# 国民年金法施行令 / Order for Enforcement of the National Pension Act — 第六条の四 (Article 6-4) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/national-pension-act-enforcement-order/art-6-4. Every law, and how to address a provision: https://japanlaw.org/llms.txt. The same laws as MCP tools (no sign-in): https://japanlaw.org/mcp. - Law: 国民年金法施行令 (Order for Enforcement of the National Pension Act), 昭和三十四年政令第百八十四号 - English title "Order for Enforcement of the National Pension Act": claude-opus-5-5 - Kind: CabinetOrder — 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: 第六条の四 (Article 6-4)（遺族基礎年金等の生計維持の認定） — address `art-6-4` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/national-pension-act-enforcement-order/art-6-4 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/334CO0000000184/art-6-4 - 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. --- ### 第六条の四（遺族基礎年金等の生計維持の認定） — Recognition of Livelihood Maintenance for Survivors' Basic Pension, etc. caption: machine translation, not official art-6-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/national-pension-act-enforcement-order/art-6-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334CO0000000184/art-6-4 **第一項** 法第三十七条の二第一項に規定する被保険者又は被保険者であつた者の死亡の当時その者によつて生計を維持していた配偶者又は子及び法第四十九条第一項に規定する夫の死亡の当時その者によつて生計を維持していた妻は、当該被保険者又は被保険者であつた者及び夫の死亡の当時その者と生計を同じくしていた者であつて厚生労働大臣の定める金額以上の収入を将来にわたつて有すると認められる者以外のものその他これに準ずる者として厚生労働大臣が定める者とする。 art-6-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/national-pension-act-enforcement-order/art-6-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334CO0000000184/art-6-4/par-1 The spouse or child who had their livelihood maintained by an insured person or a person who was an insured person at the time of the death of that person, as prescribed in Article 37-2, paragraph (1) of the Act, and the wife who had her livelihood maintained by her husband at the time of the death of the husband, as prescribed in Article 49, paragraph (1) of the Act, are persons who shared a livelihood with that insured person or person who was an insured person, or with the husband, at the time of that death, other than those found to have income of an amount specified by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare or more into the future, or any other person specified by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare as equivalent thereto. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-6-4/par-1: 法第三十七条の二第一項 → 国民年金法 第三十七条の二第一項 (Article 37-2, paragraph (1)), art-37-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-pension-act/art-37-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334AC0000000141/art-37-2/par-1 - art-6-4/par-1: 法第四十九条第一項 → 国民年金法 第四十九条第一項 (Article 49, paragraph (1)), art-49/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-pension-act/art-49/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334AC0000000141/art-49/par-1 --- ## Sources - claude-opus-5-5 — English title of a law in this collection, written for this site, written 2026-11-05 - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 国民年金法施行令 — the text in force from 2026-10-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/334CO0000000184/20261001_508CO0000000226), retrieved 2026-11-04 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch national-pension-act-enforcement-order-20261104T155001-006, translated 2026-11-05 - claude-sonnet-5-5, corrected on review by claude-opus-5-5 — Machine translation corrected on review, batch national-pension-act-enforcement-order-20261104T155001-006, translated 2026-11-05 - This site's parser, version 224 — 国民年金法施行令 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-04