# 確定拠出年金法 / Defined Contribution Pension Act — 第二十条 (Article 20) - 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: 第二十条 (Article 20)（拠出限度額） — address `art-20` - Text in force since: 2026-04-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-20 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-20 - 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. --- ### 第二十条（拠出限度額） — (Amount of Contribution Limit) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-20 · https://japanlaw.org/en/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-20 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-20 **第一項** 各企業型年金加入者に係る一年間の事業主掛金の額（企業型年金加入者が企業型年金加入者掛金を拠出する場合にあっては、事業主掛金の額と企業型年金加入者掛金の額との合計額。以下この条において同じ。）の総額は、拠出限度額（一年間に拠出することができる事業主掛金の額の総額の上限として、企業型年金加入者の確定給付企業年金の加入者の資格の有無等を勘案して政令で定める額をいう。）を超えてはならない。 art-20/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-20/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-20/par-1 The total annual amount of the employer's contributions to be made for each participant of a corporate-type pension plan (if the participant of a corporate-type pension plan contributes to a participant of a corporate-type pension plan's contribution, the sum of the amount of the employer's contributions and the amount of the participant of a corporate-type pension plan's contribution; hereinafter the same applies in this Article) must not exceed the amount of the contribution limit (meaning the amount specified by Cabinet Order as the maximum total amount of the employer's contributions that may be made per year, taking into account whether the participant of a corporate-type pension plan has the eligibility as a participant of a defined benefit corporate pension plan and other factors). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-20/par-1: この条 → 確定拠出年金法 第二十条 (Article 20), art-20 — https://japanlaw.org/en/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-20 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-20 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 確定拠出年金法 第二十条第一項（拠出限度額） — https://japanlaw.org/en/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-20/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-20/par-1 --- ## 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