# 厚生年金保険法 / Employees' Pension Insurance Act — 第四十七条 (Article 47) - 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: 第四十七条 (Article 47)（障害厚生年金の受給権者） — address `art-47` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-47 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-47 - 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. --- ### 第四十七条（障害厚生年金の受給権者） — (Beneficiary of Employees' Disability Pensions) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-47 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-47 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-47 **第一項** 障害厚生年金は、疾病にかかり、又は負傷し、その疾病又は負傷及びこれらに起因する疾病（以下「傷病」という。）につき初めて医師又は歯科医師の診療を受けた日（以下「初診日」という。）において被保険者であつた者が、当該初診日から起算して一年六月を経過した日（その期間内にその傷病が治つた日（その症状が固定し治療の効果が期待できない状態に至つた日を含む。以下同じ。）があるときは、その日とし、以下「障害認定日」という。）において、その傷病により次項に規定する障害等級に該当する程度の障害の状態にある場合に、その障害の程度に応じて、その者に支給する。ただし、当該傷病に係る初診日の前日において、当該初診日の属する月の前々月までに国民年金の被保険者期間があり、かつ、当該被保険者期間に係る保険料納付済期間と保険料免除期間とを合算した期間が当該被保険者期間の三分の二に満たないときは、この限りでない。 art-47/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-47/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-47/par-1 If a person who has contracted an illness or suffered an injury and who was an insured on the day on which the person underwent the first medical examination with a doctor or dentist in connection for that illness, injury, or for an additional illness caused by that illness or injury (those illnesses or injuries are hereinafter referred to as "injury or illness") (that day is hereinafter referred to as the "day of initial examination") has a disability of a degree of severity that is classified as any of the disability grades provided for in the following paragraph due to that injury or illness, as of the day after the day calculated as marking the passage of 1 year and 6 months' time since the day of initial examination (or, if the injury or illness has healed on any day within this period (including a day on which the symptoms thereof have stabilized and circumstances are such as that no curative effect is expected; the same applies hereinafter), as of that day; any day defined above is hereinafter referred to as the "day of disability assessment"), an employees' disability pension is paid to the person in accordance with the severity of the person's disability; provided, however, that this does not apply if, as of the day before the day of initial examination for the relevant injury or illness, the person had had an insured period under a National Pension that lasted up until the month two months before the month that includes the day of initial examination, and further, the total sum of the premium-paid period and the premium-exemption period does not comprise at least two-thirds of the relevant insured period. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 障害等級は、障害の程度に応じて重度のものから一級、二級及び三級とし、各級の障害の状態は、政令で定める。 art-47/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-47/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-47/par-2 The disability grade is classified in order of severity from Grade 1 to 3, with Grade 1 being the severest, and the description of the disability for each grade is provided by Cabinet Order. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-47/par-1: 次項 → 厚生年金保険法 第四十七条第二項 (Article 47, paragraph (2)), art-47/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-47/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-47/par-2 ## Cited by 35 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 厚生年金保険法 第四十四条第一項（加給年金額） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-44/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-44/par-1 - 厚生年金保険法 第四十七条第一項（障害厚生年金の受給権者） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-47/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-47/par-1 - 厚生年金保険法 第四十七条の二第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-47-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-47-2/par-1 - 厚生年金保険法 第四十七条の二第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-47-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-47-2/par-2 - 厚生年金保険法 第四十七条の二第三項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-47-2/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-47-2/par-3 - 厚生年金保険法 第四十七条の三第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-47-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-47-3/par-2 - 厚生年金保険法 第五十二条第五項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-52/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-52/par-5 - 厚生年金保険法 第五十四条第三項（支給停止） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-54/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-54/par-3 - 厚生年金保険法 第五十五条第二項（障害手当金の受給権者） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-55/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-55/par-2 - 厚生年金保険法 第百条の十第一項第十二号（機構への事務の委託） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-100-10/par-1/item-12 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-100-10/par-1/item-12 - 厚生年金保険法 附則第七条の二第一項（他の被保険者の種別に係る被保険者であつた期間の確認等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3291-115/art-7-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3291-115/art-7-2/par-1 - 厚生年金保険法 附則第七条の二第二項（他の被保険者の種別に係る被保険者であつた期間の確認等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3291-115/art-7-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3291-115/art-7-2/par-2 - 厚生年金保険法 附則第四十条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3601-34/art-40/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3601-34/art-40/par-1 - 厚生年金保険法 附則第四十八条第六項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3601-34/art-48/par-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3601-34/art-48/par-6 - 厚生年金保険法 附則第六十四条第一項（障害厚生年金等の支給要件の特例） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3601-34/art-64/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3601-34/art-64/par-1 - 厚生年金保険法 附則第六十五条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3601-34/art-65/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3601-34/art-65/par-1 - 厚生年金保険法 附則第六十七条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3601-34/art-67/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3601-34/art-67/par-1 - 厚生年金保険法 附則第六十八条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3601-34/art-68/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3601-34/art-68/par-1 - 厚生年金保険法 附則第六十九条第一項（障害厚生年金の併給の調整の特例） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3601-34/art-69/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3601-34/art-69/par-1 - 厚生年金保険法 附則第十四条第一項（障害厚生年金の支給に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-4061-95/art-14/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-4061-95/art-14/par-1 - 厚生年金保険法 附則第十四条第二項（障害厚生年金の支給に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-4061-95/art-14/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-4061-95/art-14/par-2 - 厚生年金保険法 附則第十四条第三項（障害厚生年金の支給に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-4061-95/art-14/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-4061-95/art-14/par-3 - 厚生年金保険法 附則第九条第二項（障害厚生年金等の支給要件の特例） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-4081-82/art-9/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-4081-82/art-9/par-2 - 厚生年金保険法 附則第九条第三項（障害厚生年金等の支給要件の特例） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-4081-82/art-9/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-4081-82/art-9/par-3 - 厚生年金保険法 附則第十条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-4081-82/art-10/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-4081-82/art-10/par-1 - 厚生年金保険法 附則第十一条第三項（遺族厚生年金の支給要件の特例） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-4081-82/art-11/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-4081-82/art-11/par-3 - 厚生年金保険法 附則第十一条第四項（遺族厚生年金の支給要件の特例） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-4081-82/art-11/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-4081-82/art-11/par-4 - 厚生年金保険法 附則第十八条第二項（障害厚生年金の支給要件の特例） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-4241-63/art-18/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-4241-63/art-18/par-2 - 厚生年金保険法 附則第十八条第三項（障害厚生年金の支給要件の特例） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-4241-63/art-18/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-4241-63/art-18/par-3 - 厚生年金保険法 附則第十九条第一項（初診日が施行日前にある傷病による障害等の場合における経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-4241-63/art-19/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-4241-63/art-19/par-1 - 国民年金法 第三十条の二第四項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-pension-act/art-30-2/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334AC0000000141/art-30-2/par-4 - 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