# 厚生年金保険法 / Employees' Pension Insurance Act — 第七十七条 (Article 77) - 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: 第七十七条 (Article 77) — address `art-77` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-77 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-77 - 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. --- ### 第七十七条 art-77 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-77 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-77 **第一項** 年金たる保険給付は、次の各号のいずれかに該当する場合には、その額の全部又は一部につき、その支給を停止することができる。 art-77/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-77/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-77/par-1 Payment of pension insurance benefits may be suspended in whole or in part in a case that falls under one of the following items: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **一** 受給権者が、正当な理由がなくて、第九十六条第一項の規定による命令に従わず、又は同項の規定による当該職員の質問に応じなかつたとき。 art-77/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-77/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-77/par-1/item-1 if a beneficiary has failed to comply with an order under the provisions of Article 96, paragraph (1) or has refused to answer the questions of the relevant official under the provisions of that paragraph, without reasonable grounds; 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あることにより、年金たる保険給付の受給権を有し、又は第四十四条第一項の規定によりその者について加算が行われている子が、正当な理由がなくて、第九十七条第一項の規定による命令に従わず、又は同項の規定による診断を拒んだとき。 art-77/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-77/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-77/par-1/item-2 if a child who has the right to receive pension insurance benefits due to having a disability of a degree of severity that is classified as any disability grade, or to whose pension an amount is added pursuant to the provisions of Article 44, paragraph (1), due to the child having a disability of a degree of severity that is classified as any disability grade, fails to comply with an order under the provisions of Article 97, paragraph (1) or refuses diagnosis under the provisions of that paragraph, without reasonable grounds; or Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **三** 前号に規定する者が、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、その障害の回復を妨げたとき。 art-77/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-77/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-77/par-1/item-3 if the person provided for in the preceding item has hindered the recovery of their disability, intentionally, through gross negligence, or due to a failure to comply with medical instructions that is without reasonable grounds. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-77/par-1/item-1: 第九十六条第一項 → 厚生年金保険法 第九十六条第一項 (Article 96, paragraph (1)), art-96/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-96/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-96/par-1 - art-77/par-1/item-2: 第四十四条第一項 → 厚生年金保険法 第四十四条第一項 (Article 44, paragraph (1)), art-44/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-44/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-44/par-1 - art-77/par-1/item-2: 第九十七条第一項 → 厚生年金保険法 第九十七条第一項 (Article 97, paragraph (1)), art-97/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-97/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-97/par-1 - art-77/par-1/item-3: 前号 → 厚生年金保険法 第七十七条第一項第二号 (Article 77, paragraph (1), item (ii)), art-77/par-1/item-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-77/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-77/par-1/item-2 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 厚生年金保険法 第七十七条第一項第三号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-77/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-77/par-1/item-3 - 厚生年金保険法 第百条の八第二項（機構が行う立入検査等に係る認可等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-100-8/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-100-8/par-2 - 厚生年金保険法 第百条の十第一項第二十三号（機構への事務の委託） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-100-10/par-1/item-23 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-100-10/par-1/item-23 --- ## 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