If a person who has contracted an illness or suffered an injury, who was an insured on the day of initial examination for that injury or illness, and who did not have a disability of a degree of severity that is classified as any of the disability grades provided for in paragraph (2) of the preceding Article (hereinafter simply referred to as the "disability grades") as of the day of disability assessment, has come to have a disability of a degree of severity that is classified as any of the disability grades due to that injury or illness during the period from the day until the day before the day on which the person reaches the age of 65, the person is entitled to claim the payment of the employees' disability pension under paragraph (1) of that Article during that period.
The provisions of the proviso to paragraph (1) of the preceding Article apply mutatis mutandis to a case under the preceding paragraph.
Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (1) of the preceding Article, if the claim under paragraph (1) of this Article is made, employees' disability pension under paragraph (1) of the preceding Article is paid to the person who makes the claim.
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If a person who has contracted an illness or suffered an injury, who was an insured on the day of initial examination for that injury or illness, and who did not have a disability of a degree of…
疾病にかかり、又は負傷し、かつ、その傷病に係る初診日において被保険者であつた者であつて、障害認定日において前条第二項に規定する障害等級（以下単に「障害等級」という。）に該当する程度の障害の状態になかつたものが、同日後六十五歳に達する日の前日までの間において…
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If a person who has contracted an illness or suffered an injury and who was an insured on the day on which the person underwent the first medical examination with a doctor or dentist in connection…
障害厚生年金は、疾病にかかり、又は負傷し、その疾病又は負傷及びこれらに起因する疾病（以下「傷病」という。）につき初めて医師又は歯科医師の診療を受けた日（以下「初診日」という。）において被保険者であつた者が…
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The disability grade is classified in order of severity from Grade 1 to 3, with Grade 1 being the severest, and the description of the disability for each grade is provided by Cabinet Order.
障害等級は、障害の程度に応じて重度のものから一級、二級及び三級とし、各級の障害の状態は、政令で定める。
Open this provisioninjury or illness
「傷病」
An illness or injury, together with any illness it causes.
Short name set inArticle 47, paragraph (1)
day of initial examination
「初診日」
The day a person was first examined by a doctor or dentist for the injury or illness (傷病) in question.
Short name set inArticle 47, paragraph (1)
day of disability assessment
「障害認定日」
For the employees' disability pension (障害厚生年金), the day one year and six months after the day of initial examination (初診日) for an injury or illness (傷病), or the day within that time on which it is cured, including the day its symptoms settle with no further benefit expected from treatment (Article 47, paragraph (1)).
Short name set inArticle 47, paragraph (1)
disability grades
「障害等級」
The grades of disability in Article 47, paragraph (2): grade 1, grade 2 and grade 3, from the most severe, with the state of disability for each set by Cabinet Order (政令).
Short name set inArticle 47-2, paragraph (1)