When an employer makes a change to the corporate-type pension plan rules (limited to the minor change specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare as referred to in paragraph (1) of the preceding Article), the employer must give notification of that change to the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare without delay; provided, however, that this does not apply to a change to the matters set forth in Article 3, paragraph (3), item (v) or any other matter specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.
The provisions of Article 4, paragraph (3) and paragraphs (2) and (3) of the preceding Article apply mutatis mutandis to the change referred to in the preceding paragraph; provided, however, that the provisions of paragraphs (2) and (3) of the preceding Article do not apply if the change is the minor change specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare as referred to in paragraph (1) of that Article, which is specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare as being particularly minor.
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(Approval of Rules)
the name and address of the asset management institution;
資産管理機関の名称及び住所
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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。
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When an employer intends to make a change to the corporate-type pension plan rules (excluding the minor change specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare)…
事業主は、企業型年金規約の変更（厚生労働省令で定める軽微な変更を除く。）をしようとするときは、その変更について厚生労働大臣の承認を受けなければならない。
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An application for the approval for the change referred to in the preceding paragraph must be filed by obtaining consent of a labor union consisting of the majority of the category I or IV EPI…
前項の変更の承認の申請は、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行わなければならない。
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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…
前項の場合において、実施事業所が二以上であるときは、同項の同意は、各実施事業所について得なければならない。ただし、第一項の変更が全ての実施事業所に係るものでない場合であって、規約において、あらかじめ、当該変更に係る事項を定めているときは、当該変更に係る実施事業所について前項の同意があったときは…
Open this provisionWhen an employer makes a change to the corporate-type pension plan rules (limited to the minor change specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare as referred to in paragraph (1)…
事業主は、企業型年金規約の変更（前条第一項の厚生労働省令で定める軽微な変更に限る。）をしたときは、遅滞なく、これを厚生労働大臣に届け出なければならない。ただし、第三条第三項第五号に掲げる事項その他厚生労働省令で定める事項の変更については、この限りでない。
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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)
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)