# 厚生年金保険法 / Employees' Pension Insurance Act — 第八条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 8) - 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: 第八条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 8) — address `suppl-3461-72/art-8` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3461-72/art-8 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3461-72/art-8 - 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. --- ### 第八条 suppl-3461-72/art-8 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3461-72/art-8 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3461-72/art-8 **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第一項の規定は、昭和四十六年十一月一日前に行方不明となり、失踪の宣告を受けたことにより同日以後に死亡したとみなされた被保険者であつた者の遺族についても、適用する。 suppl-3461-72/art-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3461-72/art-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3461-72/art-8/par-1 The provisions of Article 59, paragraph (1) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act as amended by this Act also apply to the surviving family of a person who was an insured whose whereabouts became unknown before November 1, 1971 and who is deemed to have died on or after that day by reason of an adjudication of disappearance. 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-20261013T074650-023, 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