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Defined Contribution Pension Act

確定拠出年金法(かくていきょしゅつねんきんほう)

Every term this law . Its definitions bind only this law — each entry says where the definition applies and links to the sentence that settles it. 98 terms: 65 with the Ministry of Justice's English, 33 in our translation, marked as such.

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corporate-type pension plan

企業型年金(きぎょうがたねんきん)

A pension plan that an employer with a place of business covered by employees' pension insurance (厚生年金適用事業所) runs, alone or jointly with others, under Chapter II of the Defined Contribution Pension Act.

厚生年金適用事業所の事業主が、単独で又は共同して、次章の規定に基づいて実施する年金制度

Article 2, paragraph (2)
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participant of a corporate-type pension plan

企業型年金加入者(きぎょうがたねんきんかにゅうしゃ)

A participant in a corporate-type pension plan (企業型年金): a person for whom the employer running the plan pays contributions into it and who gives instructions on how their individual assets (個人別管理資産) in it are invested, as Article 2, paragraph (8) of the Defined Contribution Pension Act defines it.

企業型年金において、その者について企業型年金を実施する厚生年金適用事業所の事業主により掛金が拠出され、かつ、その個人別管理資産について運用の指図を行う者

Article 2, paragraph (8)
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Association

連合会(れんごうかい)

The National Pension Fund Association (国民年金基金連合会) that the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare has designated, as the only one for the whole country, to run the individual-type pension plan (個人型年金).

国民年金基金連合会であって、個人型年金を実施する者として厚生労働大臣が全国を通じて一個に限り指定したもの

Article 2, paragraph (5)
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assets managed per individual

個人別管理資産(こじんべつかんりしさん)

The assets built up in one corporate-type pension plan (企業型年金) or in the individual-type pension plan (個人型年金) to pay the benefits of a person who is or was a participant of it.

企業型年金加入者若しくは企業型年金加入者であった者又は個人型年金加入者若しくは個人型年金加入者であった者に支給する給付に充てるべきものとして、一の企業型年金又は個人型年金において積み立てられている資産

Article 2, paragraph (12)
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employer

事業主(じぎょうぬし)

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.

Article 3, paragraph (3), item (i)
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participant of an individual-type pension plan

個人型年金加入者(こじんがたねんきんかにゅうしゃ)

A participant in the individual-type pension plan (個人型年金) that the National Pension Fund Association designated for it (連合会) runs: a person who pays contributions to that plan and gives instructions on how their individual assets (個人別管理資産) in it are invested, as Article 2, paragraph (10) of the Defined Contribution Pension Act defines it.

個人型年金において、掛金を拠出し、かつ、その個人別管理資産について運用の指図を行う者

Article 2, paragraph (10)
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defined contribution pension plan operational management institution

確定拠出年金運営管理機関(かくていきょしゅつねんきんうんえいかんりきかん)

A corporation that carries on the defined contribution pension plan operational management business (確定拠出年金運営管理業) having been registered with the competent minister (主務大臣) under Article 88, paragraph (1).

第八十八条第一項の登録を受けて確定拠出年金運営管理業を営む者

Article 3, paragraph (3), item (iv)
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asset management institution

資産管理機関(しさんかんりきかん)

The other party to the contract that an employer running a corporate-type pension plan (企業型年金) has concluded under Article 8, paragraph (1) for the plan's reserve fund (積立金): a trust company, a financial institution doing trust business, a corporate pension fund, a life insurance company, a federation of agricultural cooperatives or a non-life insurance company.

企業型年金を実施する事業主が第八条第一項の規定により締結した契約の相手方

Article 2, paragraph (7), item (i), (b)
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corporate-type pension plan rules

企業型年金規約(きぎょうがたねんきんきやく)

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).

Article 4, paragraph (3)
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individual-type pension plan

個人型年金(こじんがたねんきん)

The pension plan that the National Pension Fund Association designated to run it (連合会) runs under Chapter III of the Defined Contribution Pension Act.

連合会が、第三章の規定に基づいて実施する年金制度

Article 2, paragraph (3)
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place of business implementing the plan

実施事業所(じっしじぎょうしょ)

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.

Article 3, paragraph (3), item (ii)
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corporate-type pension plan records-related operational management institution, etc.

企業型記録関連運営管理機関等(きぎょうがたきろくかんれんうんえいかんりきかんとう)

The operational management institution that does a corporate-type pension plan's record-keeping work (企業型記録関連運営管理機関), or an employer that does that record-keeping work (記録関連業務) itself.

Article 17, paragraph (1)
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participant or instructor of a corporate-type pension plan

企業型年金加入者等(きぎょうがたねんきんかにゅうしゃとう)

The participants (企業型年金加入者) and the investment instructors (企業型年金運用指図者) of a corporate-type pension plan (企業型年金), taken together.

Article 4, paragraph (1), item (v)
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instructor of an individual-type pension plan investment

個人型年金運用指図者(こじんがたねんきんうんようさしずしゃ)

A person, other than a participant (個人型年金加入者), who gives instructions in the individual-type pension plan (個人型年金) on how their individual assets (個人別管理資産) in it are invested.

個人型年金において、その個人別管理資産について運用の指図を行う者(個人型年金加入者を除く。)

Article 2, paragraph (11)
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operational management services

運営管理業務(うんえいかんりぎょうむ)

The operational management work of defined contribution pension plans that Article 2, paragraph (7) lists: the record-keeping work (記録関連業務) — participants' and instructors' records, their investment instructions and rulings on the right to benefits — and the investment-related work (運用関連業務) of selecting investment methods, presenting them and giving information on them.

Article 2, paragraph (7)
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defined contribution pension plan operational management business

確定拠出年金運営管理業(かくていきょしゅつねんきんうんえいかんりぎょう)

The business of doing all or part of the operational management work (運営管理業務) of defined contribution pension plans that Article 2, paragraph (7) lists: the record-keeping work (記録関連業務) — keeping participants' and instructors' records, collecting their investment instructions and ruling on the right to benefits — and the investment-related work (運用関連業務) of selecting investment methods, presenting them and giving information on them.

次に掲げる業務(以下「運営管理業務」という。)の全部又は一部を行う事業

Article 2, paragraph (7)
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EPI-applicable place of business

厚生年金適用事業所(こうせいねんきんてきようじぎょうしょ)

A place of business covered by employees' pension insurance: an applicable place of business (適用事業所) under Article 6, paragraph (1) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act, or one whose employer has, with the approval of the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare, made it an applicable place of business under paragraph (3) of that Article.

厚生年金保険法(昭和二十九年法律第百十五号)第六条第一項の適用事業所及び同条第三項の認可を受けた適用事業所

Article 2, paragraph (4)
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participants or instructors

加入者等(かにゅうしゃとう)

All the participants and investment instructors of corporate-type pension plans (企業型年金) and of the individual-type pension plan (個人型年金), taken together.

Article 2, paragraph (7), item (i), (a)
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defined benefit corporate pension plan

確定給付企業年金(かくていきゅうふきぎょうねんきん)

A defined benefit corporate pension plan as Article 2, paragraph (1) of the Defined-Benefit Corporate Pension Act defines it: a pension plan that an employer with a place of business covered by employees' pension insurance (厚生年金適用事業所) runs, alone or jointly with others, under that Act.

確定給付企業年金法(平成十三年法律第五十号)第二条第一項に規定する確定給付企業年金

Article 3, paragraph (4), item (iii)
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category I or IV EPI insured

第一号等厚生年金被保険者(だいいちごうとうこうせいねんきんひほけんしゃ)

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.

厚生年金保険の被保険者のうち厚生年金保険法第二条の五第一項第一号に規定する第一号厚生年金被保険者(以下「第一号厚生年金被保険者」という。)又は同項第四号に規定する第四号厚生年金被保険者(以下「第四号厚生年金被保険者」という。)

Article 2, paragraph (6)
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instructor of a corporate-type pension plan

企業型年金運用指図者(きぎょうがたねんきんうんようさしずしゃ)

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.

企業型年金において、その個人別管理資産について運用の指図を行う者(企業型年金加入者を除く。)

Article 2, paragraph (9)
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participant of a corporate-type pension plan's contribution

企業型年金加入者掛金(きぎょうがたねんきんかにゅうしゃかけきん)

Contributions that participants of a corporate-type pension plan (企業型年金加入者) pay into it themselves, where the plan's rules provide that they may.

Article 3, paragraph (3), item (vii-2)
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individual-type pension plan rules

個人型年金規約(こじんがたねんきんきやく)

The rules of the individual-type pension plan (個人型年金) that the Association (連合会) has drawn up and the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare has approved under Article 55, paragraph (1), and that the Association must publish.

Article 56, paragraph (3)
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employer's contribution

事業主掛金(じぎょうぬしかけきん)

The contributions that the employer (事業主) running a corporate-type pension plan (企業型年金) pays into it, worked out as the plan's rules provide.

Article 3, paragraph (3), item (vii)
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default investment method

指定運用方法(していうんようほうほう)

The one default investment method that the institution handling a corporate-type pension plan's investment options (企業型運用関連運営管理機関等) may, as the plan's rules provide, select from the subject investment methods (対象運用方法) and present to participants under Article 23-2, paragraph (1), and which must meet the standards an Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (厚生労働省令) sets for securing returns over the long term against losses from changes in prices and other economic conditions.

Article 23-2, paragraph (2)
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participant of an individual-type pension plan's contribution

個人型年金加入者掛金(こじんがたねんきんかにゅうしゃかけきん)

The contributions a participant of the individual-type pension plan (個人型年金加入者) pays into it, decided or changed as the plan's rules provide.

Article 55, paragraph (2), item (iv)
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the amount of assets managed per individual

個人別管理資産額(こじんべつかんりしさんがく)

The amount of a person's individual assets (個人別管理資産), calculated as a Cabinet Order (政令) provides.

個人別管理資産の額として政令で定めるところにより計算した額

Article 2, paragraph (13)
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corporate-type pension plan investment-related operational management institution, etc.

企業型運用関連運営管理機関等(きぎょうがたうんようかんれんうんえいかんりきかんとう)

A defined contribution pension plan operational management institution (確定拠出年金運営管理機関) that does the investment-related work (運用関連業務) — selecting investment methods, presenting them and giving information on them — for the participants and instructors of a corporate-type pension plan (企業型年金加入者等), or an employer that does that work itself.

Article 23, paragraph (1)
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participant or instructor of an individual-type pension plan

個人型年金加入者等(こじんがたねんきんかにゅうしゃとう)

The participants (個人型年金加入者) and the investment instructors (個人型年金運用指図者) of the individual-type pension plan (個人型年金), taken together.

Article 55, paragraph (2), item (iii)
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small and medium-sized employer

中小事業主(ちゅうしょうじぎょうぬし)

In Chapter III, on the individual-type pension plan (個人型年金), an employer with a place of business covered by employees' pension insurance (厚生年金適用事業所) that runs neither a corporate-type pension plan (企業型年金) nor a defined benefit corporate pension plan (確定給付企業年金), and that employs no more than 300 category 1 insured persons under employees' pension insurance (第一号厚生年金被保険者).

企業型年金及び確定給付企業年金を実施していない厚生年金適用事業所の事業主であって、その使用する第一号厚生年金被保険者の数が三百人以下のもの

Article 55, paragraph (2), item (iv-2)
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order of the competent ministry

主務省令(しゅむしょうれい)

In this Act, an order (命令) issued, as a Cabinet Order (政令) provides, by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare or the Prime Minister.

政令で定めるところにより、厚生労働大臣又は内閣総理大臣の発する命令

Article 114, paragraph (2)
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small and medium-sized employer's contributions

中小事業主掛金(ちゅうしょうじぎょうぬしかけきん)

Contributions that a small and medium-sized employer (中小事業主) makes under Article 68-2, paragraph (1), regularly and at least once a year, for those of its employees who are participants of the individual-type pension plan (個人型年金加入者) and pay their own contributions through it, with the consent of a union or a representative of the majority of all its employees insured as category I insured persons under Employees' Pension Insurance (第一号厚生年金被保険者), other than those Article 62, paragraph (2) lists.

Article 68-2, paragraph (2)
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reserve fund

積立金(つみたてきん)

The reserve fund: the reserve fund (積立金) a corporate-type pension plan (企業型年金) builds up to pay its benefits, for which the employer must conclude one of the contracts Article 8, paragraph (1) lists: a trust contract, a life insurance contract, a life mutual aid (生命共済) contract or a non-life insurance contract.

Article 8, paragraph (1)
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asset management contracts

資産管理契約(しさんかんりけいやく)

One of the contracts Article 8, paragraph (1) lists — a trust contract, a life insurance contract, a life mutual aid (生命共済) contract or a non-life insurance contract — that an employer running a corporate-type pension plan must conclude for its reserve fund (積立金); the other party may not refuse it without good reason.

Article 8, paragraph (2)
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instructions on investment

運用の指図(うんようのさしず)

In Chapter II, an investment instruction by a participant or investment instructor of a corporate-type pension plan (企業型年金加入者等): choosing one or more of the investment methods presented to them, deciding how much to put into each, and telling the institution keeping the plan's records (企業型記録関連運営管理機関等).

Article 25, paragraph (2)
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Pension Fund Association

企業年金連合会(きぎょうねんきんれんごうかい)

The Pension Fund Association (企業年金連合会) of Article 91-2, paragraph (1) of the Defined-Benefit Corporate Pension Act, which employers and others running defined benefit corporate pension plans (確定給付企業年金) may set up to pay old-age benefits jointly to those who left such plans early and to members of terminated plans, and to make transfers of reserves (積立金) go smoothly.

確定給付企業年金法第九十一条の二第一項に規定する企業年金連合会

Article 48-2, paragraph (1)
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amount equivalent to lump-sum withdrawal payment, etc.

脱退一時金相当額等(だったいいちじきんそうとうがくとう)

An amount equal to the lump-sum withdrawal payment (脱退一時金) of a member who left a defined benefit corporate pension plan (確定給付企業年金) early, as Article 81-2, paragraph (1) of the Defined-Benefit Corporate Pension Act provides, or a reserve fund (積立金) under Article 59 of that Act that the rules of the Pension Fund Association (企業年金連合会) set; a corporate-type pension plan's asset management institution may receive either by transfer.

確定給付企業年金の脱退一時金相当額(確定給付企業年金法第八十一条の二第一項に規定する脱退一時金相当額をいう。)又は企業年金連合会の規約で定める積立金(確定給付企業年金法第五十九条に規定する積立金をいう。)

Article 54-2, paragraph (1)
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individual-type pension plan records-related operational management institution

個人型記録関連運営管理機関(こじんがたきろくかんれんうんえいかんりきかん)

The defined contribution pension plan operational management institution (確定拠出年金運営管理機関) that a participant or investment instructor of the individual-type pension plan (個人型年金加入者等) has chosen to do their record-keeping work (記録関連業務).

Article 66, paragraph (3)
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defined contribution pension plan

確定拠出年金(かくていきょしゅつねんきん)

Corporate-type pension plans (企業型年金) and the individual-type pension plan (個人型年金), taken together.

企業型年金及び個人型年金

Article 2, paragraph (1)
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records-related services

記録関連業務(きろくかんれんぎょうむ)

The record-keeping work of defined contribution pension plans that Article 2, paragraph (7), item (i) lists: recording, keeping and giving notice of participants' and instructors' (加入者等) names, addresses, amounts of individual assets and other details; collecting their investment instructions and passing them on to the asset management institution (資産管理機関) or the Association (連合会); and ruling on the right to receive benefits — other than work an Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (厚生労働省令) excludes, such as the Association's checks of who may be a participant of the individual-type pension plan.

Article 2, paragraph (7), item (i)
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participant of a corporate-type pension plan period

企業型年金加入者期間(きぎょうがたねんきんかにゅうしゃきかん)

The time a person is a participant of a corporate-type pension plan (企業型年金加入者), counted in months from the month they gain that status to the month before the one in which they lose it.

Article 14, paragraph (1)
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benefits

給付(きゅうふ)

In Subsection 1 of Section 5 of Chapter II and in Article 48-2, the benefits of a corporate-type pension plan (企業型年金): old-age benefits (老齢給付金), disability benefits (障害給付金) and the lump-sum death benefit (死亡一時金).

Article 28, paragraph (1)
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participant of an individual-type pension plan period

個人型年金加入者期間(こじんがたねんきんかにゅうしゃきかん)

The time a person is a participant of the individual-type pension plan (個人型年金加入者), counted in months from the month they gain that status to the month before the one in which they lose it (Article 63).

Article 33, paragraph (2), item (iii)
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participant of a corporate-type pension plan

企業型年金加入者(きぎょうがたねんきんかにゅうしゃ)

A participant in a corporate-type pension plan (企業型年金): a person for whom the employer running the plan pays contributions into it and who gives instructions on how their individual assets (個人別管理資産) in it are invested, as Article 2, paragraph (8) of the Defined Contribution Pension Act defines it.

確定拠出年金法第二条第八項に規定する企業型年金加入者

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investment-related services

運用関連業務(うんようかんれんぎょうむ)

The investment-related work of defined contribution pension plans: selecting investment methods, presenting them to participants and investment instructors (加入者等), and giving information on them.

Article 2, paragraph (7), item (ii)
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beneficiary

受給権者(じゅきゅうけんしゃ)

In Section 5 of Chapter II, on the benefits of a corporate-type pension plan (企業型年金), a person who holds the right to receive one of those benefits (給付), on which the institution keeping the plan's records (企業型記録関連運営管理機関等) rules at that person's request.

Article 29, paragraph (1)
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material-providing services

資料提供等業務(しりょうていきょうとうぎょうむ)

Work of providing basic materials on investing assets, and taking other necessary measures, to help the participants and instructors of a corporate-type pension plan (企業型年金加入者等) give investment instructions; an employer may entrust all or part of it to the Pension Fund Association (企業年金連合会).

Article 48-2, paragraph (1)
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operational management contract

運営管理契約(うんえいかんりけいやく)

A contract by which an employer or the Association (連合会) entrusts operational management work (運営管理業務) to a defined contribution pension plan operational management institution under Article 7, paragraph (1) or Article 60, paragraph (1), or by which such an institution passes part of that work on to another under Article 7, paragraph (2) or Article 60, paragraph (3).

Article 98, paragraph (1), item (i)
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item (vii) new Defined Contribution Pension Act

第七号新確定拠出年金法(だいしちごうしんかくていきょしゅつねんきんほう)

This Act as amended by Article 22 of Act No. 40 of 2020.

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instructor of a corporate-type pension plan period

企業型年金運用指図者期間(きぎょうがたねんきんうんようさしずしゃきかん)

The time a person is an investment instructor of a corporate-type pension plan (企業型年金運用指図者), counted, as Article 14 provides for participants, in months from the month they gain that status to the month before the one in which they lose it.

Article 15, paragraph (4)
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corporate-type pension plan records-related operational management institution

企業型記録関連運営管理機関(きぎょうがたきろくかんれんうんえいかんりきかん)

The defined contribution pension plan operational management institution (確定拠出年金運営管理機関) that does the record-keeping work (記録関連業務) for the participants and instructors of a corporate-type pension plan (企業型年金加入者等): keeping their records, collecting their investment instructions and ruling on their right to benefits.

Article 16, paragraph (1)
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instructors using the investment method to be excluded

除外運用方法指図者(じょがいうんようほうほうさしずしゃ)

In Article 26, a participant or investment instructor of a corporate-type pension plan (企業型年金加入者等) whose investment instructions choose an investment method that the institution handling the plan's investment options (企業型運用関連運営管理機関等) intends to drop; as a rule, at least two-thirds of them, leaving out those whose whereabouts are unknown, must agree before it is dropped.

Article 26, paragraph (1)
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instructor of an individual-type pension plan investment period

個人型年金運用指図者期間(こじんがたねんきんうんようさしずしゃきかん)

The time a person is an investment instructor of the individual-type pension plan (個人型年金運用指図者), counted, as Article 63 provides for participants, in months from the month they gain that status to the month before the one in which they lose it.

Article 33, paragraph (2), item (iv)
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information-collecting services

情報収集等業務(じょうほうしゅうしゅうとうぎょうむ)

Work of collecting, organising or analysing information on the participants and instructors of a corporate-type pension plan (企業型年金加入者等) that is needed to pay its benefits, other than operational management work (運営管理業務); an employer may entrust all or part of it to the Pension Fund Association (企業年金連合会).

Article 48-2, paragraph (1)
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asset management and investment institution, etc.

資産管理運用機関等(しさんかんりうんようきかんとう)

An asset management and investment institution or fund (資産管理運用機関等) of a defined benefit corporate pension plan (確定給付企業年金), as Article 30, paragraph (3) of the Defined-Benefit Corporate Pension Act provides: the body that pays that plan's benefits to those who claim them once they have been awarded.

確定給付企業年金法第三十条第三項に規定する資産管理運用機関等

Article 54-4, paragraph (2)
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person whose assets were transferred to the Association

連合会移換者(れんごうかいいかんしゃ)

A person whose individual assets (個人別管理資産) a corporate-type pension plan's asset management institution has moved to the Association (連合会) under Article 83, paragraph (1) because they were not moved elsewhere within six months of the person leaving the plan or of the plan ending, other than anyone who has since become a participant of a corporate-type pension plan or a participant or investment instructor of the individual-type pension plan.

Article 55, paragraph (2), item (vi)
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category II participant

第二号加入者(だいにごうかにゅうしゃ)

A participant of the individual-type pension plan (個人型年金加入者) who is a person listed in Article 62, paragraph (1), item (ii): a category 2 insured person under the National Pension Act (第二号被保険者), other than a participant of a corporate-type pension plan who pays their own contributions to it or another person a Cabinet Order (政令) specifies.

個人型年金加入者であって、同項第二号に掲げるもの

Article 69, paragraph (1)
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residual assets

残余財産(ざんよざいさん)

The residual assets of a terminated defined benefit corporate pension plan (確定給付企業年金) that Article 89, paragraph (6) of the Defined-Benefit Corporate Pension Act requires to be distributed to the persons the plan owed benefits to on the day it ended, other than assets a Cabinet Order (政令) excludes; the Association (連合会) may take them in by transfer.

確定給付企業年金法第八十九条第六項に規定する残余財産

Article 74-2, paragraph (1)
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formulation committee

策定委員会(さくていいいんかい)

The Individual-Type Pension Plan Rules Formulation Committee (個人型年金規約策定委員会) set up within the Association (連合会), whose resolution the Association needs to draw up or change the individual-type pension plan rules and for the budget, business report and accounts of its work under this Act.

Article 75, paragraph (1)
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Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare, etc.

厚生労働大臣等(こうせいろうどうだいじんとう)

In the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 109 of 2007, the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare, a Director of a Regional Bureau of Health and Welfare or of a Regional Branch Bureau, or the Japan Pension Service (日本年金機構), to whom acts of the Director-General of the Social Insurance Agency and the other social insurance offices (社会保険庁長官等) are transferred.

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Director-General of the Social Insurance Agency, etc.

社会保険庁長官等(しゃかいほけんちょうちょうかんとう)

In the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 109 of 2007, the Director-General of the Social Insurance Agency (社会保険庁長官), a Director of a Regional Social Insurance Bureau (地方社会保険事務局長) or the head of a Social Insurance Office (社会保険事務所長).

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item (iv) effective date

第四号施行日(だいよんごうしこうび)

The date the provisions listed in Article 1, item (iv) of the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 66 of 2016 come into effect, among them Article 3 of that Act, which amended the Defined Contribution Pension Act: a date set by Cabinet Order (政令) within two years of that Act's promulgation (公布, its official publication).

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category I EPI insured person

第一号厚生年金被保険者(だいいちごうこうせいねんきんひほけんしゃ)

A category 1 insured person under Employees' Pension Insurance (厚生年金保険) as provided in Article 2-5, paragraph (1), item (i) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act.

Article 2, paragraph (6)
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ship

船舶(せんぱく)

A ship as Article 6, paragraph (1), item (iii) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act provides: a ship manned by persons employed as mariners (船員) by a shipowner (船舶所有者), which is an applicable place of business (適用事業所) under that Act.

Article 3, paragraph (3), item (ii)
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amount of assets to be returned

返還資産額(へんかんしさんがく)

The amount of assets returned to the employer where a corporate-type pension plan's rules provide that, when a participant leaves after less than three years at the place of business, all or part of their individual assets (個人別管理資産) that a Cabinet Order (政令) treats as corresponding to the employer's contributions (事業主掛金) goes back to that employer.

Article 3, paragraph (3), item (x)
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place of business

事業所(じぎょうしょ)

A place of business or office (事業所又は事務所) — the word standing for both from Article 10, paragraph (1), item (ii) of this Act on.

Article 10, paragraph (1), item (ii)
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employer's contribution, etc.

事業主掛金等(じぎょうぬしかけきんとう)

In Article 25-2, either the employer's contribution (事業主掛金) or a participant's own contribution (企業型年金加入者掛金) to a corporate-type pension plan (企業型年金).

Article 25-2, paragraph (1), item (i)
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Pre-amendment Defined Contribution Pension Act

改正前確定拠出年金法(かいせいまえかくていきょしゅつねんきんほう)

In Article 5 of the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 66 of 2016, the Defined Contribution Pension Act as it stood before Article 3 of that Act amended it.

Supplementary Provisions, Article 5, paragraph (1)
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2012 Integration Act

平成二十四年一元化法(へいせいにじゅうよねんいちげんかほう)

Short name, in the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 40 of 2020, for the Act Partially Amending the Employees' Pension Insurance Act, etc. to Unify, etc. the Employees' Pension Systems (Act No. 63 of 2012), the 2012 Act to unify the employees' pension systems (被用者年金制度).

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life insurance company

生命保険会社(せいめいほけんがいしゃ)

A life insurance company as Article 2, paragraph (3) of the Insurance Business Act defines it — an insurance company holding a licence for life insurance business — or a foreign insurance company holding a licence for foreign life insurance business, as paragraph (8) of that Article defines it (外国生命保険会社等).

保険業法(平成七年法律第百五号)第二条第三項に規定する生命保険会社及び同条第八項に規定する外国生命保険会社等

Article 8, paragraph (1), item (ii)
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non-life insurance company

損害保険会社(そんがいほけんがいしゃ)

A non-life insurance company as Article 2, paragraph (4) of the Insurance Business Act defines it — an insurance company holding a licence for non-life insurance business — or a foreign insurance company holding a licence for foreign non-life insurance business, as paragraph (9) of that Article defines it (外国損害保険会社等).

保険業法第二条第四項に規定する損害保険会社及び同条第九項に規定する外国損害保険会社等

Article 8, paragraph (1), item (iv)
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subject investment method

対象運用方法(たいしょううんようほうほう)

In Article 23 and Article 23-2, paragraph (1), the investment methods a Cabinet Order (政令) specifies from among those Article 23, paragraph (1) lists — deposits or savings with a bank or other financial institution, trusts, buying and selling securities, life insurance or life mutual aid (生命共済) premiums, non-life insurance premiums, and other contracts meeting requirements a Cabinet Order sets, such as investor protection — from which the options presented to a corporate-type pension plan's participants and instructors are chosen.

Article 23, paragraph (1)
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presented investment methods

提示運用方法(ていじうんようほうほう)

In Articles 25 and 26, the investment methods presented to the participants and instructors of a corporate-type pension plan under Article 23, paragraph (1), including the default investment method (指定運用方法) where one has been presented under Article 23-2, paragraph (1).

Article 25, paragraph (2)
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specified period

特定期間(とくていきかん)

In Article 25-2, a period set by a corporate-type pension plan's rules (企業型年金規約), of at least three months from the first payment of contributions (事業主掛金等) after a participant joins the plan while a default investment method (指定運用方法) is presented, or after one is first presented to a participant already in the plan; if the participant still gives no investment instructions when it ends, they must be notified of the default method.

Article 25-2, paragraph (1)
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grace period

猶予期間(ゆうよきかん)

In Article 25-2, a period set by a corporate-type pension plan's rules (企業型年金規約), of at least two weeks from the end of the specified period (特定期間), after which a participant notified of the default investment method (指定運用方法) who still gives no investment instructions is treated as having chosen it for all their uninstructed assets (未指図個人別管理資産).

Article 25-2, paragraph (2)
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uninstructed assets managed per individual

未指図個人別管理資産(みさしずこじんべつかんりしさん)

In Article 25-2, the part of a participant's individual assets (個人別管理資産) for which no investment instructions have been given by the end of the grace period (猶予期間) after the notice under paragraph (1), together with contributions (事業主掛金等) paid after that day for which no instructions have been given.

個人別管理資産のうち、第一項の規定による通知に係る猶予期間が終了する日までに運用の指図が行われていないもの及び同日後に納付される事業主掛金等について運用の指図が行われていないもの

Article 25-2, paragraph (3)
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pension benefits

年金給付(ねんきんきゅうふ)

In Article 31, those benefits (給付) of a corporate-type pension plan (企業型年金) that are paid as a pension (年金).

Article 31, paragraph (1)
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illness or injury

傷病(しょうびょう)

An illness or injury, together with any illness it causes.

Article 37, paragraph (1)
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day of initial examination

初診日(しょしんび)

The day a person was first examined by a doctor or dentist for the illness or injury (傷病) for which they claim a disability benefit (障害給付金) of a corporate-type pension plan (企業型年金) under Article 37.

Article 37, paragraph (1)
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day of disability assessment

障害認定日(しょうがいにんていび)

The day one year and six months after the day of initial examination (初診日) for an illness or injury (傷病), or the day within that time on which it is cured, including the day its symptoms settle with no further benefit expected from treatment; a person who is or was a participant of a corporate-type pension plan (企業型年金加入者), with individual assets (個人別管理資産) still in it, may claim a disability benefit (障害給付金) if, between this day and the day before they turn 75, the illness or injury leaves them disabled to the degree a Cabinet Order (政令) sets (Article 37).

Article 37, paragraph (1)
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merger, etc.

合併等(がっぺいとう)

In Article 54-6, a merger, a company split or another act an Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (厚生労働省令) specifies, carried out under the Companies Act or another Act by the employer of a place of business running a corporate-type pension plan (実施事業所).

Article 54-6, paragraph (1)
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Organization

機構(きこう)

In Articles 54-6 and 54-7, the Organization for Workers' Retirement Allowance Mutual Aid (独立行政法人勤労者退職金共済機構), an incorporated administrative agency (独立行政法人), to which an employer may ask for the individual assets of former participants of its corporate-type pension plan to be moved after a merger or similar act.

Article 54-6, paragraph (1)
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person, etc. making corporate-type pension plan contributions

企業型掛金拠出者等(きぎょうがたかけきんきょしゅつしゃとう)

In Article 62, a participant of a corporate-type pension plan (企業型年金加入者) who pays their own contributions to it (企業型年金加入者掛金), or another person a Cabinet Order (政令) specifies: such a person is left out of the category 2 insured persons of the National Pension (第二号被保険者) who may join the individual-type pension plan (個人型年金) under paragraph (1), item (ii), and a participant of that plan who becomes one loses that status under paragraph (4), item (vi).

Article 62, paragraph (1), item (ii)
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automatic public transmission

自動公衆送信(じどうこうしゅうそうしん)

Automatically transmitting information in response to requests from members of the public so that the public receives it directly, other than broadcasting (放送) or cable broadcasting (有線放送).

公衆によって直接受信されることを目的として公衆からの求めに応じ自動的に送信を行うことをいい、放送又は有線放送に該当するものを除く

Article 94, paragraph (1)
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beneficiary

受給権者(じゅきゅうけんしゃ)

A person who holds the right to receive a benefit (給付) under the Defined Contribution Pension Act.

Article 112, paragraph (1)
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instructor of a corporate-type pension plan, etc.

企業型年金運用指図者等(きぎょうがたねんきんうんようさしずしゃとう)

In Article 113, on reporting deaths, an investment instructor of a corporate-type pension plan (企業型年金運用指図者), a participant or investment instructor of the individual-type pension plan (個人型年金加入者, 個人型年金運用指図者), or a person whose individual assets were moved to the Association (連合会移換者), each only where they have individual assets (個人別管理資産) in that plan.

Article 113, paragraph (1)
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effective date

施行日(しこうび)

The date this Act (Act No. 88 of 2001) itself comes into effect.

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the New Act

新法(しんぽう)

This Act as amended by Article 118 of Act No. 102 of 2005.

Supplementary Provisions, Article 111, paragraph (1)
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the Former Act

旧法(きゅうほう)

This Act as it stood before Article 118 of Act No. 102 of 2005 amended it.

Supplementary Provisions, Article 111, paragraph (1)
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Pre-amendment Defined Contribution Pension Act

改正前確定拠出年金法(かいせいまえかくていきょしゅつねんきんほう)

In Article 3 of the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 66 of 2016, the Defined Contribution Pension Act as it stood before Article 2 of that Act amended it, leaving aside the amendments listed in Article 1, item (iii) of those supplementary provisions.

Supplementary Provisions, Article 3, paragraph (1)
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Amended Defined Contribution Pension Act

改正後確定拠出年金法(かいせいごかくていきょしゅつねんきんほう)

This Act as amended by Article 3 of Act No. 66 of 2016.

Supplementary Provisions, Article 5, paragraph (3)
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participant of an individual-type pension plan

個人型年金加入者(こじんがたねんきんかにゅうしゃ)

A participant in the individual-type pension plan (個人型年金) that the National Pension Fund Association designated for it (連合会) runs: a person who pays contributions to that plan and gives instructions on how their individual assets (個人別管理資産) in it are invested, as Article 2, paragraph (10) of the Defined Contribution Pension Act defines it.

確定拠出年金法第二条第十項に規定する個人型年金加入者

Supplementary Provisions, Article 28, paragraph (1)
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Social Security Agreements Special Provisions Act

協定実施特例法(きょうていじっしとくれいほう)

Short name for the Act on Special Provisions for the Employees' Pension Insurance Act, etc. Incidental to Enforcement of International Social Security Agreements.

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category IV EPI insured person

第四号厚生年金被保険者(だいよんごうこうせいねんきんひほけんしゃ)

A category 4 insured person under Employees' Pension Insurance (厚生年金保険) as provided in Article 2-5, paragraph (1), item (iv) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act.

Article 2, paragraph (6)
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base illness or injury

基準傷病(きじゅんしょうびょう)

In Article 37, paragraph (2), an illness or injury (傷病) of a person who is or was a participant of a corporate-type pension plan (企業型年金加入者), with individual assets (個人別管理資産) still in it, who on the day of its first examination (初診日) was already disabled by another illness or injury; a disability benefit (障害給付金) can be claimed if, between its day of disability assessment (障害認定日) and the day before the person turns 75, the two disabilities combined first reach the degree a Cabinet Order (政令) sets, provided its first examination came on or after those of all the others.

Article 37, paragraph (2)
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effective date

施行日(しこうび)

The date Act No. 154 of 2004, the amending Act these supplementary provisions (附則) belong to, comes into effect.

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the respective Acts as amended

改正後の各法律(かいせいごのかくほうりつ)

Each of the laws as amended by the amending Act these supplementary provisions belong to.

Supplementary Provisions, Article 2, paragraph (1)
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Former Defined Contribution Pension Act

旧確定拠出年金法(きゅうかくていきょしゅつねんきんほう)

This Act as it stood before Article 29 of Act No. 74 of 2025 amended it.

Supplementary Provisions, Article 32, paragraph (1)
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