# 厚生年金保険法 / Employees' Pension Insurance Act — 第五十五条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 55) - 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 - 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: 第五十五条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 55)（存続連合会から確定給付企業年金への年金給付等積立金等の移換） — address `suppl-4251-63/art-55` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-4251-63/art-55 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-4251-63/art-55 - 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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第五十五条（存続連合会から確定給付企業年金への年金給付等積立金等の移換） — Transfer of Reserves for Pension Benefits or Other Reserves from the Surviving Pension Fund Association to a Defined-Benefit Corporate Pension caption: machine translation, not official suppl-4251-63/art-55 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-4251-63/art-55 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-4251-63/art-55 **第一項** 施行前基金中途脱退者等又は施行後基金中途脱退者等（以下この条及び次条において「老齢基金中途脱退者等」という。）は、確定給付企業年金の加入者の資格を取得した場合であって、存続連合会及び当該確定給付企業年金の規約において、あらかじめ、存続連合会から当該確定給付企業年金の資産管理運用機関等に存続連合会の規約で定める年金給付等積立金等（施行前基金中途脱退者等にあっては年金給付等積立金、施行後基金中途脱退者等にあっては積立金をいう。以下この条及び次条において同じ。）の移換ができる旨が定められているときは、存続連合会に当該年金給付等積立金等の移換を申し出ることができる。ただし、老齢基金中途脱退者等が存続連合会が支給する老齢年金給付又は附則第四十二条第三項若しくは第四十三条第三項の存続連合会老齢給付金の受給権を有するときは、この限りでない。 suppl-4251-63/art-55/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-4251-63/art-55/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-4251-63/art-55/par-1 A pre-effective-date Fund early leaver, etc. or a post-effective-date Fund early leaver, etc. (hereinafter referred to in this Article and the following Article as an "old-age Fund early leaver, etc.") may, where the person has acquired the status as a participant in a defined-benefit corporate pension and the articles of Association of the surviving Pension Fund Association and that defined-benefit corporate pension provide in advance that the reserves for pension benefits or other reserves specified by the articles of Association of the surviving Pension Fund Association (meaning, for a pre-effective-date Fund early leaver, etc., the reserves for pension benefits, and for a post-effective-date Fund early leaver, etc., the reserves; the same applies hereinafter in this Article and the following Article) may be transferred from the surviving Pension Fund Association to the asset management and investment institution, etc. of that defined-benefit corporate pension, apply to the surviving Pension Fund Association for the transfer of those reserves for pension benefits or other reserves; provided, however, that this does not apply where the old-age Fund early leaver, etc. holds the right to receive the old-age pension benefit paid by the surviving Pension Fund Association or the surviving Pension Fund Association old-age benefit under Article 42, paragraph (3) or Article 43, paragraph (3) of the Supplementary Provisions. machine translation, not official **第二項** 存続連合会は、前項の規定による申出があったときは、当該確定給付企業年金の資産管理運用機関等に当該申出に係る年金給付等積立金等を移換するものとする。 suppl-4251-63/art-55/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-4251-63/art-55/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-4251-63/art-55/par-2 When an application has been made under the preceding paragraph, the surviving Pension Fund Association is to transfer to the asset management and investment institution, etc. of that defined-benefit corporate pension the reserves for pension benefits or other reserves to which the application pertains. machine translation, not official **第三項** 当該確定給付企業年金の事業主等は、前項の規定により当該確定給付企業年金の資産管理運用機関等が年金給付等積立金等の移換を受けたときは、当該移換金を原資として、規約で定めるところにより、当該老齢基金中途脱退者等に対し、老齢給付金等の支給を行うものとする。 suppl-4251-63/art-55/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-4251-63/art-55/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-4251-63/art-55/par-3 When the asset management and investment institution, etc. of that defined-benefit corporate pension has received the transfer of reserves for pension benefits or other reserves pursuant to the preceding paragraph, the employer, etc. of that defined-benefit corporate pension is to pay old-age benefits, etc. to that old-age Fund early leaver, etc., using the transferred Funds as the source and as provided by its articles of Association. machine translation, not official **第四項** 存続連合会は、第二項の規定により年金給付等積立金等を移換したときは、当該老齢基金中途脱退者等に係る老齢年金給付、死亡一時金その他の一時金たる給付又は附則第四十二条第三項若しくは第四十三条第三項の存続連合会老齢給付金若しくは存続連合会遺族給付金の支給に関する義務を免れる。 suppl-4251-63/art-55/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-4251-63/art-55/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-4251-63/art-55/par-4 When the surviving Pension Fund Association has transferred reserves for pension benefits or other reserves pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (2), it is relieved of its obligation concerning the payment of the old-age pension benefit, the death lump-sum and other lump-sum benefits, or the surviving Pension Fund Association old-age benefit or the surviving Pension Fund Association survivor benefit under Article 42, paragraph (3) or Article 43, paragraph (3) of the Supplementary Provisions pertaining to that old-age Fund early leaver, etc. machine translation, not official **第五項** 当該確定給付企業年金の事業主等は、第三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、その旨を当該老齢基金中途脱退者等に通知しなければならない。 suppl-4251-63/art-55/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-4251-63/art-55/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-4251-63/art-55/par-5 When the employer, etc. of that defined-benefit corporate pension has come to pay old-age benefits, etc. pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (3), it must notify that old-age Fund early leaver, etc. to that effect. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-4251-63/art-55/par-1: この条 → 厚生年金保険法 附則第五十五条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 55), suppl-4251-63/art-55 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-4251-63/art-55 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-4251-63/art-55 - suppl-4251-63/art-55/par-1: 次条 → 厚生年金保険法 附則第五十六条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 56), suppl-4251-63/art-56 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-4251-63/art-56 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-4251-63/art-56 - suppl-4251-63/art-55/par-1: 附則第四十二条第三項 → 厚生年金保険法 附則第四十二条第三項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 42, paragraph (3)), suppl-4251-63/art-42/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-4251-63/art-42/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-4251-63/art-42/par-3 - suppl-4251-63/art-55/par-1: 第四十三条第三項 → 厚生年金保険法 附則第四十三条第三項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 43, paragraph (3)), suppl-4251-63/art-43/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-4251-63/art-43/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-4251-63/art-43/par-3 - suppl-4251-63/art-55/par-2: 前項 → 厚生年金保険法 附則第五十五条第一項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 55, paragraph (1)), suppl-4251-63/art-55/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-4251-63/art-55/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-4251-63/art-55/par-1 - suppl-4251-63/art-55/par-3: 前項 → 厚生年金保険法 附則第五十五条第二項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 55, paragraph (2)), suppl-4251-63/art-55/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-4251-63/art-55/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-4251-63/art-55/par-2 - suppl-4251-63/art-55/par-4: 第二項 → 厚生年金保険法 附則第五十五条第二項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 55, paragraph (2)), suppl-4251-63/art-55/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-4251-63/art-55/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-4251-63/art-55/par-2 - suppl-4251-63/art-55/par-4: 附則第四十二条第三項 → 厚生年金保険法 附則第四十二条第三項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 42, paragraph (3)), suppl-4251-63/art-42/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-4251-63/art-42/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-4251-63/art-42/par-3 - suppl-4251-63/art-55/par-4: 第四十三条第三項 → 厚生年金保険法 附則第四十三条第三項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 43, paragraph (3)), suppl-4251-63/art-43/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-4251-63/art-43/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-4251-63/art-43/par-3 - suppl-4251-63/art-55/par-5: 第三項 → 厚生年金保険法 附則第五十五条第三項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 55, paragraph (3)), suppl-4251-63/art-55/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-4251-63/art-55/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-4251-63/art-55/par-3 ## Cited by 15 provisions cite this one. 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