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

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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
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- Provision: 第三条の八 (Article 3-8)（障害等級） — address `art-3-8`
- Text in force since: 2026-10-01
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### 第三条の八（障害等級） — Disability Grade
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>art-3-8 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act-enforcement-order/art-3-8</sup>

**第一項**  法第四十七条第二項に規定する障害等級の各級の障害の状態は、一級及び二級についてはそれぞれ国民年金法施行令別表に定める一級及び二級の障害の状態とし、三級については別表第一に定めるとおりとする。
<sup>art-3-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act-enforcement-order/art-3-8/par-1</sup>
The state of disability for each grade of the disability grades prescribed in Article 47, paragraph (2) of the Act is, for Grade 1 and Grade 2, the state of disability for Grade 1 and Grade 2 respectively prescribed in the Appended Table of the Order for Enforcement of the National Pension Act, and for Grade 3, as prescribed in Appended Table 1.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- art-3-8/par-1: 法第四十七条第二項 → 厚生年金保険法 第四十七条第二項 (Article 47, paragraph (2)), art-47/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-47/par-2 (e-Gov law ID 329AC0000000115)
- art-3-8/par-1: 別表第一 → 厚生年金保険法施行令 別表第一 (Appended Table 1), appdx-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act-enforcement-order/appdx-1

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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-20261106T164949-005, translated 2026-11-08
- 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
