# 厚生年金保険法 / Employees' Pension Insurance Act — 第五十三条 (Article 53) - 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: 第五十三条 (Article 53)（失権） — address `art-53` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-53 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-53 - 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. --- ### 第五十三条（失権） — (Loss of Rights) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-53 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-53 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-53 **第一項** 障害厚生年金の受給権は、第四十八条第二項の規定によつて消滅するほか、受給権者が次の各号のいずれかに該当するに至つたときは、消滅する。 art-53/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-53/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-53/par-1 In addition to the right to receive benefits from an employees' disability pension ceasing to exist pursuant to the provisions of Article 48, paragraph (2), this right ceases to exist if the beneficiary comes to fall under any of the following items: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **一** 死亡したとき。 art-53/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-53/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-53/par-1/item-1 the beneficiary has died; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **二** 障害等級に該当する程度の障害の状態にない者が、六十五歳に達したとき。ただし、六十五歳に達した日において、障害等級に該当する程度の障害の状態に該当しなくなつた日から起算して障害等級に該当する程度の障害の状態に該当することなく三年を経過していないときを除く。 art-53/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-53/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-53/par-1/item-2 the beneficiary who does not have a disability of a degree of severity that is classified as any disability grade has reached the age of 65; provided, however, that this is excluded if, as of the day on which the beneficiary has reached the age of 65, the beneficiary has not gone three years without having a disability of a degree of severity that is classified as any disability grade, counting from the day on which the person ceased to have a disability of a degree of severity that is classified as any disability grade; or Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **三** 障害等級に該当する程度の障害の状態に該当しなくなつた日から起算して障害等級に該当する程度の障害の状態に該当することなく三年を経過したとき。ただし、三年を経過した日において、当該受給権者が六十五歳未満であるときを除く。 art-53/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-53/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-53/par-1/item-3 the beneficiary has gone three years, counting from the day on which the beneficiary ceased to have a disability of a degree of severity that is classified as any disability grade, without having a disability of a degree of severity that is classified as any disability grade; provided, however, that this is excluded if the relevant beneficiary is not yet 65 years of age on the day that marks the passage of three years' time without a disability of that degree of severity. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-53/par-1: 第四十八条第二項 → 厚生年金保険法 第四十八条第二項 (Article 48, paragraph (2)), 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 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 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 - 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