# 厚生年金保険法 / Employees' Pension Insurance Act — 第七十三条の二 (Article 73-2) - 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: 第七十三条の二 (Article 73-2) — address `art-73-2` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-73-2 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-73-2 - 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. --- ### 第七十三条の二 art-73-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-73-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-73-2 **第一項** 被保険者又は被保険者であつた者が、自己の故意の犯罪行為若しくは重大な過失により、又は正当な理由がなくて療養に関する指示に従わないことにより、障害若しくは死亡若しくはこれらの原因となつた事故を生ぜしめ、若しくはその障害の程度を増進させ、又はその回復を妨げたときは、保険給付の全部又は一部を行なわないことができる。 art-73-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-73-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-73-2/par-1 If an insured or former insured has brought about their disability, death, or an accident constituting the direct cause thereof, or has worsen the severity of their disability or hindered the recovery thereof, through an intentional criminal act, gross negligence, or a failure to comply with medical instructions that is without reasonable grounds, it is permissible not to pay insurance benefits in whole or in part. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 厚生年金保険法 第百条の十第一項第二十号（機構への事務の委託） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-100-10/par-1/item-20 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-100-10/par-1/item-20 - 厚生年金保険法 附則第八条第七項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3631-61/art-8/par-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3631-61/art-8/par-7 --- ## 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