# 労働者災害補償保険法 / Industrial Accident Compensation Insurance Act — 第十六条の六 (Article 16-6) - Law: 労働者災害補償保険法 (Industrial Accident Compensation Insurance Act), 昭和二十二年法律第五十号 - English title "Industrial Accident Compensation 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: 第十六条の六 (Article 16-6) — address `art-16-6` - Text in force since: 2026-07-17 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/industrial-accident-insurance-act/art-16-6 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000050/art-16-6 - 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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第十六条の六 art-16-6 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/industrial-accident-insurance-act/art-16-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000050/art-16-6 **第一項** 遺族補償一時金は、次の場合に支給する。 art-16-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/industrial-accident-insurance-act/art-16-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000050/art-16-6/par-1 A lump sum compensation for surviving family is paid in the following cases: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **一** 労働者の死亡の当時遺族補償年金を受けることができる遺族がないとき。 art-16-6/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/industrial-accident-insurance-act/art-16-6/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000050/art-16-6/par-1/item-1 where, at the time of the worker's death, there is no surviving family member who is eligible to receive a compensation pension for surviving family; and Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **二** 遺族補償年金を受ける権利を有する者の権利が消滅した場合において、他に当該遺族補償年金を受けることができる遺族がなく、かつ、当該労働者の死亡に関し支給された遺族補償年金の額の合計額が当該権利が消滅した日において前号に掲げる場合に該当することとなるものとしたときに支給されることとなる遺族補償一時金の額に満たないとき。 art-16-6/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/industrial-accident-insurance-act/art-16-6/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000050/art-16-6/par-1/item-2 where a person's right to receive the compensation pension for surviving family is extinguished, and there is no other surviving family member who is eligible to receive the compensation pension for surviving family and the total amount of the compensation pension for surviving family paid for the worker's death is less than the amount of the lump sum compensation for surviving family that would be paid on the assumption that the situation falls under the case set forth in the preceding item on the day on which the right is extinguished. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項第二号に規定する遺族補償年金の額の合計額を計算する場合には、同号に規定する権利が消滅した日の属する年度（当該権利が消滅した日の属する月が四月から七月までの月に該当する場合にあつては、その前年度。以下この項において同じ。）の七月以前の分として支給された遺族補償年金の額については、その現に支給された額に当該権利が消滅した日の属する年度の前年度の平均給与額を当該遺族補償年金の支給の対象とされた月の属する年度の前年度（当該月が四月から七月までの月に該当する場合にあつては、前々年度）の平均給与額で除して得た率を基準として厚生労働大臣が定める率を乗じて得た額により算定するものとする。 art-16-6/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/industrial-accident-insurance-act/art-16-6/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000050/art-16-6/par-2 When the total amount of a compensation pension for surviving family prescribed in item (ii) of the preceding paragraph is calculated, with regard to the amount of the compensation pension for surviving family paid for a period before July of the fiscal year of the date on which the right prescribed in that item is extinguished (in cases where the month of the date on which the right is extinguished is any of the months from April to July, the previous fiscal year; hereinafter the same applies in this paragraph), the amount is calculated according to the amount obtained by multiplying the amount actually paid by the rate specified by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare based on the rate obtained by dividing the average salary for the fiscal year before the fiscal year of the date on which the right is extinguished by the average salary for the fiscal year one year before the fiscal year of the months for which the compensation pension for surviving family is paid (in cases where the relevant month is either April, May, June or July, the fiscal year two years before). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-16-6/par-1/item-2: 前号 → 労働者災害補償保険法 第十六条の六第一項第一号 (Article 16-6, paragraph (1), item (i)), art-16-6/par-1/item-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/industrial-accident-insurance-act/art-16-6/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000050/art-16-6/par-1/item-1 - art-16-6/par-2: 前項第二号 → 労働者災害補償保険法 第十六条の六第一項第二号 (Article 16-6, paragraph (1), item (ii)), art-16-6/par-1/item-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/industrial-accident-insurance-act/art-16-6/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000050/art-16-6/par-1/item-2 - art-16-6/par-2: この項 → 労働者災害補償保険法 第十六条の六第二項 (Article 16-6, paragraph (2)), art-16-6/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/industrial-accident-insurance-act/art-16-6/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000050/art-16-6/par-2 ## Cited by 18 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 労働保険の保険料の徴収等に関する法律 第十二条第三項（一般保険料に係る保険料率） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-insurance-premium-collection-act/art-12/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/344AC0000000084/art-12/par-3 - 労働保険の保険料の徴収等に関する法律 第二十条第一項第一号（確定保険料の特例） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-insurance-premium-collection-act/art-20/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/344AC0000000084/art-20/par-1/item-1 - 労働保険の保険料の徴収等に関する法律 第二十条第一項第二号（確定保険料の特例） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-insurance-premium-collection-act/art-20/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/344AC0000000084/art-20/par-1/item-2 - 労働者災害補償保険法 第八条の三第一項第二号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/industrial-accident-insurance-act/art-8-3/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000050/art-8-3/par-1/item-2 - 労働者災害補償保険法 第十六条の六第一項第二号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/industrial-accident-insurance-act/art-16-6/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000050/art-16-6/par-1/item-2 - 労働者災害補償保険法 第十六条の六第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/industrial-accident-insurance-act/art-16-6/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000050/art-16-6/par-2 - 労働者災害補償保険法 第二十条の六第三項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/industrial-accident-insurance-act/art-20-6/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000050/art-20-6/par-3 - 労働者災害補償保険法 第二十二条の四第三項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/industrial-accident-insurance-act/art-22-4/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000050/art-22-4/par-3 - 労働者災害補償保険法 第四十二条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/industrial-accident-insurance-act/art-42/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000050/art-42/par-2 - 労働者災害補償保険法 附則第五十八条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/industrial-accident-insurance-act/suppl-3221-50/art-58/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000050/suppl-3221-50/art-58/par-1 - 労働者災害補償保険法 附則第五十八条第四項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/industrial-accident-insurance-act/suppl-3221-50/art-58/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000050/suppl-3221-50/art-58/par-4 - 労働者災害補償保険法 附則第六十条第四項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/industrial-accident-insurance-act/suppl-3221-50/art-60/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000050/suppl-3221-50/art-60/par-4 - 労働者災害補償保険法 附則第六十条の二第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/industrial-accident-insurance-act/suppl-3221-50/art-60-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000050/suppl-3221-50/art-60-2/par-1 - 労働者災害補償保険法 附則第六十条の四第三項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/industrial-accident-insurance-act/suppl-3221-50/art-60-4/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000050/suppl-3221-50/art-60-4/par-3 - 労働者災害補償保険法 附則第六十一条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/industrial-accident-insurance-act/suppl-3221-50/art-61/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000050/suppl-3221-50/art-61/par-1 - 労働者災害補償保険法 附則第六十三条第三項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/industrial-accident-insurance-act/suppl-3221-50/art-63/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000050/suppl-3221-50/art-63/par-3 - 労働者災害補償保険法 附則第六十四条第二項第二号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/industrial-accident-insurance-act/suppl-3221-50/art-64/par-2/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000050/suppl-3221-50/art-64/par-2/item-2 - 労働者災害補償保険法 別表第二 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/industrial-accident-insurance-act/appdx-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000050/appdx-2 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 労働者災害補償保険法 — the text in force from 2026-07-17 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/322AC0000000050/20260717_508AC0000000060), retrieved 2026-09-29 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Industrial Accident Compensation Insurance Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3879/tb), retrieved 2026-09-29 - This site's parser, version 211 — 労働者災害補償保険法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-09-29