# 厚生年金保険法施行令 / Order for Enforcement of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act — 第三条の二 (Article 3-2)

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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
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- Provision: 第三条の二 (Article 3-2)（未支給の保険給付を受けるべき者の順位） — address `art-3-2`
- Text in force since: 2026-10-01
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### 第三条の二（未支給の保険給付を受けるべき者の順位） — Order of Persons Entitled to Receive Unpaid Insurance Benefits
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>art-3-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act-enforcement-order/art-3-2</sup>

**第一項**  法第三十七条第四項に規定する未支給の保険給付を受けるべき者の順位は、死亡した者の配偶者、子（死亡した者が遺族厚生年金の受給権者である夫であつた場合における被保険者又は被保険者であつた者の子であつてその者の死亡によつて遺族厚生年金の支給の停止が解除されたものを含む。）、父母、孫、祖父母、兄弟姉妹及びこれらの者以外の三親等内の親族の順序とする。
<sup>art-3-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act-enforcement-order/art-3-2/par-1</sup>
The order of persons entitled to receive unpaid insurance benefits prescribed in Article 37, paragraph (4) of the Act is the following order: the spouse of the deceased person, children (including, where the deceased person was a husband who was a beneficiary of a survivors' employees' pension, a child of an insured person or a person who was an insured person for whom payment of the survivors' employees' pension has ceased to be suspended by the death of the deceased person), parents, grandchildren, grandparents, siblings, and relatives within the third degree of kinship other than these persons.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- art-3-2/par-1: 法第三十七条第四項 → 厚生年金保険法 第三十七条第四項 (Article 37, paragraph (4)), art-37/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-37/par-4 (e-Gov law ID 329AC0000000115)

## Cited by

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

- 厚生年金保険法施行令 附則第二項第一号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act-enforcement-order/suppl-3552-282/par-2/item-1
- 国民年金法施行令 附則第二項第一号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-pension-act-enforcement-order/suppl-3552-282/par-2/item-1 (e-Gov law ID 334CO0000000184)

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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-20261106T164949-002, translated 2026-11-07
- claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch employees-pension-insurance-act-enforcement-order-20261106T164949-003, 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
