The bereaved family members who are to receive payment of a retirement allowance pursuant to the provisions of Article 10, paragraph (1) are the persons set out in the following items.
第十条第一項の規定により退職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, although not having filed a notification of marriage, was in circumstances equivalent to a de facto marital relationship with the covered employee at the time of the covered employee's death);
配偶者（届出をしていないが、被共済者の死亡の当時事実上婚姻関係と同様の事情にあつた者を含む。）
Children, parents, grandchildren, grandparents and siblings, in each case those who were mainly supported financially by the income of the covered employee at the time of the covered employee's death;
子、父母、孫、祖父母及び兄弟姉妹で被共済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
Relatives, other than the persons set out in the preceding item, who were mainly supported financially by the income of the covered employee at the time of the covered employee's death;
Children, parents, grandchildren, grandparents and siblings, in each case those 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
The order of priority of the bereaved family members who are to receive a retirement allowance is the order of the items of the preceding paragraph, and, among the persons set out in items (ii) and (iv) of that paragraph, the order in which they are set out in those items. 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 the biological parents of biological parents.
Where there are two or more persons of the same rank among the bereaved family members who are to receive a retirement allowance under the preceding paragraph, the retirement allowance is paid in equal shares according to their number.
前項の規定により退職金を受けるべき遺族に同順位者が二人以上あるときは、退職金は、その人数によつて等分して支給する。