# 厚生年金保険法施行令 / Order for Enforcement of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act — 第三条の十三の八 (Article 3-13-8)

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- Law: 厚生年金保険法施行令 (Order for Enforcement of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act), 昭和二十九年政令第百十号
- English title "Order for Enforcement of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act": claude-opus-5-5
- Kind: CabinetOrder — the distinction between 法律 (Act), 政令 (Cabinet Order), 省令 (Ministerial Order) and 条例 (local ordinance) decides who may issue it and what it may say.
- Provision: 第三条の十三の八 (Article 3-13-8)（各号の厚生年金被保険者期間のうち二以上の一の期間に基づく老齢厚生年金の受給権者に係る遺族厚生年金の額の計算に関する特例） — address `art-3-13-8`
- Text in force since: 2026-10-01
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### 第三条の十三の八（各号の厚生年金被保険者期間のうち二以上の一の期間に基づく老齢厚生年金の受給権者に係る遺族厚生年金の額の計算に関する特例） — Special Provisions on the Calculation of the Amount of Survivors' Employees' Pension for a Beneficiary of an Employees' Old-Age Pension Based on Two or More Times in One Category Among the Categories of EPI Insured Period
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>art-3-13-8 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act-enforcement-order/art-3-13-8</sup>

**第一項**  遺族厚生年金の受給権者が各号の厚生年金被保険者期間のうち二以上の一の期間に基づく老齢厚生年金の受給権者である場合における法第六十条第一項第二号の規定の適用については、同号ロ中「第四十四条第一項」とあるのは「第七十八条の二十二に規定する各号の厚生年金被保険者期間に基づく老齢厚生年金の額（厚生年金保険法施行令（昭和二十九年政令第百十号）第三条の十三第一項の規定により読み替えられた第四十四条第一項」と、「老齢厚生年金に」とあるのは「第七十八条の二十二に規定する一の期間に基づく老齢厚生年金に」と、「とする」とあるのは「とする。）を合算して得た額とする」とする。
<sup>art-3-13-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act-enforcement-order/art-3-13-8/par-1</sup>
In applying Article 60, paragraph (1), item (ii) of the Act where a beneficiary of a survivors' employees' pension is a beneficiary of employees' old-age pensions based on two or more times in one category among the categories of EPI insured period, the phrase "(or, for an employees' old-age pension" in (b) of that item is deemed to be replaced with "(the amount obtained by adding together the amounts of the employees' old-age pensions based on each category of EPI insured period prescribed in Article 78-22 (or, for an employees' old-age pension based on the time in one category prescribed in Article 78-22", the phrase "pursuant to the provisions of Article 44, paragraph (1)" in (b) of that item is deemed to be replaced with "pursuant to the provisions of Article 44, paragraph (1) as replaced pursuant to Article 3-13, paragraph (1) of the Order for Enforcement of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act (Cabinet Order No. 110 of 1954)", and the phrase "the amount to which those provisions do not apply;" in (b) of that item is deemed to be replaced with "the amount to which those provisions do not apply);".
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- art-3-13-8/par-1: 法第六十条第一項第二号 → 厚生年金保険法 第六十条第一項第二号 (Article 60, paragraph (1), item (ii)), art-60/par-1/item-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-60/par-1/item-2 (e-Gov law ID 329AC0000000115)
- art-3-13-8/par-1: 第四十四条第一項 → 厚生年金保険法 第四十四条第一項 (Article 44, paragraph (1)), art-44/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-44/par-1 (e-Gov law ID 329AC0000000115)
- art-3-13-8/par-1: 第七十八条の二十二 → 厚生年金保険法 第七十八条の二十二 (Article 78-22), art-78-22 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-78-22 (e-Gov law ID 329AC0000000115)
- art-3-13-8/par-1: 厚生年金保険法施行令（昭和二十九年政令第百十号）第三条の十三第一項 → 厚生年金保険法施行令 第三条の十三第一項 (Article 3-13, paragraph (1)), art-3-13/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act-enforcement-order/art-3-13/par-1

## Cited by

2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction.

- 厚生年金保険法施行令 第三条の十三の九第一項（各号の厚生年金被保険者期間のうち一の期間に基づく老齢厚生年金の受給権者が他の一の期間に基づく老齢厚生年金の受給権を更に取得した場合の遺族厚生年金の額の改定の特例） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act-enforcement-order/art-3-13-9/par-1
- 厚生年金保険法施行令 第三条の十三の九第二項（各号の厚生年金被保険者期間のうち一の期間に基づく老齢厚生年金の受給権者が他の一の期間に基づく老齢厚生年金の受給権を更に取得した場合の遺族厚生年金の額の改定の特例） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act-enforcement-order/art-3-13-9/par-2

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## Sources

- claude-opus-5-5 — English title of a law in this collection, written for this site, written 2026-11-06
- e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 厚生年金保険法施行令 — the text in force from 2026-10-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/329CO0000000110/20261001_508CO0000000276), retrieved 2026-11-06
- claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch employees-pension-insurance-act-enforcement-order-20261106T164949-011, translated 2026-11-07
- claude-sonnet-5-5, corrected on review by claude-opus-5-5 — Machine translation corrected on review, batch employees-pension-insurance-act-enforcement-order-20261106T164949-011, translated 2026-11-07
- This site's parser, version 229 — 厚生年金保険法施行令 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-06
