# 厚生年金保険法 / Employees' Pension Insurance Act — 第五十六条 (Article 56) - 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: 第五十六条 (Article 56) — address `art-56` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-56 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-56 - 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. --- ### 第五十六条 art-56 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-56 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-56 **第一項** 前条の規定により障害の程度を定めるべき日において次の各号のいずれかに該当する者には、同条の規定にかかわらず、障害手当金を支給しない。 art-56/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-56/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-56/par-1 Notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding Article, a disability allowance is not paid to a person who falls under any of the following items on the day on which the degree of severity of the person's disability is determined pursuant to the provisions of that Article: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **一** 年金たる保険給付の受給権者（最後に障害等級に該当する程度の障害の状態（以下この条において「障害状態」という。）に該当しなくなつた日から起算して障害状態に該当することなく三年を経過した障害厚生年金の受給権者（現に障害状態に該当しない者に限る。）を除く。） art-56/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-56/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-56/par-1/item-1 a beneficiary of pension insurance benefits (excluding the beneficiary of an employees' disability pension who has gone three years, counting from the last day on which the beneficiary ceased to have a disability of a degree of severity that is classified as any disability grade (having that disability is hereinafter referred to in this Article as "having a disability "), without being classified as having a disability (but only a beneficiary who does not have a disability at the time in question)); Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **二** 国民年金法による年金たる給付の受給権者（最後に障害状態に該当しなくなつた日から起算して障害状態に該当することなく三年を経過した障害基礎年金の受給権者（現に障害状態に該当しない者に限る。）その他の政令で定める者を除く。） art-56/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-56/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-56/par-1/item-2 a beneficiary of pension benefits under the National Pension Act (excluding the beneficiary of a basic disability pension who has gone three years, counting from the last day on which the beneficiary ceased have a disability, without being classified as having a disability (but only a beneficiary who does not have a disability at the time in question), and other persons specified by Cabinet Order); or Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **三** 当該傷病について国家公務員災害補償法（昭和二十六年法律第百九十一号。他の法律において準用する場合を含む。）、地方公務員災害補償法（昭和四十二年法律第百二十一号）若しくは同法に基づく条例、公立学校の学校医、学校歯科医及び学校薬剤師の公務災害補償に関する法律（昭和三十二年法律第百四十三号）若しくは労働基準法第七十七条の規定による障害補償、労働者災害補償保険法（昭和二十二年法律第五十号）の規定による障害補償給付、複数事業労働者障害給付若しくは障害給付又は船員保険法による障害を支給事由とする給付を受ける権利を有する者 art-56/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-56/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-56/par-1/item-3 persons who have the right to receive, for the relevant injury or illness, disability compensation pursuant to the provisions of the National Public Officers' Accident Compensation Act (Act No. 191 of 1951; including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to other Acts) or the Local Public Officers Accident Compensation Act (Act No. 121 of 1967) or the Prefectural or Municipal Ordinances under that Act, the Act on Occupational Accident Compensation for Public School Physicians, Dentists, and Pharmacists (Act No. 143 of 1957) or Article 77 of the Labor Standards Act, disability compensation benefits, disability benefits for multiple-job workers, or disability benefits pursuant to the provisions of the Industrial Accident Compensation Insurance Act (Act No. 50 of 1947), or benefits to be paid due to a disability pursuant to the provisions of the Mariners Insurance Act. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-56/par-1: 前条 → 厚生年金保険法 第五十五条 (Article 55), art-55 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-55 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-55 - art-56/par-1/item-1: この条 → 厚生年金保険法 第五十六条 (Article 56), art-56 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-56 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-56 - art-56/par-1/item-3: 労働基準法第七十七条 → 労働基準法 第七十七条 (Article 77), art-77 — https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act/art-77 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000049/art-77 ## Cited by 6 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 厚生年金保険法 第五十六条第一項第一号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-56/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-56/par-1/item-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 附則第七十一条第一項（厚生年金保険の障害手当金の支給要件の特例） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3601-34/art-71/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3601-34/art-71/par-1 - 厚生年金保険法 附則第七十一条第二項（厚生年金保険の障害手当金の支給要件の特例） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3601-34/art-71/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3601-34/art-71/par-2 - 厚生年金保険法 附則第七十一条第三項（厚生年金保険の障害手当金の支給要件の特例） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3601-34/art-71/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3601-34/art-71/par-3 - 厚生年金保険法 附則第七十一条第四項（厚生年金保険の障害手当金の支給要件の特例） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3601-34/art-71/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3601-34/art-71/par-4 --- ## 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 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch employees-pension-insurance-act-20261013T073658-001, translated 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