# 厚生年金保険法 / Employees' Pension Insurance Act — 第六十一条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 61) - 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: 第六十一条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 61) — address `suppl-3551-82/art-61` - 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-61 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3551-82/art-61 - 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. --- ### 第六十一条 suppl-3551-82/art-61 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3551-82/art-61 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3551-82/art-61 **第一項** 前条第一項又は第二項の規定に該当する者の死亡を支給事由として施行日の前日までの間において厚生年金保険法附則第十六条第一項の規定により従前の遺族年金、寡婦年金、鰥夫年金又は遺児年金の例によつて支給する保険給付を受ける権利を取得した者には、引き続き当該従前の遺族年金、寡婦年金、鰥夫年金又は遺児年金の例によつて支給する保険給付を支給し、同法第五十八条の遺族年金は支給しない。 suppl-3551-82/art-61/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3551-82/art-61/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3551-82/art-61/par-1 To a person who, with the death of a person falling under the provisions of paragraph (1) or (2) of the preceding Article as the grounds for payment, has acquired, by the day before the Effective Date, the right to receive insurance benefits paid pursuant to the provisions of Article 16, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act by following the example of the previous pension for surviving family, widow's pension, widower's pension or orphan's pension, the insurance benefits paid by following the example of that previous pension for surviving family, widow's pension, widower's pension or orphan's pension continue to be paid, and the pension for surviving family under Article 58 of that Act is not paid. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-3551-82/art-61/par-1: 前条第一項 → 厚生年金保険法 附則第六十条第一項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 60, paragraph (1)), suppl-3551-82/art-60/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3551-82/art-60/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3551-82/art-60/par-1 - suppl-3551-82/art-61/par-1: 第二項 → 厚生年金保険法 附則第六十条第二項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 60, paragraph (2)), suppl-3551-82/art-60/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3551-82/art-60/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3551-82/art-60/par-2 --- ## 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-20261013T074650-027, 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