# 確定拠出年金法 / Defined Contribution Pension Act — 第五十七条 (Article 57) - 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: 第五十七条 (Article 57)（規約の変更） — address `art-57` - Text in force since: 2026-04-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-57 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-57 - 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. --- ### 第五十七条（規約の変更） — (Changes to the Rules) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-57 · https://japanlaw.org/en/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-57 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-57 **第一項** 連合会は、個人型年金規約の変更（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-57/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-57/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-57/par-1 When the Association intends to make a change to the individual-type pension plan rules (excluding the minor change specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare), it 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** 前条の規定は、前項の変更の承認の申請があった場合について準用する。 art-57/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-57/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-57/par-2 The provisions of the preceding Article apply mutatis mutandis to the case where an application for the approval or a change referred to in the preceding paragraph has been filed. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-57/par-2: 前条 → 確定拠出年金法 第五十六条 (Article 56), art-56 — https://japanlaw.org/en/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-56 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-56 - art-57/par-2: 前項 → 確定拠出年金法 第五十七条第一項 (Article 57, paragraph (1)), art-57/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-57/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-57/par-1 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 確定拠出年金法 第五十七条第二項（規約の変更） — https://japanlaw.org/en/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-57/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-57/par-2 - 確定拠出年金法 第五十八条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-58/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-58/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