# 厚生年金保険法 / Employees' Pension Insurance Act — 第九十七条 (Article 97) - 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: 第九十七条 (Article 97)（診断） — address `art-97` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-97 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-97 - 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. --- ### 第九十七条（診断） — (Diagnosis) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-97 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-97 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-97 **第一項** 実施機関は、必要があると認めるときは、障害等級に該当する程度の障害の状態にあることにより、年金たる保険給付の受給権を有し、又は第四十四条第一項の規定によりその者について加算が行われている子に対して、その指定する医師の診断を受けるべきことを命じ、又は当該職員をしてこれらの者の障害の状態を診断させることができる。 art-97/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-97/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-97/par-1 On finding that it is necessary to do so, an implementing organization may order that a child who has the right to receive pension insurance benefits due to having a disability of a degree of severity that is classified as any disability grade or to whose pension an amount is added pursuant to the provisions of Article 44, paragraph (1) due to the child having a disability of a degree of severity that is classified as any disability grade be diagnosed by a medical doctor designated by the Minister, and may have a competent official diagnose the severity of the disability of the child. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前条第二項の規定は、前項の規定による当該職員の診断について準用する。 art-97/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-97/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-97/par-2 The provisions of paragraph (2) of the preceding Article apply mutatis mutandis to diagnosis by a competent official under the provisions of the preceding paragraph. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-97/par-1: 第四十四条第一項 → 厚生年金保険法 第四十四条第一項 (Article 44, paragraph (1)), art-44/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-44/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-44/par-1 - art-97/par-2: 前条第二項 → 厚生年金保険法 第九十六条第二項 (Article 96, paragraph (2)), art-96/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-96/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-96/par-2 - art-97/par-2: 前項 → 厚生年金保険法 第九十七条第一項 (Article 97, paragraph (1)), art-97/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-97/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-97/par-1 ## Cited by 4 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 厚生年金保険法 第七十七条第一項第二号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-77/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-77/par-1/item-2 - 厚生年金保険法 第九十七条第二項（診断） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-97/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-97/par-2 - 厚生年金保険法 第百条の四第一項第三十四号（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-34 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-100-4/par-1/item-34 - 厚生年金保険法 第百条の八第二項（機構が行う立入検査等に係る認可等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-100-8/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-100-8/par-2 --- ## 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