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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(Standards for Approval)
When an application for the approval referred to in paragraph (1) of the preceding Article is filed, and the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare finds that the rules pertaining to the application…
厚生労働大臣は、前条第一項の承認の申請があった場合において、当該申請に係る規約が次に掲げる要件に適合すると認めるときは、同項の承認をするものとする。
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When the employer obtains the approval referred to in paragraph (1) of the preceding Article, the employer must, without delay, inform the category I or IV EPI insured person employed at the place of…
事業主は、前条第一項の承認を受けたときは、遅滞なく、同項の承認を受けた規約（以下「企業型年金規約」という。）を実施事業所に使用される第一号等厚生年金被保険者に周知させなければならない。
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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)…
事業主は、企業型年金規約の変更（厚生労働省令で定める軽微な変更を除く。）をしようとするときは、その変更について厚生労働大臣の承認を受けなければならない。
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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…
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。
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「第一号等厚生年金被保険者」
An insured person under employees' pension insurance (厚生年金保険) who is either a category 1 insured (第一号厚生年金被保険者) — one who is not a member of a national or local public officers' mutual aid association or of the private school personnel mutual aid system — or a category 4 insured (第四号厚生年金被保険者), a member of the private school personnel mutual aid system (私立学校教職員共済制度), as Article 2-5, paragraph (1) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act provides.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (6)· applies throughout the law
instructor of a corporate-type pension plan
「企業型年金運用指図者」
A person, other than a participant (企業型年金加入者), who gives instructions in a corporate-type pension plan (企業型年金) on how their individual assets (個人別管理資産) in it are invested.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (9)· applies throughout the law
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「事業主」
An employer with a place of business covered by employees' pension insurance (厚生年金適用事業所) that runs a corporate-type pension plan (企業型年金) — the meaning the word has throughout this Act except in Article 3, paragraph (4), Article 47, item (v), Article 54-6, Article 55, paragraph (2), item (iv)-2, and Articles 70, 71 and 78.
Short name set inArticle 3, paragraph (3), item (i)· applies from here on, except in Article 3, paragraph (4); Article 47, paragraph (1), item (v); Articles 54-6, 70, 71 and 78; and Article 55, paragraph (2), item (iv-2)
place of business implementing the plan
「実施事業所」
A place of business covered by employees' pension insurance (厚生年金適用事業所) at which a corporate-type pension plan (企業型年金) is run.
Short name set inArticle 3, paragraph (3), item (ii)
corporate-type pension plan rules
「企業型年金規約」
The rules of a corporate-type pension plan (企業型年金) that the employer has drawn up and the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare has approved under Article 3, paragraph (1).
Short name set inArticle 4, paragraph (3)