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 satisfy the following requirements, the minister is to give the approval referred to in that paragraph:
the rules provide for the particulars set forth in the items of paragraph (3) of the preceding Article;
前条第三項各号に掲げる事項が定められていること。
if certain qualifications to become a participant of a corporate-type pension plan have been specified for the category I or IV EPI insured person employed at the place of business implementing the plan, where a defined benefit corporate pension plan or a retirement allowance system is implemented, those qualifications are not unreasonably discriminatory against specific persons in light of the scope of persons covered by the defined benefit corporate pension plan and the retirement allowance system;
実施事業所に使用される第一号等厚生年金被保険者が企業型年金加入者となることについて一定の資格を定めた場合であって、当該実施事業所において確定給付企業年金又は退職手当制度を実施しているときは、当該資格は、確定給付企業年金及び退職手当制度が適用される者の範囲に照らし、特定の者について不当に差別的なものでないこと。
the rules provide that the employer's contribution is to be made in a fixed amount or in an amount calculated by the method of multiplying the amount of salary by a certain rate or calculated by a similar method;
事業主掛金について、定額又は給与に一定の率を乗ずる方法その他これに類する方法により算定した額によることが定められていること。
the number and types of the investment methods to be presented do not run counter to the provisions of Article 23, paragraphs (1) and (2);
the rules allow a participant of a corporate-type pension plan or an instructor of a corporate-type pension plan (hereinafter referred to as a "participant or instructor of a corporate-type pension plan") to give instructions on investment at least once every three months;
企業型年金加入者及び企業型年金運用指図者（以下「企業型年金加入者等」という。）による運用の指図は、少なくとも三月に一回、行い得るものであること。
the method for calculating the amount of benefits of the corporate-type pension plan conforms to the standards specified by Cabinet Order;
企業型年金の給付の額の算定方法が政令で定める基準に合致していること。
the rules provide that, if a participant of a corporate-type pension plan's assets managed per individual are to be transferred in a case that the participant had been employed at the place of business implementing the plan for not less than three years as of the day of losing the status as a participant of a corporate-type pension plan or that the participant has the right to receive disability benefits under the corporate-type pension plan, all of those assets are to be transferred; and
any other requirements specified by Cabinet Order.
その他政令で定める要件
When the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare gives the approval referred to in paragraph (1) of the preceding Article, the minister must promptly give notice to that effect to the employer that has filed the application.
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 business implementing the plan of the rules for which the approval referred to in that paragraph has been obtained (hereinafter referred to as the "corporate-type pension plan rules").
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。
The employer must keep the corporate-type pension plan rules at each place of business implementing the plan and have the category I or IV EPI insured person whom the employer employs inspect the rules at their request, pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.
事業主は、厚生労働省令で定めるところにより、企業型年金規約を実施事業所ごとに備え置き、その使用する第一号等厚生年金被保険者の求めに応じ、これを閲覧させなければならない。
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(Selection and Presentation of Investment Methods)
A defined contribution pension plan operational management institution that provides investment-related services relating to participants or instructors of a corporate-type pension plan…
企業型年金加入者等に係る運用関連業務を行う確定拠出年金運営管理機関（運用関連業務を行う事業主を含む。以下「企業型運用関連運営管理機関等」という。）は、政令で定めるところにより、次に掲げる運用の方法のうち政令で定めるもの（次条第一項において「対象運用方法」という。）を…
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The selection of investment methods under the provisions of the preceding paragraph must be made in a manner that the characteristics of the expected returns on the investment…
前項の規定による運用の方法の選定は、その運用から生ずると見込まれる収益の率、収益の変動の可能性その他の収益の性質が類似していないことその他政令で定める基準に従って行われなければならない。
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When an employer with an EPI-applicable place of business intends to implement a corporate-type pension plan, the employer must prepare rules concerning the corporate-type pension plan and obtain…
厚生年金適用事業所の事業主は、企業型年金を実施しようとするときは、企業型年金を実施しようとする厚生年金適用事業所に使用される第一号等厚生年金被保険者（第九条第二項第二号に該当する者を除く。以下この項、次条第三項（第五条第四項、第六条第二項及び第四十六条第三項において準用する場合を含む。）及び第四項、第五条第二項（第六…
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The rules concerning a corporate-type pension plan must provide for the following particulars:
企業型年金に係る規約においては、次に掲げる事項を定めなければならない。
Open this provisioncorporate-type pension plan
「企業型年金」
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.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (2)· applies throughout the law
category I or IV EPI insured
「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
participant of a corporate-type pension plan
「企業型年金加入者」
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.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (8)· 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
assets managed per individual
「個人別管理資産」
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.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (12)· 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)
employer's contribution
「事業主掛金」
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.
Short name set inArticle 3, paragraph (3), item (vii)
defined benefit corporate pension plan
「確定給付企業年金」
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.
Defined inArticle 3, paragraph (4), item (iii)
participant or instructor of a corporate-type pension plan
「企業型年金加入者等」
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.
Short name set inArticle 4, paragraph (1), item (v)
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)