# 厚生年金保険法 / Employees' Pension Insurance Act — 第四十五条 (Article 45) - Law: 厚生年金保険法 (Employees' Pension Insurance Act), 昭和二十九年法律第百十五号 - English title "Employees' Pension Insurance Act": Ministry of Justice translation - Kind: Act — 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: 第四十五条 (Article 45)（失権） — address `art-45` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-45 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-45 - Every provision below carries its address and both URLs on the line under it. - Japanese text: e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁). English: as marked on each line below. Only the Japanese as published by the government has legal effect; the text below is a copy of it. Every English rendering below is a translation and says which kind: the Ministry of Justice's translation, or this site's machine translation, whose model and date the Sources list names. They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第四十五条（失権） — (Loss of Rights) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-45 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-45 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-45 **第一項** 老齢厚生年金の受給権は、受給権者が死亡したときは、消滅する。 art-45/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-45/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-45/par-1 The right to benefits from an employees' old-age pension ceases to exist when the beneficiary dies. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 厚生年金保険法 附則第十条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3291-115/art-10/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3291-115/art-10/par-1 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 厚生年金保険法 — the text in force from 2026-10-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/329AC0000000115/20261001_507AC0000000074), retrieved 2026-10-13 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Employees' Pension Insurance Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3554/tb), retrieved 2026-10-13 - This site's parser, version 190 — 厚生年金保険法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-13