# 厚生年金保険法 / Employees' Pension Insurance Act — 第十七条の三 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 17-3) - 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: 第十七条の三 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 17-3)（遺族厚生年金の額の改定の特例） — address `suppl-3291-115/art-17-3` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3291-115/art-17-3 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3291-115/art-17-3 - 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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第十七条の三（遺族厚生年金の額の改定の特例） — Special Provisions on Revision of the Amount of Employees' Pension for Surviving Family caption: machine translation, not official suppl-3291-115/art-17-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3291-115/art-17-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3291-115/art-17-3 **第一項** 第六十一条第二項の規定の適用については、当分の間、同項中「老齢厚生年金の受給権を取得した日に」とあるのは「六十五歳に達した日以後に老齢厚生年金の受給権を取得した日（附則第七条の三第三項又は第十三条の四第三項の規定による老齢厚生年金の受給権を有する者にあつては、六十五歳に達した日）に」と、「同項第二号イ」とあるのは「前条第一項第二号イ」と、「当該老齢厚生年金の受給権を取得した日の」とあるのは「当該老齢厚生年金の受給権を取得した日（附則第七条の三第三項又は第十三条の四第三項の規定による老齢厚生年金の受給権を有する者にあつては、六十五歳に達した日）の」とする。 suppl-3291-115/art-17-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3291-115/art-17-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3291-115/art-17-3/par-1 For the purpose of applying Article 61, paragraph (2), for the time being, in Article 61, paragraph (2), the phrase "as of the day on which the beneficiary of an employees' pension for surviving family of an amount calculated pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1), item (i) of the preceding Article (limited to one for the spouse) acquired the right to receive benefits from an employees' old-age pension" is deemed to be replaced with "as of the day on which the beneficiary of an employees' pension for surviving family of an amount calculated pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1), item (i) of the preceding Article (limited to one for the spouse) acquired the right to receive benefits from an employees' old-age pension on or after the day on which the beneficiary reached the age of 65 (or, for a person who has the right to receive benefits from an employees' old-age pension under the provisions of Article 7-3, paragraph (3) or Article 13-4, paragraph (3) of the Supplementary Provisions, the day on which the person reached the age of 65)", the phrase "item (ii), (a) and (b) of that paragraph" is deemed to be replaced with "item (ii), (a) and (b) of paragraph (1) of the preceding Article", and the phrase "the day on which the person acquired the right to receive benefits from the employees' old-age pension" is deemed to be replaced with "the day on which the person acquired the right to receive benefits from the employees' old-age pension (or, for a person who has the right to receive benefits from an employees' old-age pension under the provisions of Article 7-3, paragraph (3) or Article 13-4, paragraph (3) of the Supplementary Provisions, the day on which the person reached the age of 65)". machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-3291-115/art-17-3/par-1: 第六十一条第二項 → 厚生年金保険法 第六十一条第二項 (Article 61, paragraph (2)), art-61/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-61/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-61/par-2 - suppl-3291-115/art-17-3/par-1: 附則第七条の三第三項 → 厚生年金保険法 附則第七条の三第三項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 7-3, paragraph (3)), suppl-3291-115/art-7-3/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3291-115/art-7-3/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3291-115/art-7-3/par-3 - suppl-3291-115/art-17-3/par-1: 第十三条の四第三項 → 厚生年金保険法 附則第十三条の四第三項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 13-4, paragraph (3)), suppl-3291-115/art-13-4/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3291-115/art-13-4/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3291-115/art-13-4/par-3 - suppl-3291-115/art-17-3/par-1: 前条第一項第二号 → 厚生年金保険法 第六十条第一項第二号 (Article 60, paragraph (1), item (ii)), art-60/par-1/item-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-60/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-60/par-1/item-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 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch employees-pension-insurance-act-20261013T074650-012, 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