# 国民年金法 / National Pension Act — 第四十一条の二 (Article 41-2)

- 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: 第四十一条の二 (Article 41-2) — address `art-41-2`
- Text in force since: 2026-10-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/national-pension-act/art-41-2
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/334AC0000000141/art-41-2
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### 第四十一条の二
<sup>art-41-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/national-pension-act/art-41-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334AC0000000141/art-41-2</sup>

  **第一項**  配偶者に対する遺族基礎年金は、その者の所在が一年以上明らかでないときは、遺族基礎年金の受給権を有する子の申請によつて、その所在が明らかでなくなつた時に遡つて、その支給を停止する。
  <sup>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</sup>
  Where the whereabouts of a spouse have been unknown for one year or more, payment of the survivors' basic pension to the spouse is suspended, upon the application of a child having the right to receive a survivors' basic pension, retroactively to the time when the whereabouts became unknown.
  <sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

  **第二項**  配偶者は、いつでも、前項の規定による支給の停止の解除を申請することができる。
  <sup>art-41-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/national-pension-act/art-41-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334AC0000000141/art-41-2/par-2</sup>
  The spouse may apply at any time for the cancellation of the suspension of payment under the preceding paragraph.
  <sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- art-41-2/par-2: 前項 → 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

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

- 国民年金法 第四十一条第二項（支給停止） — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-pension-act/art-41/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334AC0000000141/art-41/par-2
- 国民年金法 第四十一条の二第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-pension-act/art-41-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334AC0000000141/art-41-2/par-2
- 国民年金法 第百九条の四第一項第十三号（機構への厚生労働大臣の権限に係る事務の委任） — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-pension-act/art-109-4/par-1/item-13 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334AC0000000141/art-109-4/par-1/item-13
- 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 附則第三条第一項（母子年金及び準母子年金の額の改定） — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-pension-act/suppl-3391-87/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334AC0000000141/suppl-3391-87/art-3/par-1
- 国民年金法 附則第四条第二項（母子年金及び準母子年金の支給要件に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-pension-act/suppl-3391-87/art-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334AC0000000141/suppl-3391-87/art-4/par-2
- 国民年金法 附則第三条第一項（母子年金及び準母子年金の額の改定） — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-pension-act/suppl-3401-93/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334AC0000000141/suppl-3401-93/art-3/par-1
- 国民年金法 附則第四条第二項（母子年金及び準母子年金の支給要件に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-pension-act/suppl-3401-93/art-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334AC0000000141/suppl-3401-93/art-4/par-2

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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