# 厚生年金保険法 / Employees' Pension Insurance Act — 第四十八条 (Article 48) - 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: 第四十八条 (Article 48)（障害厚生年金の併給の調整） — address `art-48` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-48 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-48 - 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. --- ### 第四十八条（障害厚生年金の併給の調整） — (Adjustment for Combined Benefits under Employees' Disability Pensions) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-48 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-48 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-48 **第一項** 障害厚生年金（その権利を取得した当時から引き続き障害等級の一級又は二級に該当しない程度の障害の状態にある受給権者に係るものを除く。以下この条、次条、第五十二条第四項、第五十二条の二及び第五十四条第二項ただし書において同じ。）の受給権者に対して更に障害厚生年金を支給すべき事由が生じたときは、前後の障害を併合した障害の程度による障害厚生年金を支給する。 art-48/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-48/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-48/par-1 If grounds have occurred based on which the beneficiary of an employees' disability pension (excluding the employees' disability pension of a beneficiary who has continuously had a disability of a degree of severity that is not classified as Grade 1 or Grade 2 of the disability grades from the time when the person acquired the right to receive benefits; the same applies hereinafter in this and the following Article, Article 52, paragraph (4), Article 52-2, and the proviso to Article 54, paragraph (2)) is to be paid further employees' disability pension, the employees' disability pension is paid in accordance with the severity of the beneficiary's disabilities stemming from a combination of the beneficiary's previous and subsequent disabilities. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "If grounds have occurred based on which the beneficiary of an employees' disability pension (excluding the employees' disability pension of a beneficiary who has continuously had a disability of a degree of severity that is not classified as Grade 1 or Grade 2 of the disability grades from the time when the person acquired the right to receive benefits; the same applies hereinafter in this and the following Article, Article 52, paragraph (4), Article 52-2, and the proviso to Article 54-2) is to be paid further employees' disability pension, the employees' disability pension is paid in accordance with the severity of the beneficiary's disabilities stemming from a combination of the beneficiary's previous and subsequent disabilities." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3554/tb **第二項** 障害厚生年金の受給権者が前項の規定により前後の障害を併合した障害の程度による障害厚生年金の受給権を取得したときは、従前の障害厚生年金の受給権は、消滅する。 art-48/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-48/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-48/par-2 If the beneficiary of an employees' disability pension has, pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, acquired a right to benefits under an employees' disability pension for the severity of the beneficiary's disabilities stemming from a combination of the beneficiary's previous and subsequent disabilities, the beneficiary's previous right to benefits under the employees' disability pension ceases to exist. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-48/par-1: この条 → 厚生年金保険法 第四十八条 (Article 48), art-48 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-48 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-48 - art-48/par-1: 次条 → 厚生年金保険法 第四十九条 (Article 49), art-49 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-49 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-49 - art-48/par-1: 第五十二条第四項 → 厚生年金保険法 第五十二条第四項 (Article 52, paragraph (4)), art-52/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-52/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-52/par-4 - art-48/par-1: 第五十二条の二 → 厚生年金保険法 第五十二条の二 (Article 52-2), art-52-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-52-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-52-2 - art-48/par-1: 第五十四条第二項 → 厚生年金保険法 第五十四条第二項 (Article 54, paragraph (2)), art-54/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-54/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-54/par-2 - art-48/par-2: 前項 → 厚生年金保険法 第四十八条第一項 (Article 48, paragraph (1)), art-48/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-48/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-48/par-1 ## Cited by 11 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 厚生年金保険法 第四十八条第一項（障害厚生年金の併給の調整） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-48/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-48/par-1 - 厚生年金保険法 第四十八条第二項（障害厚生年金の併給の調整） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-48/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-48/par-2 - 厚生年金保険法 第四十九条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-49/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-49/par-1 - 厚生年金保険法 第四十九条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-49/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-49/par-2 - 厚生年金保険法 第五十条第四項（障害厚生年金の額） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-50/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-50/par-4 - 厚生年金保険法 第五十一条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-51/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-51/par-1 - 厚生年金保険法 第五十三条第一項（失権） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-53/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-53/par-1 - 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 附則第七十八条第八項（旧厚生年金保険法による給付） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3601-34/art-78/par-8 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3601-34/art-78/par-8 - 厚生年金保険法 附則第八十七条第九項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3601-34/art-87/par-9 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3601-34/art-87/par-9 --- ## Sources - claude-opus-5-5 — Corrections to the Ministry of Justice's English of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act, written 2026-10-13 - 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 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Employees' Pension Insurance Act (厚生年金保険法), Article 48, paragraph (1) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (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