When an employer intends to terminate a corporate-type pension plan, the employer must obtain approval of the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare by obtaining the consent of a labor union consisting of the majority of the category I or IV EPI insured persons employed at the place of business implementing the plan, if there is any such labor union, or the consent of the person representative of the majority of the category I or IV EPI insured persons, if there is no labor union consisting of the majority of the category I or IV EPI insured persons.
事業主は、企業型年金を終了しようとするときは、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、厚生労働大臣の承認を受けなければならない。
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.
The provisions of Article 4, paragraphs (2) and (3) apply mutatis mutandis to the case where an application for the approval for termination referred to in paragraph (1) has been filed.
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(Standards for Approval)
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…
厚生労働大臣は、前条第一項の承認をしたときは、速やかに、その旨をその申請をした事業主に通知しなければならない。
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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。
Open this provisionWhen an employer intends to terminate a corporate-type pension plan, the employer must obtain approval of the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare by obtaining the consent of a labor union…
事業主は、企業型年金を終了しようとするときは、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、厚生労働大臣の承認を受けなければならない。
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
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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)