# 国民年金法 / National Pension Act — 第四十一条 (Article 41)

- Law: 国民年金法 (National Pension Act), 昭和三十四年法律第百四十一号
- English title "National Pension Act": Ministry of Justice translation database, which lists the title
- 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: 第四十一条 (Article 41)（支給停止） — address `art-41`
- Text in force since: 2026-10-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/national-pension-act/art-41
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/334AC0000000141/art-41
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### 第四十一条（支給停止） — Suspension of Payment
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<sup>art-41 · https://japanlaw.org/en/national-pension-act/art-41 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334AC0000000141/art-41</sup>

  **第一項**  遺族基礎年金は、当該被保険者又は被保険者であつた者の死亡について、労働基準法の規定による遺族補償が行われるべきものであるときは、死亡日から六年間、その支給を停止する。
  <sup>art-41/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/national-pension-act/art-41/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334AC0000000141/art-41/par-1</sup>
  Where compensation for surviving family under the provisions of the Labor Standards Act is to be paid in respect of the death of the insured person or the person who had been an insured person concerned, payment of the survivors' basic pension is suspended for six years from the date of death.
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  **第二項**  子に対する遺族基礎年金は、配偶者が遺族基礎年金の受給権を有するとき（配偶者に対する遺族基礎年金が第二十条の二第一項若しくは第二項又は次条第一項の規定によりその支給を停止されているときを除く。）、又は生計を同じくするその子の父若しくは母があるときは、その間、その支給を停止する。
  <sup>art-41/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/national-pension-act/art-41/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334AC0000000141/art-41/par-2</sup>
  Payment of a survivors' basic pension to a child is suspended during the period in which the spouse has the right to receive a survivors' basic pension (excluding a case where payment of the survivors' basic pension to the spouse is suspended under Article 20-2, paragraph (1) or (2), or under paragraph (1) of the following Article), or in which there is a father or mother of the child who shares a livelihood with the child.
  <sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- art-41/par-2: 第二十条の二第一項 → 国民年金法 第二十条の二第一項 (Article 20-2, paragraph (1)), art-20-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-pension-act/art-20-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334AC0000000141/art-20-2/par-1
- art-41/par-2: 第二項 → 国民年金法 第二十条の二第二項 (Article 20-2, paragraph (2)), art-20-2/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-pension-act/art-20-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334AC0000000141/art-20-2/par-2
- art-41/par-2: 次条第一項 → 国民年金法 第四十一条の二第一項 (Article 41-2, paragraph (1)), art-41-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-pension-act/art-41-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334AC0000000141/art-41-2/par-1

## Cited by

6 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction.

- 厚生年金保険法 附則第一条第二項第三号（施行期日等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3551-82/art-1/par-2/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3551-82/art-1/par-2/item-3
- 国民年金法 第三十六条の二第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-pension-act/art-36-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334AC0000000141/art-36-2/par-2
- 国民年金法 第五十二条第一項（支給停止） — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-pension-act/art-52/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334AC0000000141/art-52/par-1
- 国民年金法 第五十二条の二第三項（支給要件） — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-pension-act/art-52-2/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334AC0000000141/art-52-2/par-3
- 国民年金法 第百九条の十第一項第十四号（機構への事務の委託） — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-pension-act/art-109-10/par-1/item-14 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334AC0000000141/art-109-10/par-1/item-14
- 国民年金法 附則第一条第二項第三号（施行期日等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-pension-act/suppl-3551-82/art-1/par-2/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334AC0000000141/suppl-3551-82/art-1/par-2/item-3

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## Sources

- e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 国民年金法 — the text in force from 2026-10-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/334AC0000000141/20261001_507AC0000000074), retrieved 2026-10-05
- Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — 国民年金法 — its English title as the Ministry of Justice's translation database lists it (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/1772), retrieved 2026-09-18
- claude-sonnet-5 — Machine translation, batch national-pension-act-20260923T214903-011, translated 2026-09-24
- This site's parser, version 211 — 国民年金法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-05
