# 確定拠出年金法 / Defined Contribution Pension Act — 第十八条 (Article 18) - 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: 第十八条 (Article 18)（企業型年金加入者等原簿） — address `art-18` - Text in force since: 2026-04-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-18 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-18 - 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. --- ### 第十八条（企業型年金加入者等原簿） — (Register of Participants or Instructors of a Corporate-type Pension Plan) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-18 · https://japanlaw.org/en/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-18 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-18 **第一項** 企業型記録関連運営管理機関等は、厚生労働省令で定めるところにより、企業型年金加入者等に関する原簿を備え、これに企業型年金加入者等の氏名及び住所、資格の取得及び喪失の年月日、個人別管理資産額その他厚生労働省令で定める事項を記録し、これを保存しなければならない。 art-18/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-18/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-18/par-1 Pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, a corporate-type pension plan records-related operational management institution, etc. must prepare a register of participants or instructors of the corporate-type pension plan, record therein the names and addresses, the dates of acquisition and loss of the status, the amounts of assets managed per individual, and other particulars specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare with regard to participants or instructors of the corporate-type pension plan, and keep it. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 企業型年金加入者及び企業型年金加入者であった者（死亡一時金を受けることができる者を含む。）は、企業型記録関連運営管理機関等に対し、前項の原簿の閲覧を請求し、又は当該原簿に記録された事項について照会することができる。この場合においては、企業型記録関連運営管理機関等は、正当な理由がある場合を除き、閲覧の請求又は照会の回答を拒んではならない。 art-18/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-18/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-18/par-2 A person who is or was a participant of a corporate-type pension plan (including a person who is eligible to receive a lump-sum death benefit) may make a request for inspection of the register referred to in the preceding paragraph or make an inquiry on the particulars recorded in that register to the corporate-type pension plan records-related operational management institution, etc. In this case, the corporate-type pension plan records-related operational management institution, etc. must not refuse the request for inspection or refuse to answer the inquiry, unless there are legitimate grounds therefor. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-18/par-2: 前項 → 確定拠出年金法 第十八条第一項 (Article 18, paragraph (1)), art-18/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-18/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-18/par-1 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 確定拠出年金法 第十八条第二項（企業型年金加入者等原簿） — https://japanlaw.org/en/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-18/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-18/par-2 --- ## 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