# 確定拠出年金法 / Defined Contribution Pension Act — 第四十一条 (Article 41) - Law: 確定拠出年金法 (Defined Contribution Pension Act), 平成十三年法律第八十八号 - English title "Defined Contribution Pension 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: 第四十一条 (Article 41)（遺族の範囲及び順位） — address `art-41` - Text in force since: 2026-04-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-41 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-41 - 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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第四十一条（遺族の範囲及び順位） — (Scope and Order of the Surviving Family Members) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-41 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-41 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-41 **第一項** 死亡一時金を受けることができる遺族は、次に掲げる者とする。ただし、死亡した者が、死亡する前に、配偶者（届出をしていないが、死亡した者の死亡の当時事実上婚姻関係と同様の事情にあった者を含む。以下この条において同じ。）、子、父母、孫、祖父母又は兄弟姉妹のうちから死亡一時金を受ける者を指定してその旨を企業型記録関連運営管理機関等に対して表示したときは、その表示したところによるものとする。 art-41/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-41/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-41/par-1 The surviving family member who is eligible to receive a lump-sum death benefit is to be among the following persons; provided, however, that this does not apply if the deceased person had designated the family member who is to receive the lump-sum death benefit from among the person's spouse (including a person with whom notification of marriage has not been made, but who has been in a de facto marital relationship with the deceased person; hereinafter the same applies in this Article), children, father, mother, grandchildren, grandfather, grandmother, or siblings and had indicated that family member to the corporate-type pension plan records-related operational management institution, etc. before the person's death: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **一** 配偶者 art-41/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-41/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-41/par-1/item-1 spouse; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **二** 子、父母、孫、祖父母及び兄弟姉妹であって死亡した者の死亡の当時主としてその収入によって生計を維持していたもの art-41/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-41/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-41/par-1/item-2 children, parents, grandchildren, grandparents, and siblings, who had maintained their livelihood mainly on the income of the deceased person as of the time of the person's death; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **三** 前号に掲げる者のほか、死亡した者の死亡の当時主としてその収入によって生計を維持していた親族 art-41/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-41/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-41/par-1/item-3 in addition to the persons set forth in the preceding item, relatives who had maintained their livelihood mainly on the income of the deceased person as of the time of the person's death; and Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "in addition to the persons set forth in the preceding items, relatives who had maintained their livelihood mainly on the income of the deceased person as of the time of the person's death; and" — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4371/tb **四** 子、父母、孫、祖父母及び兄弟姉妹であって第二号に該当しないもの art-41/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-41/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-41/par-1/item-4 children, parents, grandchildren, grandfather, grandmother, and siblings, who do not fall under item (ii). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項本文の場合において、死亡一時金を受けることができる遺族の順位は、同項各号の順位により、同項第二号及び第四号に掲げる者のうちにあっては同号に掲げる順位による。この場合において、父母については養父母、実父母の順とし、祖父母については養父母の養父母、養父母の実父母、実父母の養父母、実父母の実父母の順とする。 art-41/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-41/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-41/par-2 In the case referred to in the main clause of the preceding paragraph, the order of the surviving family member who is eligible to receive the lump-sum death benefit is based on the order of the items of that paragraph, and for the persons set forth in items (ii) and (iv) of that paragraph, it is based on the order in which the persons are listed in those items. In this case, the order of parents is to be the order of adoptive parents, followed by natural parents, and the order of grandparents is to be the order of adoptive parents of adoptive parents, followed by natural parents of adoptive parents, adoptive parents of natural parents, and then natural parents of natural parents. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 前項の規定により死亡一時金を受けることができる遺族に同順位者が二人以上あるときは、死亡一時金は、その人数によって等分して支給する。 art-41/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-41/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-41/par-3 If there are two or more surviving family members who are eligible to receive a lump-sum death benefit pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph and who are in the same rank of order, the lump-sum death benefit is paid to them by equally dividing the benefit by that number of persons. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第四項** 死亡一時金を受けることができる遺族がないときは、死亡した者の個人別管理資産額に相当する金銭は、死亡した者の相続財産とみなす。 art-41/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-41/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-41/par-4 If there is no surviving family member who is eligible to receive a lump-sum death benefit, money in an amount equivalent to the amount of assets managed per individual relating to the deceased person is deemed to be an estate of the deceased person. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第五項** 死亡一時金を受けることができる者によるその権利の裁定の請求が死亡した者の死亡の後五年間ないときは、死亡一時金を受けることができる遺族はないものとみなして、前項の規定を適用する。 art-41/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-41/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-41/par-5 If a person who is eligible to receive a lump-sum death benefit does not file a claim for a ruling to confirm the right to receive the benefit within five years after the death of the deceased person, the provisions of the preceding paragraph apply by deeming that there is no surviving family member who is eligible to receive the lump-sum death benefit. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-41/par-1: この条 → 確定拠出年金法 第四十一条 (Article 41), art-41 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-41 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-41 - art-41/par-1/item-3: 前号 → 確定拠出年金法 第四十一条第一項第二号 (Article 41, paragraph (1), item (ii)), art-41/par-1/item-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-41/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-41/par-1/item-2 - art-41/par-1/item-4: 第二号 → 確定拠出年金法 第四十一条第一項第二号 (Article 41, paragraph (1), item (ii)), art-41/par-1/item-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-41/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-41/par-1/item-2 - art-41/par-2: 前項 → 確定拠出年金法 第四十一条第一項 (Article 41, paragraph (1)), art-41/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-41/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-41/par-1 - art-41/par-2: 同項第二号 → 確定拠出年金法 第四十一条第一項第二号 (Article 41, paragraph (1), item (ii)), art-41/par-1/item-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-41/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-41/par-1/item-2 - art-41/par-2: 第四号 → 確定拠出年金法 第四十一条第一項第四号 (Article 41, paragraph (1), item (iv)), art-41/par-1/item-4 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-41/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-41/par-1/item-4 - art-41/par-3: 前項 → 確定拠出年金法 第四十一条第二項 (Article 41, paragraph (2)), art-41/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-41/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-41/par-2 - art-41/par-5: 前項 → 確定拠出年金法 第四十一条第四項 (Article 41, paragraph (4)), art-41/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-41/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-41/par-4 ## Cited by 7 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 確定拠出年金法 第四十一条第一項（遺族の範囲及び順位） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-41/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-41/par-1 - 確定拠出年金法 第四十一条第一項第三号（遺族の範囲及び順位） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-41/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-41/par-1/item-3 - 確定拠出年金法 第四十一条第一項第四号（遺族の範囲及び順位） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-41/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-41/par-1/item-4 - 確定拠出年金法 第四十一条第二項（遺族の範囲及び順位） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-41/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-41/par-2 - 確定拠出年金法 第四十一条第三項（遺族の範囲及び順位） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-41/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-41/par-3 - 確定拠出年金法 第四十一条第五項（遺族の範囲及び順位） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-41/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-41/par-5 - 確定拠出年金法 第四十二条第一項（欠格） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-42/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-42/par-1 --- ## Sources - claude-opus-5-5 — Corrections to the Ministry of Justice's English of the Defined Contribution Pension Act, written 2026-10-19 - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 確定拠出年金法 — the text in force from 2026-04-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/413AC0000000088/20260401_507AC0000000074), retrieved 2026-10-19 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Defined Contribution Pension Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4371/tb), retrieved 2026-10-19 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Defined Contribution Pension Act (確定拠出年金法), Article 41, paragraph (1), item (iii) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4371/tb), retrieved 2026-10-19 - This site's parser, version 203 — 確定拠出年金法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-19