# 厚生年金保険法 / Employees' Pension Insurance Act — 第四条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 4) - 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: 第四条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 4) — address `suppl-3551-82/art-4` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3551-82/art-4 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3551-82/art-4 - 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. --- ### 第四条 suppl-3551-82/art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3551-82/art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3551-82/art-4 **第一項** 昭和五十五年八月一日からこの法律の施行の日（以下「施行日」という。）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を受ける権利を有する者（同法第三十八条第一項の規定により当該遺族年金が支給されている者に限る。）の当該遺族年金については、引き続き同項の規定により支給される間、第一条の規定による改正後の同法第三十八条第二項中「加給年金額」とあるのは、「加給年金額及び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」とする。 suppl-3551-82/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3551-82/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3551-82/art-4/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 date of enforcement of this Act (hereinafter referred to as "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 (limited to a person to whom that pension for surviving family is paid pursuant to the provisions of Article 38, paragraph (1) of that Act), for as long as it continues to be paid pursuant to the provisions of that paragraph, the phrase "additional amount of pension" in Article 38, paragraph (2) of that Act as amended by the provisions of Article 1 is deemed to be replaced with "additional amount of pension and 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)". machine translation, not official ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 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 --- ## 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