# 厚生年金保険法 / Employees' Pension Insurance Act — 第二十四条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 24)

- 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: 第二十四条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 24) — address `suppl-4241-62/art-24`
- Text in force since: 2026-10-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-4241-62/art-24
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-4241-62/art-24
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### 第二十四条
<sup>suppl-4241-62/art-24 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-4241-62/art-24 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-4241-62/art-24</sup>

**第一項**  第四号施行日以後に昭和六十年国民年金等改正法附則第八十七条第一項に規定する年金たる保険給付の受給権者が死亡した場合において、その死亡した者に支給すべき年金たる保険給付でまだその者に支給しなかったものがあるときは、その未支給の年金たる保険給付の支給の請求については、同項の規定にかかわらず、同項の規定によりなお従前の例によるものとされた昭和六十年国民年金等改正法第五条の規定による改正前の船員保険法第二十七条ノ二の規定は適用せず、第三条の規定による改正後の厚生年金保険法第三十七条の規定を準用する。
<sup>suppl-4241-62/art-24/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-4241-62/art-24/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-4241-62/art-24/par-1</sup>
In the case where a beneficiary of the pension insurance benefits prescribed in Article 87, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 1985 National Pension Amendment Act dies on or after the item (iv) Effective Date, if there are pension insurance benefits that should have been paid to the deceased but that had not yet been paid thereto, then, with regard to a request for payment of those unpaid pension insurance benefits, notwithstanding the provisions of that paragraph, the provisions of Article 27-2 of the Mariners Insurance Act before amendment by the provisions of Article 5 of the 1985 National Pension Amendment Act, for which the provisions then in force continue to govern pursuant to the provisions of that paragraph, do not apply, and the provisions of Article 37 of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act as amended by the provisions of Article 3 apply mutatis mutandis.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- suppl-4241-62/art-24/par-1: 昭和六十年国民年金等改正法附則第八十七条第一項 → 厚生年金保険法 附則第八十七条第一項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 87, paragraph (1)), suppl-3601-34/art-87/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3601-34/art-87/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3601-34/art-87/par-1
- suppl-4241-62/art-24/par-1: 厚生年金保険法第三十七条 → 厚生年金保険法 第三十七条 (Article 37), art-37 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-37 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-37

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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-20261013T074650-070, 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
