# 確定拠出年金法 / Defined Contribution Pension Act — 第百二十一条 (Article 121) - 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: 第百二十一条 (Article 121) — address `art-121` - Text in force since: 2026-04-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-121 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-121 - 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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第百二十一条 art-121 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-121 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-121 **第一項** 次の各号のいずれかに該当する者は、五十万円以下の罰金に処する。 art-121/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-121/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-121/par-1 A person that falls under any of the following items is punished by a fine of not more than five hundred thousand yen: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **一** 第九十二条第一項の規定による届出をせず、又は虚偽の届出をした者 art-121/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-121/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-121/par-1/item-1 a person that fails to make notification under the provisions of Article 92, paragraph (1) or makes false notification; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **二** 第九十四条第一項の規定に違反した者 art-121/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-121/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-121/par-1/item-2 a person that violates the provisions of Article 94, paragraph (1); Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **三** 第九十四条第二項の規定に違反して、同条第一項の標識又はこれに類似する標識を掲示し、又は公衆の閲覧に供した者 art-121/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-121/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-121/par-1/item-3 a person that, in violation of the provisions of Article 94, paragraph (2), posts, or makes available for public viewing, the sign referred to in paragraph (1) of that Article or a sign similar thereto; machine translation, not official **四** 第九十六条の規定に違反して、書類を備え置かず、若しくは加入者等の求めに応じて閲覧させず、又は虚偽の記載のある書類を備え置き、若しくは加入者等に閲覧させた者 art-121/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-121/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-121/par-1/item-4 a person that fails to keep documents or does not allow a participant or instructor to inspect documents at their request, or that keeps or has a participant or instructor inspect documents containing a false statement, in violation of the provisions of Article 96; or Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **五** 第百四条第一項の規定による命令に違反した者 art-121/par-1/item-5 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-121/par-1/item-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-121/par-1/item-5 a person that violates an order under the provisions of Article 104, paragraph (1). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-121/par-1/item-1: 第九十二条第一項 → 確定拠出年金法 第九十二条第一項 (Article 92, paragraph (1)), art-92/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-92/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-92/par-1 - art-121/par-1/item-2: 第九十四条第一項 → 確定拠出年金法 第九十四条第一項 (Article 94, paragraph (1)), art-94/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-94/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-94/par-1 - art-121/par-1/item-3: 第九十四条第二項 → 確定拠出年金法 第九十四条第二項 (Article 94, paragraph (2)), art-94/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-94/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-94/par-2 - art-121/par-1/item-3: 同条第一項 → 確定拠出年金法 第九十四条第一項 (Article 94, paragraph (1)), art-94/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-94/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-94/par-1 - art-121/par-1/item-4: 第九十六条 → 確定拠出年金法 第九十六条 (Article 96), art-96 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-96 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-96 - art-121/par-1/item-5: 第百四条第一項 → 確定拠出年金法 第百四条第一項 (Article 104, paragraph (1)), art-104/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-104/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-104/par-1 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 確定拠出年金法 第百二十二条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-122/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-122/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 - claude-sonnet-5-5, corrected on review by claude-opus-5-5 — Machine translation corrected on review, batch defined-contribution-pension-act-20261019T020713-001, translated 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