Article 128Operations of a National Pension Fund

③A National Pension Fund must, when it concludes, with a trust company (limited to one that has obtained a license under Article 3 or Article 53, paragraph (1) of the Trust Business Act (Act No. 154 of 2004); the same applies below), a financial institution engaged in trust business (meaning a financial institution that has obtained the approval under Article 1, paragraph (1) of the Act on Engagement in Trust Business by Financial Institutions (Act No. 43 of 1943); the same applies below), a life insurance company, a federation of agricultural cooperatives (limited to one whose district is the whole country and that conducts the business set forth in Article 10, paragraph (1), item (x) of the Agricultural Co-operatives Act (Act No. 132 of 1947); the same applies below), or a federation of fishery cooperatives for mutual aid (limited to one whose district is the whole country; the same applies below), or a financial instruments business operator (meaning a financial instruments business operator as defined in Article 2, paragraph (9) of the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act (Act No. 25 of 1948); the same applies below), a contract of trust, insurance or mutual aid, or a discretionary investment contract (meaning a contract prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (8), item (xii), sub-item (b) of that Article; the same applies below), concerning the expenses required for the pension or lump-sum benefit paid by that National Pension Fund, do so as provided by Cabinet Order.