# 厚生年金保険法 / Employees' Pension Insurance Act — 第四十七条の二 (Article 47-2) - 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: 第四十七条の二 (Article 47-2) — address `art-47-2` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-47-2 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-47-2 - 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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第四十七条の二 art-47-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-47-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-47-2 **第一項** 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、その傷病により障害等級に該当する程度の障害の状態に該当するに至つたときは、その者は、その期間内に同条第一項の障害厚生年金の支給を請求することができる。 art-47-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-47-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-47-2/par-1 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. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "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 the 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." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3554/tb **第二項** 前条第一項ただし書の規定は、前項の場合に準用する。 art-47-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-47-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-47-2/par-2 The provisions of the proviso to paragraph (1) of the preceding Article apply mutatis mutandis to a case under the preceding paragraph. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 第一項の請求があつたときは、前条第一項の規定にかかわらず、その請求をした者に同項の障害厚生年金を支給する。 art-47-2/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-47-2/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-47-2/par-3 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. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-47-2/par-1: 前条第二項 → 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 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-47/par-2 - art-47-2/par-1: 同条第一項 → 厚生年金保険法 第四十七条第一項 (Article 47, paragraph (1)), art-47/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-47/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-47/par-1 - art-47-2/par-2: 前条第一項 → 厚生年金保険法 第四十七条第一項 (Article 47, paragraph (1)), art-47/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-47/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-47/par-1 - art-47-2/par-2: 前項 → 厚生年金保険法 第四十七条の二第一項 (Article 47-2, paragraph (1)), art-47-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-47-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-47-2/par-1 - art-47-2/par-3: 第一項 → 厚生年金保険法 第四十七条の二第一項 (Article 47-2, paragraph (1)), art-47-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-47-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-47-2/par-1 - art-47-2/par-3: 前条第一項 → 厚生年金保険法 第四十七条第一項 (Article 47, paragraph (1)), art-47/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-47/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-47/par-1 ## Cited by 18 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 厚生年金保険法 第四十七条の二第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-47-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-47-2/par-2 - 厚生年金保険法 第四十七条の二第三項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-47-2/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-47-2/par-3 - 厚生年金保険法 第百条の四第一項第十五号（機構への厚生労働大臣の権限に係る事務の委任） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-100-4/par-1/item-15 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-100-4/par-1/item-15 - 厚生年金保険法 第百条の十第一項第十二号（機構への事務の委託） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-100-10/par-1/item-12 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-100-10/par-1/item-12 - 厚生年金保険法 附則第七条の二第一項（他の被保険者の種別に係る被保険者であつた期間の確認等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3291-115/art-7-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3291-115/art-7-2/par-1 - 厚生年金保険法 附則第七条の二第二項（他の被保険者の種別に係る被保険者であつた期間の確認等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3291-115/art-7-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3291-115/art-7-2/par-2 - 厚生年金保険法 附則第十六条の三第一項（障害厚生年金の特例） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3291-115/art-16-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3291-115/art-16-3/par-1 - 厚生年金保険法 附則第四十八条第六項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3601-34/art-48/par-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3601-34/art-48/par-6 - 厚生年金保険法 附則第六十四条第一項（障害厚生年金等の支給要件の特例） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3601-34/art-64/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3601-34/art-64/par-1 - 厚生年金保険法 附則第六十五条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3601-34/art-65/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3601-34/art-65/par-1 - 厚生年金保険法 附則第六十六条第一項（障害厚生年金の支給要件の特例） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3601-34/art-66/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3601-34/art-66/par-1 - 厚生年金保険法 附則第六十七条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3601-34/art-67/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3601-34/art-67/par-1 - 厚生年金保険法 附則第七十条第一項（障害厚生年金の額の計算の特例） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3601-34/art-70/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3601-34/art-70/par-1 - 厚生年金保険法 附則第九条第一項（障害厚生年金等の支給要件の特例） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-4081-82/art-9/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-4081-82/art-9/par-1 - 厚生年金保険法 附則第十条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-4081-82/art-10/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-4081-82/art-10/par-1 - 厚生年金保険法 附則第十八条第一項（障害厚生年金の支給要件の特例） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-4241-63/art-18/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-4241-63/art-18/par-1 - 厚生年金保険法 附則第十九条第一項（初診日が施行日前にある傷病による障害等の場合における経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-4241-63/art-19/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-4241-63/art-19/par-1 - 国民年金法 第三十条の二第四項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-pension-act/art-30-2/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334AC0000000141/art-30-2/par-4 --- ## Sources - claude-opus-5-5 — Corrections to the Ministry of Justice's English of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act, written 2026-10-13 - 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 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Employees' Pension Insurance Act (厚生年金保険法), Article 47-2, paragraph (1) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (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