Supplementary Provisions, Article 72Special Provisions on Requirements for Payment of an Employees' Pension for Surviving Family
第七十二条（遺族厚生年金の支給要件の特例）
Necessary transitional measures concerning payment of an employees' pension for surviving family in the case where a beneficiary of a disability pension under the former Employees' Pension Insurance Act who is in a state of disability of Grade 1 or Grade 2 as provided for in Appended Table 1 of that Act, a person who, after losing the status of an insured under employees' pension insurance, died of an injury or illness that arose while the person was an insured under employees' pension insurance (limited to one that arose before the Effective Date) before the day on which five years elapse counting from the day of initial examination, a person born on or before April 1, 1926 who satisfies the insured period prescribed in any of Article 42, paragraph (1), items (i) through (iii) of that Act, or any other person specified by Cabinet Order dies on or after the Effective Date are specified by Cabinet Order.
In applying the provisions of Article 59, paragraph (1) of the new Employees' Pension Insurance Act to the death of a person who died before April 1, 1996, the phrase "being 55 years of age or older" in item (i) of that paragraph is deemed to be replaced with "being 55 years of age or older, or having a disability classified as Grade 1 or Grade 2 of the disability grades".
平成八年四月一日前に死亡した者の死亡について新厚生年金保険法第五十九条第一項の規定を適用する場合においては、同項第一号中「であること」とあるのは、「であるか、又は障害等級の一級若しくは二級に該当する障害の状態にあること」とする。
With regard to the cessation of an employees' pension for surviving family for the surviving family member prescribed in Article 59, paragraph (1) of the new Employees' Pension Insurance Act as read pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the provisions of Article 63, paragraph (3) of the former Employees' Pension Insurance Act remain in force. In this case, the phrase "Grade 1 or Grade 2 as provided for in Appended Table 1" in that paragraph is deemed to be replaced with "classified as Grade 1 or Grade 2 of the disability grades", and the phrase "60 years of age" with "55 years of age".
前項の規定により読み替えられた新厚生年金保険法第五十九条第一項に規定する遺族に対する遺族厚生年金の失権については、旧厚生年金保険法第六十三条第三項の規定は、なおその効力を有する。この場合において、同項中「別表第一に定める一級又は二級の」とあるのは「障害等級の一級又は二級に該当する」と、「六十歳」とあるのは「五十五歳」と読み替えるものとする。
While a husband, parent or grandparent who is a surviving family member prescribed in Article 59, paragraph (1) of the new Employees' Pension Insurance Act as read pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (2) has been continuously in a state of disability classified as Grade 1 or Grade 2 of the disability grades since the time the person acquired the right to receive benefits from an employees' pension for surviving family, the provisions of Article 65-2 of that Act do not apply to that person.