# 厚生年金保険法 / Employees' Pension Insurance Act — 第七十四条 (Article 74) - 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: 第七十四条 (Article 74) — address `art-74` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-74 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-74 - 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. --- ### 第七十四条 art-74 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-74 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-74 **第一項** 障害厚生年金の受給権者が、故意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、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、第五十二条第一項の規定による改定を行わず、又はその者の障害の程度が現に該当する障害等級以下の障害等級に該当するものとして、同項の規定による改定を行うことができる。 art-74/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-74/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-74/par-1 If the beneficiary of an employees' disability pension has worsen the severity of their disability or hindered the recovery thereof, intentionally, through gross negligence, or due to a failure to comply with medical instructions that is without reasonable grounds, it is permissible not to effect the revision under the provisions of Article 52 paragraph (1); and it is permissible to consider the degree of severity of that person's disability to be classified as a lower disability grade than the disability grade it is actually classified as in effecting a revision under that paragraph. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-74/par-1: 第五十二条第一項 → 厚生年金保険法 第五十二条第一項 (Article 52, paragraph (1)), art-52/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-52/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-52/par-1 ## 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二十一号（機構への事務の委託） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-100-10/par-1/item-21 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-100-10/par-1/item-21 --- ## 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