When the whereabouts of a person who has the right to receive a compensation pension for surviving family is unknown for not less than one year, the payment of the compensation pension for surviving family is suspended for as long as those whereabouts are unknown, upon the request filed by a person who holds the same rank in the order of priority if there is any such person, or upon the request filed by a person who holds the next rank in the order of priority if there is no person holding the same rank. In this case, if there is no person holding the same rank, the person who holds the next rank is the person with the first rank during that period.
遺族補償年金を受ける権利を有する者の所在が一年以上明らかでない場合には、当該遺族補償年金は、同順位者があるときは同順位者の、同順位者がないときは次順位者の申請によつて、その所在が明らかでない間、その支給を停止する。この場合において、同順位者がないときは、その間、次順位者を先順位者とする。
A surviving family member whose payment of the compensation pension for surviving family is suspended pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph may request for revocation of the suspension of the payment at any time.
前項の規定により遺族補償年金の支給を停止された遺族は、いつでも、その支給の停止の解除を申請することができる。
The provisions of Article 16-3, paragraph (3) apply mutatis mutandis where the payment of the compensation pension for surviving family is suspended pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) or where the suspension of the payment is revoked pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph. In this case, the term "month in which the increase or decrease occurred" in paragraph (3) of that Article is deemed to be replaced with the "month in which the payment is suspended or the suspension of the payment is revoked."