# 厚生年金保険法 / Employees' Pension Insurance Act — 第七十八条の三十一 (Article 78-31) - 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: 第七十八条の三十一 (Article 78-31)（障害手当金の額の特例） — address `art-78-31` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-78-31 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-78-31 - 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. --- ### 第七十八条の三十一（障害手当金の額の特例） — (Special Provisions on the Amount of Disability Allowance) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-78-31 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-78-31 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-78-31 **第一項** 障害手当金の受給権者であつて、当該障害に係る障害認定日において二以上の種別の被保険者であつた期間を有する者に係る当該障害手当金の額については、前条の規定を準用する。この場合において、必要な読替えその他必要な事項は、政令で定める。 art-78-31/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-78-31/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-78-31/par-1 The provisions of the preceding Article apply mutatis mutandis to the amount of disability allowance of a person who is a beneficiary of an employees' disability pension and who has spent time as an insured in two or more categories as of the day of disability assessment for the disability in question. Cabinet Order provides for the necessary technical replacement of terms and other necessary particulars in such a case. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-78-31/par-1: 前条 → 厚生年金保険法 第七十八条の三十 (Article 78-30), art-78-30 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-78-30 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-78-30 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 厚生年金保険法 第七十八条の三十三第一項（障害厚生年金等に関する事務の特例） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-78-33/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-78-33/par-1 --- ## 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