# 厚生年金保険法 / Employees' Pension Insurance Act — 第十三条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 13)

- 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: 第十三条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 13)（障害年金等の支給に関する経過措置） — address `suppl-3401-104/art-13`
- Text in force since: 2026-10-01
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### 第十三条（障害年金等の支給に関する経過措置） — Transitional Measures Concerning Payment of Disability Pensions, etc.
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>suppl-3401-104/art-13 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3401-104/art-13 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3401-104/art-13</sup>

**第一項**  昭和四十年五月一日前における第四種被保険者であつた間に疾病にかかり、又は負傷した者の当該傷病については、この法律による改正後の厚生年金保険法第四十七条及び第五十五条の規定は、適用しない。
<sup>suppl-3401-104/art-13/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3401-104/art-13/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3401-104/art-13/par-1</sup>
With regard to an injury or illness of a person who contracted an illness or sustained an injury while a class 4 insured person before May 1, 1965, the provisions of Article 47 and Article 55 of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act as amended by this Act do not apply.
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**第二項**  被保険者であつた者が、昭和四十年五月一日前における第四種被保険者であつた間に発した疾病又は負傷及びこれらに起因する疾病により同日以後に死亡したときは、その者の遺族については、厚生年金保険法第五十八条の規定は、適用しない。ただし、その死亡した者が同条第一項第一号又は第四号に該当する場合には、この限りでない。
<sup>suppl-3401-104/art-13/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3401-104/art-13/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3401-104/art-13/par-2</sup>
If a person who was an insured dies on or after May 1, 1965 as a result of an illness or injury that arose while the person was a class 4 insured person before May 1, 1965, or an illness resulting from them, the provisions of Article 58 of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act do not apply to the surviving family of that person; provided, however, that this does not apply if the deceased person falls under item (i) or (iv) of paragraph (1) of that Article.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

## Cited by

1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction.

- 厚生年金保険法 附則第二条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3401-104/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3401-104/art-2/par-1

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## 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-20261013T074650-020, 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
