# 厚生年金保険法 / Employees' Pension Insurance Act — 第四十条 (Article 40) - Law: 厚生年金保険法 (Employees' Pension Insurance Act), 昭和二十九年法律第百十五号 - English title "Employees' Pension Insurance 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: 第四十条 (Article 40)（損害賠償請求権） — address `art-40` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-40 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-40 - 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. Every English rendering below is a translation and says which kind: the Ministry of Justice's translation, or this site's machine translation, whose model and date the Sources list names. They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第四十条（損害賠償請求権） — (Right to Claim Compensation for Loss or Damage) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-40 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-40 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-40 **第一項** 政府等は、事故が第三者の行為によつて生じた場合において、保険給付をしたときは、その給付の価額の限度で、受給権者が第三者に対して有する損害賠償の請求権を取得する。 art-40/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-40/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-40/par-1 If an accident has been caused by the actions of a third party and the government or an implementing organization has paid insurance benefits, it acquires the beneficiary's right to claim compensation for loss or damage against the third party, up to the value of those benefits. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の場合において、受給権者が、当該第三者から同一の事由について損害賠償を受けたときは、政府等は、その価額の限度で、保険給付をしないことができる。 art-40/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-40/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-40/par-2 In a case as referred to in the preceding paragraph, if a beneficiary has been compensated for loss or damage by the third party for the same reason, the government or the implementing organization may withhold insurance benefits, up to the value of that compensation. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-40/par-2: 前項 → 厚生年金保険法 第四十条第一項 (Article 40, paragraph (1)), art-40/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-40/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-40/par-1 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 厚生年金保険法 第三十二条第一項（保険給付の種類） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-32/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-32/par-1 - 厚生年金保険法 第四十条第二項（損害賠償請求権） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-40/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-40/par-2 - 厚生年金保険法 第七十八条の二十五第一項（損害賠償請求権の特例） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-78-25/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-78-25/par-1 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 厚生年金保険法 — the text in force from 2026-10-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/329AC0000000115/20261001_507AC0000000074), retrieved 2026-10-13 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Employees' Pension Insurance Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3554/tb), retrieved 2026-10-13 - This site's parser, version 190 — 厚生年金保険法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-13