# 厚生年金保険法 / Employees' Pension Insurance Act — 第七十七条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 77) - 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: 第七十七条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 77)（厚生年金保険法による特例遺族年金の支給要件の特例） — address `suppl-3601-34/art-77` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3601-34/art-77 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3601-34/art-77 - 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. --- ### 第七十七条（厚生年金保険法による特例遺族年金の支給要件の特例） — Special Provisions on Requirements for Payment of Special Pension for Surviving Family under the Employees' Pension Insurance Act caption: machine translation, not official suppl-3601-34/art-77 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3601-34/art-77 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3601-34/art-77 **第一項** 大正十五年四月一日以前に生まれた者であつて旧厚生年金保険法附則第二十八条の三第一項第一号イ又はロのいずれかに該当する者その他の者であつて政令で定めるものが、施行日以後に死亡した場合における厚生年金保険法による特例遺族年金の支給に関し必要な経過措置は、政令で定める。 suppl-3601-34/art-77/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3601-34/art-77/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3601-34/art-77/par-1 Necessary transitional measures concerning payment of a special pension for surviving family under the Employees' Pension Insurance Act in the case where a person born on or before April 1, 1926 who falls under Article 28-3, paragraph (1), item (i), (a) or (b) of the Supplementary Provisions of the former Employees' Pension Insurance Act, or any other person specified by Cabinet Order, dies on or after the Effective Date are specified by Cabinet Order. 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-20261013T074650-035, 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