# 厚生年金保険法 / Employees' Pension Insurance Act — 第十四条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 14)

- 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: 第十四条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 14)（死亡の推定に関する経過措置） — address `suppl-3401-104/art-14`
- Text in force since: 2026-10-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3401-104/art-14
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3401-104/art-14
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### 第十四条（死亡の推定に関する経過措置） — Transitional Measures Concerning Presumption of Death
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>suppl-3401-104/art-14 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3401-104/art-14 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3401-104/art-14</sup>

**第一項**  この法律による改正後の厚生年金保険法第五十九条の二の規定は、この法律の公布前に船舶若しくは航空機が沈没し、転覆し、墜落し、滅失し、若しくは行方不明となつた際これに乗つており、又は船舶若しくは航空機に乗つていて、その航行中に行方不明となり、この法律の公布の際まだその生死がわからないか、又は三箇月以内にその死亡が明らかとなりこの法律の公布の際まだその死亡の時期がわからない被保険者又は被保険者であつた者についても、適用する。
<sup>suppl-3401-104/art-14/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3401-104/art-14/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3401-104/art-14/par-1</sup>
The provisions of Article 59-2 of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act as amended by this Act also apply to an insured or former insured who was on board a ship or an airplane, before the promulgation of this Act, when the ship or airplane sank, capsized, crashed, was destroyed, or went missing, or who was on board a ship or an airplane and went missing while it was sailing or flying, and for whom it is still not known at the time of the promulgation of this Act whether the person is alive or dead, or for whom it became clear within three months that the person has died but the time of death is still not known at the time of the promulgation of this Act.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## 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-20261013T074650-020, 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
