# 厚生年金保険法 / Employees' Pension Insurance Act — 第十六条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 16)
- 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
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- Provision: 第十六条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 16) — address `suppl-3551-82/art-16`
- Text in force since: 2026-10-01
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### 第十六条
suppl-3551-82/art-16 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3551-82/art-16 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3551-82/art-16
**第一項** 昭和五十五年八月一日から施行日の前日までの間のいずれかの日において厚生年金保険法第六十二条の二の規定により加算する額が加算されている遺族年金（同法附則第十六条において準用する同法第六十二条の二の規定により加算する額が加算されている同法附則第十六条第一項の規定によつて支給する従前の遺族年金及び寡婦年金の例による保険給付を含むものとし、その全額につき支給を停止されているものを除く。以下この条において同じ。）を受ける権利を有する者であつて、同日において第一条の規定による改正後の同法第六十五条の二に規定する政令で定める給付（その全額につき支給を停止されている給付を除く。以下この条において「他の公的年金給付」という。）の支給を受けることができるものの当該遺族年金については、第一条の規定による改正後の同法第六十五条の二中「加算する額」とあるのは、「加算する額から厚生年金保険法等の一部を改正する法律（昭和五十五年法律第八十二号）第一条の規定による改正前の厚生年金保険法第六十二条の二の規定により加算する額を控除して得た額」とする。ただし、当該遺族年金又はその者に支給される他の公的年金給付がその全額につき支給を停止されるに至つたときは、この限りでない。
suppl-3551-82/art-16/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3551-82/art-16/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3551-82/art-16/par-1
With regard to a pension for surviving family of a person who, on any day during the period from August 1, 1980 through the day before the Effective Date, has the right to receive a pension for surviving family to which an amount to be added pursuant to the provisions of Article 62-2 of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act has been added (including insurance benefits that follow the example of the previous pension for surviving family and widow's pension paid pursuant to the provisions of Article 16, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of that Act, to which an amount to be added pursuant to the provisions of Article 62-2 of that Act as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 16 of the Supplementary Provisions of that Act has been added, and excluding a pension whose payment is suspended in its entirety; the same applies hereinafter in this Article) and who, on that day, is able to receive payment of the benefit specified by Cabinet Order prescribed in Article 65-2 of that Act as amended by the provisions of Article 1 (excluding a benefit whose payment is suspended in its entirety; hereinafter in this Article referred to as "other public pension benefit"), the phrase "the amount to be added" in Article 65-2 of that Act as amended by the provisions of Article 1 is deemed to be replaced with "the amount obtained by deducting the amount to be added pursuant to the provisions of Article 62-2 of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act prior to its amendment by the provisions of Article 1 of the Act Partially Amending the Employees' Pension Insurance Act, etc. (Act No. 82 of 1980) from the amount to be added"; provided, however, that this does not apply when the payment of that pension for surviving family, or of the other public pension benefit paid to that person, comes to be suspended in its entirety.
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## Cites
- suppl-3551-82/art-16/par-1: この条 → 厚生年金保険法 附則第十六条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 16), suppl-3551-82/art-16 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3551-82/art-16 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3551-82/art-16
## Cited by
3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction.
- 厚生年金保険法 附則第一条第二項第一号（施行期日等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3551-82/art-1/par-2/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3551-82/art-1/par-2/item-1
- 厚生年金保険法 附則第一条第二項第三号（施行期日等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3551-82/art-1/par-2/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3551-82/art-1/par-2/item-3
- 厚生年金保険法 附則第十六条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3551-82/art-16/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3551-82/art-16/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-20261013T074650-026, 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