# 厚生年金保険法 / Employees' Pension Insurance Act — 第十七条の二 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 17-2) - 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: 第十七条の二 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 17-2)（遺族厚生年金の額の特例） — address `suppl-3291-115/art-17-2` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3291-115/art-17-2 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3291-115/art-17-2 - 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. --- ### 第十七条の二（遺族厚生年金の額の特例） — Special Provisions on the Amount of Employees' Pension for Surviving Family caption: machine translation, not official suppl-3291-115/art-17-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3291-115/art-17-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3291-115/art-17-2 **第一項** 第六十条第一項の規定の適用については、当分の間、同項中「受給権を有する配偶者」とあるのは、「受給権を有する配偶者（六十五歳に達している者に限る。）」とする。 suppl-3291-115/art-17-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3291-115/art-17-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3291-115/art-17-2/par-1 For the purpose of applying Article 60, paragraph (1), for the time being, the phrase "the spouse who has the right to receive any of the pension benefits from the employees' old-age pension" in Article 60, paragraph (1) is deemed to be replaced with "the spouse who has the right to receive any of the pension benefits from the employees' old-age pension (limited to a person who has reached the age of 65)". machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-3291-115/art-17-2/par-1: 第六十条第一項 → 厚生年金保険法 第六十条第一項 (Article 60, paragraph (1)), art-60/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-60/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-60/par-1 ## Cited by 4 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 厚生年金保険法 附則第六条第二項（厚生年金保険法による年金たる保険給付等の額に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-4121-18/art-6/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-4121-18/art-6/par-2 - 厚生年金保険法 附則第六条第三項（厚生年金保険法による年金たる保険給付等の額に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-4121-18/art-6/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-4121-18/art-6/par-3 - 厚生年金保険法 附則第二十一条第五項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-4121-18/art-21/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-4121-18/art-21/par-5 - 厚生年金保険法 附則第二十一条第六項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-4121-18/art-21/par-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-4121-18/art-21/par-6 --- ## 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 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch employees-pension-insurance-act-20261013T074650-012, translated 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