# 厚生年金保険法 / Employees' Pension Insurance Act — 第五十五条 (Article 55) - 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: 第五十五条 (Article 55)（障害手当金の受給権者） — address `art-55` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-55 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-55 - 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. --- ### 第五十五条（障害手当金の受給権者） — (Beneficiary of a Disability Allowance) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-55 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-55 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-55 **第一項** 障害手当金は、疾病にかかり、又は負傷し、その傷病に係る初診日において被保険者であつた者が、当該初診日から起算して五年を経過する日までの間におけるその傷病の治つた日において、その傷病により政令で定める程度の障害の状態にある場合に、その者に支給する。 art-55/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-55/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-55/par-1 If a person who has contracted an illness or suffered an injury and who was an insured on the day of initial examination for the injury or illness has a disability of the degree of severity prescribed by Cabinet Order as a result of that injury or illness as of the day on which the injury or illness has healed, within the period from the relevant day of initial examination until the day that marks the passage of five years' time since that day, a disability allowance is paid to that person. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 第四十七条第一項ただし書の規定は、前項の場合に準用する。 art-55/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-55/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-55/par-2 The provisions of the proviso of Article 47, paragraph (1) apply mutatis mutandis to a case under the preceding paragraph. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-55/par-2: 第四十七条第一項 → 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-55/par-2: 前項 → 厚生年金保険法 第五十五条第一項 (Article 55, paragraph (1)), art-55/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-55/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-55/par-1 ## Cited by 11 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 厚生年金保険法 第五十五条第二項（障害手当金の受給権者） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-55/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-55/par-2 - 厚生年金保険法 第五十六条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-56/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-56/par-1 - 厚生年金保険法 第百条の十第一項第十五号（機構への事務の委託） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-100-10/par-1/item-15 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-100-10/par-1/item-15 - 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 --- ## 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