# 確定拠出年金法 / Defined Contribution Pension Act — 第五十四条 (Article 54) - 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: 第五十四条 (Article 54)（他の制度の資産の移換） — address `art-54` - Text in force since: 2026-04-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-54 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-54 - 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. --- ### 第五十四条（他の制度の資産の移換） — (Transfer of Assets from Other Systems) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-54 · https://japanlaw.org/en/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-54 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-54 **第一項** 企業型年金の資産管理機関は、政令で定めるところにより、当該企業型年金の実施事業所において実施される確定給付企業年金、中小企業退職金共済法（昭和三十四年法律第百六十号）の規定による退職金共済又は退職手当制度に係る資産の全部又は一部の移換を受けることができる。 art-54/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-54/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-54/par-1 Pursuant to the provisions of Cabinet Order an asset management institution of a corporate-type pension plan may receive transfer of all or part of assets relating to a defined benefit corporate pension plan, the retirement allowance mutual aid under the provisions of the Small and Medium Sized Enterprise Retirement Allowance Cooperative Act (Act No. 160 of 1959), or the retirement allowance system, implemented at the place of business implementing the plan with regard to the relevant corporate-type pension plan. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の規定により資産管理機関が資産の移換を受けたときは、各企業型年金加入者が当該実施事業所の事業主に使用された期間（当該企業型年金加入者が六十歳に達した日の前日が属する月以前の期間に限る。）その他これに準ずる期間のうち政令で定めるものは、当該企業型年金加入者に係る第三十三条第一項の通算加入者等期間に算入するものとする。 art-54/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-54/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-54/par-2 When an asset management institution receives transfer of assets pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the period during which each participant of a corporate-type pension plan was employed by the employer of the place of business implementing the plan (limited to the period in or before the month containing the day preceding the day on which the participant of a corporate-type pension plan reached the age of 60) or other period equivalent thereto specified by Cabinet Order is to be included in the total enrollment period referred to in Article 33, paragraph (1) relating to that participant of a corporate-type pension plan. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-54/par-2: 前項 → 確定拠出年金法 第五十四条第一項 (Article 54, paragraph (1)), art-54/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-54/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-54/par-1 - art-54/par-2: 第三十三条第一項 → 確定拠出年金法 第三十三条第一項 (Article 33, paragraph (1)), art-33/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-33/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-33/par-1 ## Cited by 5 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 厚生年金保険法 附則第五条第三項（存続厚生年金基金に係る改正前厚生年金保険法等の効力等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-4251-63/art-5/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-4251-63/art-5/par-3 - 確定拠出年金法 第五十四条第二項（他の制度の資産の移換） — https://japanlaw.org/en/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-54/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-54/par-2 - 確定拠出年金法 第五十四条の三第一項（他の制度の資産等の移換があった場合の運用の指図の特例） — https://japanlaw.org/en/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-54-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-54-3/par-1 - 確定拠出年金法 第五十四条の七第一項（政令への委任） — https://japanlaw.org/en/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-54-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-54-7/par-1 - 確定拠出年金法 附則第三条第一項第六号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/defined-contribution-pension-act/suppl-4131-88/art-3/par-1/item-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/suppl-4131-88/art-3/par-1/item-6 --- ## 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