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Article 48-2Entrustment of Information-Collecting Services and Material-Providing Services

第四十八条の二（情報収集等業務及び資料提供等業務の委託）

An employer may entrust all or part of the services to collect, organize, or analyze the information on participants or instructors of a corporate-type pension plan which is necessary for paying benefits (excluding operational management services; hereinafter referred to as "information-collecting services") and the services to take necessary measures, such as providing basic materials on investment of assets, in order to contribute to the instructions on investment by participants or instructors of a corporate-type pension plan (hereinafter referred to as "material-providing services") to the Pension Fund Association (meaning the Pension Fund Association prescribed in Article 91-2, paragraph (1) of the Defined Benefit Corporate Pension Act; the same applies hereinafter).

事業主は、給付の支給を行うために必要となる企業型年金加入者等に関する情報の収集、整理又は分析の業務（運営管理業務を除く。以下「情報収集等業務」という。）及び企業型年金加入者等による運用の指図に資するために行う資産の運用に関する基礎的な資料の提供その他の必要な措置に係る業務（以下「資料提供等業務」という。）の全部又は一部を、企業年金連合会（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をいう。以下同じ。）に委託することができる。

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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)See it in the glossary
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)See it in the glossary
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)See it in the glossary
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)See it in the glossary
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)See it in the glossary
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)See it in the glossary
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)See it in the glossary
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)See it in the glossary

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as amended by Act Partially Amending the National Pension Act, etc., and Other Matters, to Strengthen the Functions of the Pension System in Light of Socioeconomic Changes (Act No. 74 of 2025)社会経済の変化を踏まえた年金制度の機能強化のための国民年金法等の一部を改正する等の法律

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