# 厚生年金保険法 / Employees' Pension Insurance Act — 第十一条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 11) - 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: 第十一条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 11)（遺族厚生年金の支給要件の特例） — address `suppl-4081-82/art-11` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-4081-82/art-11 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-4081-82/art-11 - 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. --- ### 第十一条（遺族厚生年金の支給要件の特例） — Special Provisions on Requirements for Payment of an Employees' Pension for Surviving Family caption: machine translation, not official suppl-4081-82/art-11 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-4081-82/art-11 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-4081-82/art-11 **第一項** 附則第十六条第三項の規定により厚生年金保険の実施者たる政府が支給するものとされた年金たる給付（死亡を支給事由とするものを除く。）の受給権者その他の者であっ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遺族厚生年金の支給に関し必要な経過措置は、政令で定める。 suppl-4081-82/art-11/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-4081-82/art-11/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-4081-82/art-11/par-1 Necessary transitional measures concerning payment of an employees' pension for surviving family under the Employees' Pension Insurance Act in the case where a person specified by Cabinet Order from among the beneficiaries of a pension benefit (excluding one for which death is the grounds for payment) that is to be paid by the government as the implementing organization of employees' pension insurance pursuant to the provisions of Article 16, paragraph (3) of the Supplementary Provisions and other persons dies on or after the Effective Date are specified by Cabinet Order. machine translation, not official **第二項** 平成十九年四月一日前に死亡した者（前項の政令で定める者に限る。）の死亡について厚生年金保険法第五十九条第一項の規定を適用する場合においては、同項第一号中「であること」とあるのは、「であるか、又は障害等級の一級若しくは二級に該当する程度の障害の状態にあること」とする。 suppl-4081-82/art-11/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-4081-82/art-11/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-4081-82/art-11/par-2 In applying the provisions of Article 59, paragraph (1) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act to the death of a person who died before April 1, 2007 (limited to a person specified by Cabinet Order prescribed in the preceding paragraph), the phrase "being 55 years of age or older" in item (i) of that paragraph is deemed to be replaced with "being 55 years of age or older, or having a disability of a degree of severity that is classified as Grade 1 or Grade 2 of the disability grades". machine translation, not official **第三項** 前項の規定により読み替えられた厚生年金保険法第五十九条第一項に規定する遺族である夫、父母又は祖父母の有する同法による遺族厚生年金の受給権は、同法第四十七条第二項に規定する障害等級の一級又は二級に該当する程度の障害の状態にある夫、父母又は祖父母について、その事情がやんだときは、消滅する。ただし、夫、父母又は祖父母が受給権を取得した当時五十五歳以上であったときを除く。 suppl-4081-82/art-11/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-4081-82/art-11/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-4081-82/art-11/par-3 The right to receive benefits from an employees' pension for surviving family under the Employees' Pension Insurance Act held by a husband, parent or grandparent who is a surviving family member prescribed in Article 59, paragraph (1) of that Act as read pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph ceases to exist when the circumstances cease with regard to the husband, parent or grandparent who has a disability of a degree of severity that is classified as Grade 1 or Grade 2 of the disability grades prescribed in Article 47, paragraph (2) of that Act; provided, however, that this does not apply if the husband, parent or grandparent was 55 years of age or older at the time of acquiring the right to receive benefits. machine translation, not official **第四項** 第二項の規定により読み替えられた厚生年金保険法第五十九条第一項に規定する遺族である夫、父母又は祖父母が同法による遺族厚生年金の受給権を取得した当時から引き続き同法第四十七条第二項に規定する障害等級の一級又は二級に該当する程度の障害の状態にある間は、その者については、同法第六十五条の二の規定は適用しない。 suppl-4081-82/art-11/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-4081-82/art-11/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-4081-82/art-11/par-4 While a husband, parent or grandparent who is a surviving family member prescribed in Article 59, paragraph (1) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act as read pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (2) has continuously, since the time the person acquired the right to receive benefits from an employees' pension for surviving family under that Act, had a disability of a degree of severity that is classified as Grade 1 or Grade 2 of the disability grades prescribed in Article 47, paragraph (2) of that Act, the provisions of Article 65-2 of that Act do not apply to that person. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-4081-82/art-11/par-2: 前項 → 厚生年金保険法 附則第十一条第一項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 11, paragraph (1)), suppl-4081-82/art-11/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-4081-82/art-11/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-4081-82/art-11/par-1 - suppl-4081-82/art-11/par-2: 厚生年金保険法第五十九条第一項 → 厚生年金保険法 第五十九条第一項 (Article 59, paragraph (1)), art-59/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-59/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-59/par-1 - suppl-4081-82/art-11/par-2: 同項第一号 → 厚生年金保険法 第五十九条第一項第一号 (Article 59, paragraph (1), item (i)), art-59/par-1/item-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-59/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-59/par-1/item-1 - suppl-4081-82/art-11/par-3: 前項 → 厚生年金保険法 附則第十一条第二項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 11, paragraph (2)), suppl-4081-82/art-11/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-4081-82/art-11/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-4081-82/art-11/par-2 - suppl-4081-82/art-11/par-3: 厚生年金保険法第五十九条第一項 → 厚生年金保険法 第五十九条第一項 (Article 59, paragraph (1)), art-59/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-59/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-59/par-1 - suppl-4081-82/art-11/par-3: 同法第四十七条第二項 → 厚生年金保険法 第四十七条第二項 (Article 47, paragraph (2)), art-47/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-47/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-47/par-2 - suppl-4081-82/art-11/par-4: 第二項 → 厚生年金保険法 附則第十一条第二項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 11, paragraph (2)), suppl-4081-82/art-11/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-4081-82/art-11/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-4081-82/art-11/par-2 - suppl-4081-82/art-11/par-4: 厚生年金保険法第五十九条第一項 → 厚生年金保険法 第五十九条第一項 (Article 59, paragraph (1)), art-59/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-59/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-59/par-1 - suppl-4081-82/art-11/par-4: 同法第四十七条第二項 → 厚生年金保険法 第四十七条第二項 (Article 47, paragraph (2)), art-47/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-47/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-47/par-2 - suppl-4081-82/art-11/par-4: 同法第六十五条の二 → 厚生年金保険法 第六十五条の二 (Article 65-2), art-65-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-65-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-65-2 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 厚生年金保険法 附則第十一条第二項（遺族厚生年金の支給要件の特例） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-4081-82/art-11/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-4081-82/art-11/par-2 - 厚生年金保険法 附則第十一条第三項（遺族厚生年金の支給要件の特例） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-4081-82/art-11/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-4081-82/art-11/par-3 - 厚生年金保険法 附則第十一条第四項（遺族厚生年金の支給要件の特例） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-4081-82/art-11/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-4081-82/art-11/par-4 --- ## 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-20261013T074650-050, 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