# 厚生年金保険法 / Employees' Pension Insurance Act — 第十六条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 16) - 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: 第十六条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 16)（旧法による寡婦年金の例により支給する保険給付に関する経過措置） — address `suppl-3401-104/art-16` - 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-16 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3401-104/art-16 - 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. --- ### 第十六条（旧法による寡婦年金の例により支給する保険給付に関する経過措置） — Transitional Measures Concerning Insurance Benefits Paid in Accordance with the Widow's Pension under the Former Act caption: machine translation, not official suppl-3401-104/art-16 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3401-104/art-16 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3401-104/art-16 **第一項** 厚生年金保険法附則第十六条第一項後段の規定による保険給付のうち、従前の寡婦年金の例によつて支給する保険給付を受ける権利の取得については、この法律の公布の日以後においては、同項の規定によりその例によるものとされている旧厚生年金保険法（昭和十六年法律第六十号）の当該規定にかかわらず、この法律による改正後の厚生年金保険法第五十九条第一項（妻に関する部分に限る。）の規定の例による。 suppl-3401-104/art-16/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3401-104/art-16/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3401-104/art-16/par-1 With regard to the acquisition of the right to receive insurance benefits paid in accordance with the previous widow's pension, among the insurance benefits under the latter part of Article 16, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act, on or after the day of the promulgation of this Act, notwithstanding the relevant provisions of the former Employees' Pension Insurance Act (Act No. 60 of 1941), which are to be followed pursuant to the provisions of that paragraph, the provisions of Article 59, paragraph (1) (limited to the part concerning wives) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act as amended by this Act are followed. machine translation, not official **第二項** 厚生年金保険法附則第十六条第一項の規定による保険給付のうち、従前の寡婦年金の例によつて支給する保険給付を受ける権利の消滅については、この法律の公布の日以後においては、同項の規定によりその例によるものとされている旧厚生年金保険法の当該規定にかかわらず、この法律による改正後の厚生年金保険法第六十三条第一項の規定の例による。 suppl-3401-104/art-16/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3401-104/art-16/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3401-104/art-16/par-2 With regard to the extinguishment of the right to receive insurance benefits paid in accordance with the previous widow's pension, among the insurance benefits under Article 16, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act, on or after the day of the promulgation of this Act, notwithstanding the relevant provisions of the former Employees' Pension Insurance Act, which are to be followed pursuant to the provisions of that paragraph, the provisions of Article 63, paragraph (1) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act as amended by this Act are followed. machine translation, not official --- ## 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