# 確定拠出年金法 / Defined Contribution Pension Act — 第十二条 (Article 12) - Law: 確定拠出年金法 (Defined Contribution Pension Act), 平成十三年法律第八十八号 - English title "Defined Contribution Pension Act": Ministry of Justice translation - Kind: Act — the distinction between 法律 (Act), 政令 (Cabinet Order), 省令 (Ministerial Order) and 条例 (local ordinance) decides who may issue it and what it may say. - Provision: 第十二条 (Article 12)（企業型年金加入者の資格の得喪に関する特例） — address `art-12` - Text in force since: 2026-04-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-12 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-12 - Every provision below carries its address and both URLs on the line under it. - Japanese text: e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁). English: as marked on each line below. Only the Japanese as published by the government has legal effect; the text below is a copy of it. Every English rendering below is a translation and says which kind: the Ministry of Justice's translation, or this site's machine translation, whose model and date the Sources list names. They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第十二条（企業型年金加入者の資格の得喪に関する特例） — (Special Provisions on Acquisition or Loss of the Status as a Participant of a corporate-type pension plan) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-12 · https://japanlaw.org/en/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-12 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-12 **第一項** 企業型年金加入者の資格を取得した月にその資格を喪失した者は、その資格を取得した日にさかのぼって、企業型年金加入者でなかったものとみなす。 art-12/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-12/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-12/par-1 If a person loses the status as a participant of a corporate-type pension plan during the month when the person acquired that status, the person is retroactively deemed not to have been a participant of a corporate-type pension plan from the day on which the person acquired the status. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 確定拠出年金法 第十五条第四項（企業型年金運用指図者） — https://japanlaw.org/en/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-15/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-15/par-4 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 確定拠出年金法 — the text in force from 2026-04-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/413AC0000000088/20260401_507AC0000000074), retrieved 2026-10-19 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Defined Contribution Pension Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4371/tb), retrieved 2026-10-19 - This site's parser, version 203 — 確定拠出年金法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-19