When an employer intends to make a change to the corporate-type pension plan rules (excluding the minor change specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare), the employer must obtain approval of the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare for that change.
An application for the approval for the change referred to in the preceding paragraph must be filed by obtaining consent of a labor union consisting of the majority of the category I or IV EPI insured person employed at the place of business implementing the plan, if there is any such labor union, or consent of the person representative of the majority of the category I or IV EPI insured person, if there is no labor union consisting of the majority of the category I or IV EPI insured person.
前項の変更の承認の申請は、実施事業所に使用される第一号等厚生年金被保険者の過半数で組織する労働組合があるときは当該労働組合、当該第一号等厚生年金被保険者の過半数で組織する労働組合がないときは当該第一号等厚生年金被保険者の過半数を代表する者の同意を得て行わなければならない。
In the case referred to in the preceding paragraph, if there are two or more places of business implementing the plan, the consent referred to in that paragraph must be obtained for each place of business implementing the plan; provided, however, that if the change referred to in paragraph (1) does not involve all places of business implementing the plan, and the rules have provided for matters concerning that change in advance, once the consent referred to in the preceding paragraph has been obtained for the place of business implementing the plan subject to that change, it may be deemed that the consent of not only the places of business implementing the plan subject to that change but also the other places of business implementing the plan has also been obtained.
The provisions of the preceding Article apply mutatis mutandis to the case where an application for the approval or a change referred to in paragraph (1) has been filed. In this case, the phrase "category I or IV EPI insured person" in paragraph (3) of the preceding Article is deemed to be replaced with "category I or IV EPI insured person (including the instructor of a corporate-type pension plans, if an important change has been made to a matter concerning an instructor of a corporate-type pension plans)".
前条の規定は、第一項の変更の承認の申請があった場合について準用する。この場合において、同条第三項中「第一号等厚生年金被保険者」とあるのは、「第一号等厚生年金被保険者（企業型年金運用指図者に係る事項に重要な変更を加えたときは、企業型年金運用指図者を含む。）」と読み替えるものとする。
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