# 確定拠出年金法 / Defined Contribution Pension Act — 第六十三条 (Article 63) - 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: 第六十三条 (Article 63)（個人型年金加入者期間） — address `art-63` - Text in force since: 2026-04-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-63 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-63 - 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. --- ### 第六十三条（個人型年金加入者期間） — (Period of a Participant of an Individual-type Pension Plan) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-63 · https://japanlaw.org/en/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-63 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-63 **第一項** 個人型年金加入者期間を計算する場合には、月によるものとし、個人型年金加入者の資格を取得した月からその資格を喪失した月の前月までをこれに算入する。 art-63/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-63/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-63/par-1 When calculating the period of a participant of an individual-type pension plan, the period is to be calculated on a monthly basis, and the period from the month in which the person acquired the status as a participant of an individual-type pension plan to the month preceding the month in which the person lost the status is to be included in that period. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 個人型年金加入者の資格を喪失した後、さらにその資格を取得した者については、前後の個人型年金加入者期間を合算する。 art-63/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-63/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-63/par-2 With regard to a person who has lost the status as an participant of an individual-type pension plan, but has subsequently acquired that status again, the former and latter participant of an individual-type pension plan periods are to be totaled. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 確定拠出年金法 第六十四条第五項（個人型年金運用指図者） — https://japanlaw.org/en/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-64/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-64/par-5 --- ## 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