# 確定拠出年金法 / Defined Contribution Pension Act — 第三十七条 (Article 37) - 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: 第三十七条 (Article 37)（支給要件） — address `art-37` - Text in force since: 2026-04-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-37 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-37 - 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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第三十七条（支給要件） — (Requirements for Payment) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-37 · https://japanlaw.org/en/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-37 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-37 **第一項** 企業型年金加入者又は企業型年金加入者であった者（当該企業型年金に個人別管理資産がある者に限る。）が、疾病にかかり、又は負傷し、かつ、その疾病又は負傷及びこれらに起因する疾病（以下「傷病」という。）について初めて医師又は歯科医師の診療を受けた日（以下「初診日」という。）から起算して一年六月を経過した日（その期間内にその傷病が治った場合においては、その治った日（その症状が固定し治療の効果が期待できない状態に至った日を含む。）とし、以下「障害認定日」という。）から七十五歳に達する日の前日までの間において、その傷病により政令で定める程度の障害の状態に該当するに至ったときは、その者は、その期間内に企業型記録関連運営管理機関等に障害給付金の支給を請求することができる。 art-37/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-37/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-37/par-1 If a person who is or was a participant of a corporate-type pension plan (limited to a person who has assets managed per individual under the corporate-type pension plan) has contracted an illness or suffered an injury and has come to have a disability of a degree of severity specified by Cabinet Order due to that injury or illness or an illness caused by that illness or injury (hereinafter referred to as an " illness or injury") during the period from the day on which one year and six months have passed since the day on which the person received the first medical examination from a doctor or dentist for that illness or injury (hereinafter referred to as the "day of initial examination") (if the illness or injury has healed on any day within this period (including a day on which the symptoms thereof have stabilized to a level where no curative effect is expected), the period from that day; the starting day of the period is hereinafter referred to as the "day of disability assessment"), until the day preceding the day on which the person reaches the age of 75, the person is entitled to claim the payment of disability benefits from a corporate-type pension plan records-related operational management institution, etc. during that period. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 企業型年金加入者又は企業型年金加入者であった者（当該企業型年金に個人別管理資産がある者に限る。）が、疾病にかかり、又は負傷し、かつ、その傷病（以下この項において「基準傷病」という。）に係る初診日において基準傷病以外の傷病により障害の状態にある場合であって、基準傷病に係る障害認定日から七十五歳に達する日の前日までの間において、初めて、基準傷病による障害と他の障害とを併合して前項の政令で定める程度の障害の状態に該当するに至ったとき（基準傷病の初診日が、基準傷病以外の傷病（基準傷病以外の傷病が二以上ある場合は、基準傷病以外の全ての傷病）の初診日以降であるときに限る。）は、その者は、その期間内に企業型記録関連運営管理機関等に障害給付金の支給を請求することができる。 art-37/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-37/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-37/par-2 If a person who is or was a participant of a corporate-type pension plan (limited to a person who has assets managed per individual under the corporate-type pension plan) has contracted an illness or suffered an injury and, as of the day of initial examination for that illness or injury (hereinafter referred to as the "base illness or injury" in this paragraph), had a disability caused by an illness or injury other than the base illness or injury, and if, during the period from the day of disability assessment for the base illness or injury until the day preceding the day on which the person reaches the age of 75, the person has come to have the disability of a degree of severity specified by Cabinet Order referred to in the preceding paragraph, for the first time, by combining the disability caused by the base illness or injury and the other disability (limited to the case where the day of initial examination for the base illness or injury is on or after the day of initial examination for the illness or injury other than the base illness or injury (if there are two or more injuries or illnesses other than the base illness or injury, the days of initial examination for all of the injuries or illnesses other than the base illness or injury)), the person is entitled to claim the payment of disability benefits from a corporate-type pension plan records-related operational management institution, etc. during that period. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 前二項の請求があったときは、資産管理機関は、企業型記録関連運営管理機関等の裁定に基づき、その請求をした者に障害給付金を支給する。 art-37/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-37/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-37/par-3 When the claim referred to in either of the preceding two paragraphs has been filed, the asset management institution pays disability benefits to the person who filed the claim, based on a ruling by the corporate-type pension plan records-related operational management institution, etc. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-37/par-2: この項 → 確定拠出年金法 第三十七条第二項 (Article 37, paragraph (2)), art-37/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-37/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-37/par-2 - art-37/par-2: 前項 → 確定拠出年金法 第三十七条第一項 (Article 37, paragraph (1)), art-37/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-37/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-37/par-1 - art-37/par-3: 前二項 → 確定拠出年金法 第三十七条第一項 (Article 37, paragraph (1)), art-37/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-37/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-37/par-1 - art-37/par-3: 前二項 → 確定拠出年金法 第三十七条第二項 (Article 37, paragraph (2)), art-37/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-37/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-37/par-2 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 確定拠出年金法 第三十七条第二項（支給要件） — https://japanlaw.org/en/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-37/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-37/par-2 - 確定拠出年金法 第三十七条第三項（支給要件） — https://japanlaw.org/en/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-37/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-37/par-3 - 確定拠出年金法 第七十三条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-73/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-73/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