# 確定拠出年金法 / Defined Contribution Pension Act — 第五条 (Article 5) - 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: 第五条 (Article 5)（規約の変更） — address `art-5` - Text in force since: 2026-04-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-5 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-5 - 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. --- ### 第五条（規約の変更） — (Change to the Rules) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-5 · https://japanlaw.org/en/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-5 **第一項** 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。 art-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-5/par-1 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), the employer must obtain approval of the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare for that change. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 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。 art-5/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-5/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-5/par-2 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 insured person employed at the place of business implementing the plan, if there is any such labor union, or consent of the person representative of the majority of the category I or IV EPI insured person, if there is no labor union consisting of the majority of the category I or IV EPI insured person. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 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、当該変更に係る実施事業所以外の実施事業所についても同項の同意があったものとみなすことができる。 art-5/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-5/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-5/par-3 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 business implementing the plan; provided, however, that if the change referred to in paragraph (1) does not involve all places of business implementing the plan, and the rules have provided for matters concerning that change in advance, once the consent referred to in the preceding paragraph has been obtained for the place of business implementing the plan subject to that change, it may be deemed that the consent of not only the places of business implementing the plan subject to that change but also the other places of business implementing the plan has also been obtained. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第四項** 前条の規定は、第一項の変更の承認の申請があった場合について準用する。この場合において、同条第三項中「第一号等厚生年金被保険者」とあるのは、「第一号等厚生年金被保険者（企業型年金運用指図者に係る事項に重要な変更を加えたときは、企業型年金運用指図者を含む。）」と読み替えるものとする。 art-5/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-5/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-5/par-4 The provisions of the preceding Article apply mutatis mutandis to the case where an application for the approval or a change referred to in paragraph (1) has been filed. In this case, the phrase "category I or IV EPI insured person" in paragraph (3) of the preceding Article is deemed to be replaced with "category I or IV EPI insured person (including the instructor of a corporate-type pension plans, if an important change has been made to a matter concerning an instructor of a corporate-type pension plans)". Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-5/par-2: 前項 → 確定拠出年金法 第五条第一項 (Article 5, paragraph (1)), art-5/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-5/par-1 - art-5/par-3: 前項 → 確定拠出年金法 第五条第二項 (Article 5, paragraph (2)), art-5/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-5/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-5/par-2 - art-5/par-3: 第一項 → 確定拠出年金法 第五条第一項 (Article 5, paragraph (1)), art-5/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-5/par-1 - art-5/par-4: 前条 → 確定拠出年金法 第四条 (Article 4), art-4 — https://japanlaw.org/en/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-4 - art-5/par-4: 第一項 → 確定拠出年金法 第五条第一項 (Article 5, paragraph (1)), art-5/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-5/par-1 - art-5/par-4: 同条第三項 → 確定拠出年金法 第四条第三項 (Article 4, paragraph (3)), art-4/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-4/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-4/par-3 ## Cited by 6 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 確定拠出年金法 第三条第一項（規約の承認） — https://japanlaw.org/en/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-3/par-1 - 確定拠出年金法 第五条第二項（規約の変更） — https://japanlaw.org/en/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-5/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-5/par-2 - 確定拠出年金法 第五条第三項（規約の変更） — https://japanlaw.org/en/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-5/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-5/par-3 - 確定拠出年金法 第五条第四項（規約の変更） — https://japanlaw.org/en/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-5/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-5/par-4 - 確定拠出年金法 第六条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-6/par-1 - 確定拠出年金法 第六条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-6/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-6/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