# 確定拠出年金法 / Defined Contribution Pension Act — 第四条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 4) - 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: 第四条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 4) — address `suppl-4281-66/art-4` - Text in force since: 2026-04-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/defined-contribution-pension-act/suppl-4281-66/art-4 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/suppl-4281-66/art-4 - 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. --- ### 第四条 suppl-4281-66/art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/defined-contribution-pension-act/suppl-4281-66/art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/suppl-4281-66/art-4 **第一項** 附則第一条第三号に掲げる規定の施行の日の属する月の前月以前の月分の第二条の規定（同号に掲げる改正規定に限る。）による改正前の確定拠出年金法第三条第三項第七号に規定する事業主掛金、同項第七号の二に規定する企業型年金加入者掛金及び同法第五十五条第二項第四号に規定する個人型年金加入者掛金の納付及び給与からの控除については、なお従前の例による。 suppl-4281-66/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/defined-contribution-pension-act/suppl-4281-66/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/suppl-4281-66/art-4/par-1 Prior laws continue to govern the payment and the deduction from salaries of the employer's contribution prescribed in Article 3, paragraph (3), item (vii) of the Defined Contribution Pension Act before the amendment by the provisions of Article 2 (limited to the amending provisions set forth in Article 1, item (iii) of the Supplementary Provisions), the participant of a corporate-type pension plan's contribution prescribed in item (vii)-2 of Article 3, paragraph (3) of that Act, and the participant of an individual-type pension plan's contribution prescribed in Article 55, paragraph (2), item (iv) of that Act for the month preceding the month containing the day on which the provisions set forth in Article 1, item (iii) of the Supplementary Provisions come into effect and earlier months. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - suppl-4281-66/art-4/par-1: 附則第一条第三号 → 確定拠出年金法 附則第一条第一項第三号 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 1, paragraph (1), item (iii)), suppl-4281-66/art-1/par-1/item-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/defined-contribution-pension-act/suppl-4281-66/art-1/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/suppl-4281-66/art-1/par-1/item-3 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 確定拠出年金法 附則第一条第一項第三号（施行期日） — https://japanlaw.org/en/defined-contribution-pension-act/suppl-4281-66/art-1/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/suppl-4281-66/art-1/par-1/item-3 - 確定拠出年金法 附則第十条第一項（その他の経過措置の政令への委任） — https://japanlaw.org/en/defined-contribution-pension-act/suppl-4281-66/art-10/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/suppl-4281-66/art-10/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