# 厚生年金保険法施行令 / Order for Enforcement of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act — 第三条の十二 (Article 3-12)

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- Law: 厚生年金保険法施行令 (Order for Enforcement of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act), 昭和二十九年政令第百十号
- English title "Order for Enforcement of the Employees' Pension Insurance 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: 第三条の十二 (Article 3-12)（遺族厚生年金に関する事務の特例） — address `art-3-12`
- Text in force since: 2026-10-01
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### 第三条の十二（遺族厚生年金に関する事務の特例） — Special Provisions on Affairs Relating to Survivors' Employees' Pension
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>art-3-12 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act-enforcement-order/art-3-12</sup>

**第一項**  遺族厚生年金（法第五十八条第一項第二号又は第三号に該当することにより支給されるものに限る。）に係る死亡した被保険者又は被保険者であつた者が死亡日の属する月までに同項第二号に規定する初診日又は同項第三号に規定する障害厚生年金の支給事由となつた障害に係る傷病の初診日における被保険者の種別に係る被保険者期間を有しない場合においては、当該遺族厚生年金の支給に関する事務は、次の各号に掲げる場合に応じ、当該各号に定める被保険者の種別に応じて、法第二条の五第一項各号に定める者が行う。
<sup>art-3-12/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act-enforcement-order/art-3-12/par-1</sup>
Where a deceased insured person or person who was an insured person in relation to a survivors' employees' pension (limited to one paid by reason of falling under Article 58, paragraph (1), item (ii) or (iii) of the Act) has no insured period relating to the insured category on the day of initial examination prescribed in item (ii) of that paragraph or on the day of initial examination for the injury or illness relating to the disability that was the ground for payment of the disability employees' pension prescribed in item (iii) of that paragraph, by the month that includes the day of death, the affairs relating to the payment of that survivors' employees' pension are to be performed by the persons specified in each item of Article 2-5, paragraph (1) of the Act, in accordance with the insured category specified in each of the following items for the case listed in that item.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

**一**  法第五十八条第一項第二号に規定する初診日又は同項第三号に規定する障害厚生年金の支給事由となつた障害に係る傷病の初診日の属する月において被保険者の種別に変更があつた場合（次号に掲げる場合を除く。）　変更後の被保険者の種別（二回以上被保険者の種別に変更があつた場合は、最後の被保険者の種別）
<sup>art-3-12/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act-enforcement-order/art-3-12/par-1/item-1</sup>
where there has been a change in the insured category in the month that includes the day of initial examination prescribed in Article 58, paragraph (1), item (ii) of the Act or the day of initial examination for the injury or illness relating to the disability that was the ground for payment of the disability employees' pension prescribed in item (iii) of that paragraph (excluding the case listed in the following item): the insured category after the change (where there has been a change in the insured category two or more times, the last insured category);
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**二**  法第五十八条第一項第二号に規定する初診日又は同項第三号に規定する障害厚生年金の支給事由となつた障害に係る傷病の初診日の属する月が国民年金の被保険者期間（第二号被保険者期間を除く。）である場合　当該死亡した被保険者又は被保険者であつた者が有する被保険者期間に係る被保険者の種別
<sup>art-3-12/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act-enforcement-order/art-3-12/par-1/item-2</sup>
where the month that includes the day of initial examination prescribed in Article 58, paragraph (1), item (ii) of the Act or the day of initial examination for the injury or illness relating to the disability that was the ground for payment of the disability employees' pension prescribed in item (iii) of that paragraph is an insured period under the National Pension (excluding the period as a category 2 insured person): the insured category relating to the insured period that the deceased insured person or person who was an insured person has.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- art-3-12/par-1: 法第五十八条第一項第二号 → 厚生年金保険法 第五十八条第一項第二号 (Article 58, paragraph (1), item (ii)), art-58/par-1/item-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-58/par-1/item-2 (e-Gov law ID 329AC0000000115)
- art-3-12/par-1: 第三号 → 厚生年金保険法 第五十八条第一項第三号 (Article 58, paragraph (1), item (iii)), art-58/par-1/item-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-58/par-1/item-3 (e-Gov law ID 329AC0000000115)
- art-3-12/par-1: 法第二条の五第一項 → 厚生年金保険法 第二条の五第一項 (Article 2-5, paragraph (1)), art-2-5/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-2-5/par-1 (e-Gov law ID 329AC0000000115)
- art-3-12/par-1/item-1: 法第五十八条第一項第二号 → 厚生年金保険法 第五十八条第一項第二号 (Article 58, paragraph (1), item (ii)), art-58/par-1/item-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-58/par-1/item-2 (e-Gov law ID 329AC0000000115)
- art-3-12/par-1/item-1: 同項第三号 → 厚生年金保険法 第五十八条第一項第三号 (Article 58, paragraph (1), item (iii)), art-58/par-1/item-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-58/par-1/item-3 (e-Gov law ID 329AC0000000115)
- art-3-12/par-1/item-1: 次号 → 厚生年金保険法施行令 第三条の十二第一項第二号 (Article 3-12, paragraph (1), item (ii)), art-3-12/par-1/item-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act-enforcement-order/art-3-12/par-1/item-2
- art-3-12/par-1/item-2: 法第五十八条第一項第二号 → 厚生年金保険法 第五十八条第一項第二号 (Article 58, paragraph (1), item (ii)), art-58/par-1/item-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-58/par-1/item-2 (e-Gov law ID 329AC0000000115)
- art-3-12/par-1/item-2: 同項第三号 → 厚生年金保険法 第五十八条第一項第三号 (Article 58, paragraph (1), item (iii)), art-58/par-1/item-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-58/par-1/item-3 (e-Gov law ID 329AC0000000115)

## Cited by

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

- 厚生年金保険法施行令 第三条の十の二第一項第二号（障害厚生年金等に関する事務の特例） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act-enforcement-order/art-3-10-2/par-1/item-2
- 厚生年金保険法施行令 第三条の十二第一項第一号（遺族厚生年金に関する事務の特例） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act-enforcement-order/art-3-12/par-1/item-1
- 厚生年金保険法施行令 第三条の十三の十一第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act-enforcement-order/art-3-13-11/par-2
- 厚生年金保険法施行令 附則第二条第一項（厚生年金保険法施行令の一部改正に伴う経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act-enforcement-order/suppl-4142-43/art-2/par-1

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## Sources

- claude-opus-5-5 — English title of a law in this collection, written for this site, written 2026-11-06
- e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 厚生年金保険法施行令 — the text in force from 2026-10-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/329CO0000000110/20261001_508CO0000000276), retrieved 2026-11-06
- claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch employees-pension-insurance-act-enforcement-order-20261106T164949-006, translated 2026-11-07
- This site's parser, version 229 — 厚生年金保険法施行令 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-06
