# 厚生年金保険法 / Employees' Pension Insurance Act — 第六十八条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 68) - 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: 第六十八条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 68) — address `suppl-3601-34/art-68` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3601-34/art-68 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3601-34/art-68 - 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. --- ### 第六十八条 suppl-3601-34/art-68 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3601-34/art-68 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3601-34/art-68 **第一項** 船員保険の被保険者であつた間に職務上の事由又は通勤により疾病にかかり、又は負傷した者が、施行日前に既に当該傷病に係る初診日から起算して一年六月を経過し、かつ、当該傷病が治つていない場合であつて、施行日において、新厚生年金保険法第四十七条第二項に規定する障害等級に該当する程度の障害の状態にあるときは、同条の規定に該当するものとみなして、その者に同条の障害厚生年金を支給する。この場合において、同法第五十一条中「当該障害厚生年金の支給事由となつた障害に係る障害認定日」とあるのは、「昭和六十一年四月一日」とする。 suppl-3601-34/art-68/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3601-34/art-68/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3601-34/art-68/par-1 Where a person who contracted an illness or suffered an injury due to a cause related to duty or while commuting during the period of being an insured under Mariners Insurance has, before the Effective Date, already passed one year and six months counting from the day of initial examination for that injury or illness, and that injury or illness has not healed, and on the Effective Date the person has a disability of a degree of severity that is classified as any of the disability grades prescribed in Article 47, paragraph (2) of the new Employees' Pension Insurance Act, the person is deemed to fall under the provisions of that Article, and the employees' disability pension under that Article is paid to the person. In this case, the phrase "the day of disability assessment for the disability that constitutes the grounds for payment of the relevant employees' disability pension" in Article 51 of that Act is deemed to be replaced with "April 1, 1986". machine translation, not official **第二項** 前項の規定により支給される障害厚生年金は、その受給権者が旧船員保険法第四十条第二項に規定する障害年金の受給権を有するときは、その間、その支給を停止する。 suppl-3601-34/art-68/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3601-34/art-68/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3601-34/art-68/par-2 Payment of an employees' disability pension paid pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph is suspended during the period in which its beneficiary has the right to receive a disability pension prescribed in Article 40, paragraph (2) of the former Mariners Insurance Act. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-3601-34/art-68/par-1: 新厚生年金保険法第四十七条第二項 → 厚生年金保険法 第四十七条第二項 (Article 47, paragraph (2)), art-47/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-47/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-47/par-2 - suppl-3601-34/art-68/par-1: 同条 → 厚生年金保険法 第四十七条 (Article 47), art-47 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-47 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-47 - suppl-3601-34/art-68/par-1: 同法第五十一条 → 厚生年金保険法 第五十一条 (Article 51), art-51 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-51 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-51 - suppl-3601-34/art-68/par-2: 前項 → 厚生年金保険法 附則第六十八条第一項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 68, paragraph (1)), suppl-3601-34/art-68/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3601-34/art-68/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3601-34/art-68/par-1 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 厚生年金保険法 附則第六十八条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3601-34/art-68/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3601-34/art-68/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-20261013T074650-034, 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