# 厚生年金保険法 / Employees' Pension Insurance Act — 第三十五条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 35)

- Law: 厚生年金保険法 (Employees' Pension Insurance Act), 昭和二十九年法律第百十五号
- English title "Employees' Pension Insurance Act": Ministry of Justice translation
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- Provision: 第三十五条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 35)（解散存続厚生年金基金の残余財産の確定給付企業年金への交付） — address `suppl-4251-63/art-35`
- Text in force since: 2026-10-01
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### 第三十五条（解散存続厚生年金基金の残余財産の確定給付企業年金への交付） — Delivery of Residual Assets of a Dissolved Surviving Employees' Pension Fund to a Defined-Benefit Corporate Pension
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<sup>suppl-4251-63/art-35 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-4251-63/art-35 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-4251-63/art-35</sup>

**第一項**  施行日以後に解散した存続厚生年金基金（当該解散した日における年金給付等積立金の額が責任準備金相当額を下回るものを除く。）は、規約で定めるところにより、その設立事業所（政令で定める場合にあっては、設立事業所の一部。以下この項及び次条において同じ。）が確定給付企業年金の実施事業所（改正後確定給付企業年金法第四条第一号に規定する実施事業所をいう。以下この項において同じ。）となっている場合又は実施事業所となる場合であって、当該確定給付企業年金の規約において、あらかじめ、当該存続厚生年金基金から前条第四項の規定により当該設立事業所に使用される解散基金加入員等（解散した厚生年金基金がその解散した日において年金たる給付の支給に関する義務を負っていた者をいう。以下同じ。）に分配すべき残余財産（以下この条において「残余財産」という。）の交付を受けることができる旨が定められているときは、当該確定給付企業年金の事業主等（改正後確定給付企業年金法第二十九条第一項に規定する事業主等をいう。以下同じ。）に残余財産の当該確定給付企業年金の資産管理運用機関等（改正後確定給付企業年金法第三十条第三項に規定する資産管理運用機関等をいう。以下同じ。）への交付を申し出ることができる。
<sup>suppl-4251-63/art-35/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-4251-63/art-35/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-4251-63/art-35/par-1</sup>
A surviving employees' pension Fund that is dissolved on or after the Effective Date (excluding one for which the amount of the reserves for pension benefits, etc. on the day of dissolution is less than the liability reserve equivalent) may, as provided by its articles of Association, where its establishing place of business (or, in the cases specified by Cabinet Order, a part of its establishing place of business; the same applies hereinafter in this paragraph and the following Article) is or is to become an implementing place of business of a defined-benefit corporate pension (meaning an implementing place of business prescribed in Article 4, item (i) of the amended Defined-Benefit Corporate Pension Act; the same applies hereinafter in this paragraph), and the articles of Association of that defined-benefit corporate pension provide in advance that it may receive from that surviving employees' pension Fund the residual assets (hereinafter referred to in this Article as "residual assets") to be distributed, pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (4) of the preceding Article, to members, etc. of a dissolved Fund employed at that establishing place of business (meaning persons to whom a dissolved employees' pension Fund owed obligations concerning the payment of benefits in the form of pensions on the day of its dissolution; the same applies hereinafter), apply to the employer, etc. of that defined-benefit corporate pension (meaning the employer, etc. prescribed in Article 29, paragraph (1) of the amended Defined-Benefit Corporate Pension Act; the same applies hereinafter) for the delivery of the residual assets to the asset management and investment institution, etc. of that defined-benefit corporate pension (meaning the asset management and investment institution, etc. prescribed in Article 30, paragraph (3) of the amended Defined-Benefit Corporate Pension Act; the same applies hereinafter).
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**第二項**  当該確定給付企業年金の事業主等は、当該確定給付企業年金の資産管理運用機関等が前項の規定による申出に従い残余財産の交付を受けたときは、当該交付金を原資として、規約で定めるところにより、当該解散基金加入員等に対し、改正後確定給付企業年金法第二十九条第一項各号及び第二項各号に掲げる給付（以下「老齢給付金等」という。）の支給を行うものとする。
<sup>suppl-4251-63/art-35/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-4251-63/art-35/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-4251-63/art-35/par-2</sup>
When the asset management and investment institution, etc. of that defined-benefit corporate pension has received the delivery of the residual assets in accordance with the application under the preceding paragraph, the employer, etc. of that defined-benefit corporate pension is to pay to those members, etc. of a dissolved Fund, using the delivered money as the source and as provided by its articles of Association, the benefits set forth in the items of Article 29, paragraph (1) and the items of Article 29, paragraph (2) of the amended Defined-Benefit Corporate Pension Act (hereinafter referred to as "old-age benefits, etc.").
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**第三項**  当該確定給付企業年金の資産管理運用機関等が第一項の規定による申出に従い残余財産の交付を受けたときは、前条第四項の規定の適用については、当該残余財産は、当該解散基金加入員等に分配されたものとみなす。
<sup>suppl-4251-63/art-35/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-4251-63/art-35/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-4251-63/art-35/par-3</sup>
When the asset management and investment institution, etc. of that defined-benefit corporate pension has received the delivery of the residual assets in accordance with the application under paragraph (1), those residual assets are deemed, for the purpose of the application of paragraph (4) of the preceding Article, to have been distributed to those members, etc. of a dissolved Fund.
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**第四項**  当該確定給付企業年金の事業主等は、第二項の規定により老齢給付金等の支給を行うこととなったときは、その旨を当該解散基金加入員等に通知しなければならない。
<sup>suppl-4251-63/art-35/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-4251-63/art-35/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-4251-63/art-35/par-4</sup>
When the employer, etc. of that defined-benefit corporate pension has come to pay old-age benefits, etc. pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (2), it must notify those members, etc. of a dissolved Fund to that effect.
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**第五項**  当該確定給付企業年金の事業主等は、解散基金加入員等の所在が明らかでないため前項の規定による通知をすることができないときは、当該通知に代えて、その通知すべき事項を公告しなければならない。
<sup>suppl-4251-63/art-35/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-4251-63/art-35/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-4251-63/art-35/par-5</sup>
Where the employer, etc. of that defined-benefit corporate pension is unable to give the notice under the preceding paragraph because the whereabouts of members, etc. of a dissolved Fund are unknown, it must, in lieu of that notice, give public notice of the matters to be notified.
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## Cites
- suppl-4251-63/art-35/par-1: この項 → 厚生年金保険法 附則第三十五条第一項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 35, paragraph (1)), suppl-4251-63/art-35/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-4251-63/art-35/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-4251-63/art-35/par-1
- suppl-4251-63/art-35/par-1: 次条 → 厚生年金保険法 附則第三十六条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 36), suppl-4251-63/art-36 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-4251-63/art-36 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-4251-63/art-36
- suppl-4251-63/art-35/par-1: 前条第四項 → 厚生年金保険法 附則第三十四条第四項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 34, paragraph (4)), suppl-4251-63/art-34/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-4251-63/art-34/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-4251-63/art-34/par-4
- suppl-4251-63/art-35/par-1: この条 → 厚生年金保険法 附則第三十五条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 35), suppl-4251-63/art-35 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-4251-63/art-35 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-4251-63/art-35
- suppl-4251-63/art-35/par-2: 前項 → 厚生年金保険法 附則第三十五条第一項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 35, paragraph (1)), suppl-4251-63/art-35/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-4251-63/art-35/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-4251-63/art-35/par-1
- suppl-4251-63/art-35/par-3: 第一項 → 厚生年金保険法 附則第三十五条第一項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 35, paragraph (1)), suppl-4251-63/art-35/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-4251-63/art-35/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-4251-63/art-35/par-1
- suppl-4251-63/art-35/par-3: 前条第四項 → 厚生年金保険法 附則第三十四条第四項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 34, paragraph (4)), suppl-4251-63/art-34/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-4251-63/art-34/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-4251-63/art-34/par-4
- suppl-4251-63/art-35/par-4: 第二項 → 厚生年金保険法 附則第三十五条第二項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 35, paragraph (2)), suppl-4251-63/art-35/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-4251-63/art-35/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-4251-63/art-35/par-2
- suppl-4251-63/art-35/par-5: 前項 → 厚生年金保険法 附則第三十五条第四項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 35, paragraph (4)), suppl-4251-63/art-35/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-4251-63/art-35/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-4251-63/art-35/par-4

## Cited by

5 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction.

- 厚生年金保険法 附則第三十五条第一項（解散存続厚生年金基金の残余財産の確定給付企業年金への交付） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-4251-63/art-35/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-4251-63/art-35/par-1
- 厚生年金保険法 附則第三十五条第二項（解散存続厚生年金基金の残余財産の確定給付企業年金への交付） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-4251-63/art-35/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-4251-63/art-35/par-2
- 厚生年金保険法 附則第三十五条第三項（解散存続厚生年金基金の残余財産の確定給付企業年金への交付） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-4251-63/art-35/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-4251-63/art-35/par-3
- 厚生年金保険法 附則第三十五条第四項（解散存続厚生年金基金の残余財産の確定給付企業年金への交付） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-4251-63/art-35/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-4251-63/art-35/par-4
- 厚生年金保険法 附則第三十五条第五項（解散存続厚生年金基金の残余財産の確定給付企業年金への交付） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-4251-63/art-35/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-4251-63/art-35/par-5

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## Sources

- e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 厚生年金保険法 — the text in force from 2026-10-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/329AC0000000115/20261001_507AC0000000074), retrieved 2026-10-13
- Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Employees' Pension Insurance Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3554/tb), retrieved 2026-10-13
- claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch employees-pension-insurance-act-20261013T074650-082, translated 2026-10-13
- claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch employees-pension-insurance-act-20261013T074650-083, translated 2026-10-13
- This site's parser, version 190 — 厚生年金保険法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-13
