者の死亡の当時事実上婚姻関係と同様の事情にあつたものを含む。）
children, parents, grandchildren, grandparents and siblings who, at the time of the mutual aid policyholder's death, were mainly dependent on the policyholder's income for their livelihood;
子、父母、孫、祖父母及び兄弟姉妹で共済契約者の死亡の当時主としてその収入によつて生計を維持していたもの
in addition to the persons set out in the preceding item, relatives who, at the time of the mutual aid policyholder's death, were mainly dependent on the policyholder's income for their livelihood;
children, parents, grandchildren, grandparents and siblings who do not fall under item (ii);
子、父母、孫、祖父母及び兄弟姉妹で第二号に該当しないもの
children of grandchildren and children of siblings who do not fall under item (iii).
孫の子及び兄弟姉妹の子のうち第三号に該当しないもの
The order of priority among the surviving family members entitled to receive payment of mutual aid benefits is the order of the items of the preceding paragraph, and, among the persons set out in items (ii), (iv) and (v) of that paragraph, the order in which they are listed in the relevant item; in this case, for parents, the order is adoptive parents and then biological parents, and for grandparents, the order is the adoptive parents of adoptive parents, the biological parents of adoptive parents, the adoptive parents of biological parents, and then the biological parents of biological parents.
Where there are two or more persons of the same rank among the surviving family members entitled to receive payment of mutual aid benefits under the preceding paragraph, the mutual aid benefits are to be paid in equal shares divided by the number of those persons.
前項の規定により共済金の支給を受けるべき遺族に同順位者が二人以上あるときは、共済金は、その人数によつて等分して支給する。