# 厚生年金保険法 / Employees' Pension Insurance Act — 第七十六条 (Article 76) - 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: 第七十六条 (Article 76) — address `art-76` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-76 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-76 - 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. --- ### 第七十六条 art-76 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-76 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-76 **第一項** 遺族厚生年金は、被保険者又は被保険者であつた者を故意に死亡させた者には、支給しない。被保険者又は被保険者であつた者の死亡前に、その者の死亡によつて遺族厚生年金の受給権者となるべき者を故意に死亡させた者についても、同様とする。 art-76/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-76/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-76/par-1 An employees' pension for surviving family is not paid to a person who has intentionally caused the death of an insured or former insured. The same applies with regard to a person who, prior to the death of an insured or former insured, has intentionally caused the death of a person who would have become the beneficiary of an employees' pension for surviving family upon the death of the insured or former insured. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 遺族厚生年金の受給権は、受給権者が他の受給権者を故意に死亡させたときは、消滅する。 art-76/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-76/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-76/par-2 The right to receive benefits from an employees' pension for surviving family ceases to exist if a beneficiary intentionally causes the death of another beneficiary. 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二十二号（機構への事務の委託） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-100-10/par-1/item-22 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-100-10/par-1/item-22 --- ## 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