The right to receive a compensation pension for surviving family is extinguished when a surviving family member having the right falls under any of the following items. In this case, when there is no person holding the same rank in the order of priority but there is a person(s) holding a lower rank, the compensation pension for surviving family is paid to the person(s) who holds the next rank:
遺族補償年金を受ける権利は、その権利を有する遺族が次の各号の一に該当するに至つたときは、消滅する。この場合において、同順位者がなくて後順位者があるときは、次順位者に遺族補償年金を支給する。
when the surviving family member eligible for survivors benefit dies;
死亡したとき。
when the surviving family member eligible for survivors benefit is married (including cases where they did not register marriage but the surviving family member is in a de facto marital relationship);
婚姻（届出をしていないが、事実上婚姻関係と同様の事情にある場合を含む。）をしたとき。
when the surviving family member eligible for survivors benefit is adopted by a person other than their lineal relative by blood or their lineal relative through marriage (including a person who did not register adoption but is in a de facto adoptive relationship);
直系血族又は直系姻族以外の者の養子（届出をしていないが、事実上養子縁組関係と同様の事情にある者を含む。）となつたとき。
when the kinship between the surviving family member and the deceased worker is terminated by the dissolution of their kinship;
離縁によつて、死亡した労働者との親族関係が終了したとき。
in the case of children, grandchildren or siblings, when the first March 31 after they turned 18 years old ends (excluding cases where they have been disabled as specified in Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare set forth in Article 16-2, paragraph (1), item (iv) continuously from the time of the death of the worker); or
子、孫又は兄弟姉妹については、十八歳に達した日以後の最初の三月三十一日が終了したとき（労働者の死亡の時から引き続き第十六条の二第一項第四号の厚生労働省令で定める障害の状態にあるときを除く。）。
in the case of the worker's husband, children, parents, grandchildren, grandparents or siblings who are disabled as specified in Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare set forth in Article 16-2, paragraph (1), item (iv), when such circumstances have ceased to exist (excluding cases where the worker's husband, parents or grandparents were 60 years of age or older at the time of the worker's death, where the worker's children or grandchildren have not experienced the first March 31 after they turned 18 years old, and where the worker's siblings have not experienced the first March 31 after they turned 18 years old or they were 60 years of age or older at the time of the worker's death).
第十六条の二第一項第四号の厚生労働省令で定める障害の状態にある夫、子、父母、孫、祖父母又は兄弟姉妹については、その事情がなくなつたとき（夫、父母又は祖父母については、労働者の死亡の当時六十歳以上であつたとき、子又は孫については、十八歳に達する日以後の最初の三月三十一日までの間にあるとき、兄弟姉妹については、十八歳に達する日以後の最初の三月三十一日までの間にあるか又は労働者の死亡の当時六十歳以上であつたときを除く。）。
When a surviving family member eligible to receive a compensation pension for surviving family falls under any of the items of the preceding paragraph, the member cease to be a surviving family member eligible to receive the compensation pension for surviving family.
遺族補償年金を受けることができる遺族が前項各号の一に該当するに至つたときは、その者は、遺族補償年金を受けることができる遺族でなくなる。