# 厚生年金保険法 / Employees' Pension Insurance Act — 第七十三条 (Article 73) - 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: 第七十三条 (Article 73) — address `art-73` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-73 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-73 - 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. --- ### 第七十三条 art-73 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-73 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-73 **第一項** 被保険者又は被保険者であつた者が、故意に、障害又はその直接の原因となつた事故を生ぜしめたときは、当該障害を支給事由とする障害厚生年金又は障害手当金は、支給しない。 art-73/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-73/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-73/par-1 If an insured or former insured person has intentionally brought about their disability or an accident constituting the direct cause thereof, no employees' disability pension or disability allowance that has that disability as the grounds for payment is paid. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 厚生年金保険法 第百条の十第一項第十九号（機構への事務の委託） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-100-10/par-1/item-19 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-100-10/par-1/item-19 --- ## 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