# 確定拠出年金法 / Defined Contribution Pension Act — 第十五条 (Article 15) - 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: 第十五条 (Article 15)（企業型年金運用指図者） — address `art-15` - Text in force since: 2026-04-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-15 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-15 - 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. --- ### 第十五条（企業型年金運用指図者） — (Instructor of a corporate-type pension plan) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-15 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-15 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-15 **第一項** 次に掲げる者は、企業型年金運用指図者とする。 art-15/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-15/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-15/par-1 Any of the following persons is to be an instructor of a corporate-type pension plan: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **一** 六十歳以上の企業型年金加入者であって、第十一条各号（第一号及び第三号を除く。）に該当するに至ったことにより企業型年金加入者の資格を喪失したもの（当該企業型年金に個人別管理資産がある者に限る。） art-15/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-15/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-15/par-1/item-1 a participant of a corporate-type pension plan aged 60 or over, who has lost the status as a participant of a corporate-type pension plan due to coming to fall under any of the items of Article 11 (excluding items (i) and (iii)) (limited to a person who has assets managed per individual under the corporate-type pension plan); or Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **二** 企業型年金の企業型年金加入者であった者であって当該企業型年金の年金たる障害給付金の受給権を有するもの art-15/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-15/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-15/par-1/item-2 a person who was a participant of a corporate-type pension plan of a corporate-type pension plan and who has the right to receive disability benefits as a pension under that corporate-type pension plan. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 企業型年金運用指図者は、前項各号に掲げる者のいずれかに該当するに至った日に、企業型年金運用指図者の資格を取得する。 art-15/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-15/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-15/par-2 An instructor of a corporate-type pension plan acquires the status as an instructor of a corporate-type pension plan on the day on which the person comes to fall within the category of the person set forth in any of the items of the preceding paragraph. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 企業型年金運用指図者は、次の各号のいずれかに該当するに至った日の翌日（第三号に該当するに至ったときは、当該至った日）に、企業型年金運用指図者の資格を喪失する。 art-15/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-15/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-15/par-3 An instructor of a corporate-type pension plan loses the status as an instructor of a corporate-type pension plan on the day following the day on which the person comes to fall under any of the following items (if the person comes to fall under item (iii), on the day of falling under that item): Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **一** 死亡したとき。 art-15/par-3/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-15/par-3/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-15/par-3/item-1 when the person dies; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **二** 当該企業型年金に個人別管理資産がなくなったとき。 art-15/par-3/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-15/par-3/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-15/par-3/item-2 when the person no longer has assets managed per individual under the corporate-type pension plan; or Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **三** 当該企業型年金の企業型年金加入者となったとき。 art-15/par-3/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-15/par-3/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-15/par-3/item-3 when the person becomes a participant of a corporate-type pension plan under the corporate-type pension plan. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第四項** 第十二条の規定は企業型年金運用指図者の資格について、前条の規定は企業型年金運用指図者である期間（以下「企業型年金運用指図者期間」という。）を計算する場合について準用する。 art-15/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-15/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-15/par-4 The provisions of Article 12 apply mutatis mutandis to the status as an instructor of a corporate-type pension plan, and the provisions of the preceding Article apply mutatis mutandis to the case of calculating the period during which a person is an instructor of a corporate-type pension plan (hereinafter referred to as "instructor of a corporate-type pension plan period"). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-15/par-1/item-1: 第十一条 → 確定拠出年金法 第十一条 (Article 11), art-11 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-11 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-11 - art-15/par-1/item-1: 第一号 → 確定拠出年金法 第十一条第一項第一号 (Article 11, paragraph (1), item (i)), art-11/par-1/item-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-11/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-11/par-1/item-1 - art-15/par-1/item-1: 第三号 → 確定拠出年金法 第十一条第一項第三号 (Article 11, paragraph (1), item (iii)), art-11/par-1/item-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-11/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-11/par-1/item-3 - art-15/par-2: 前項 → 確定拠出年金法 第十五条第一項 (Article 15, paragraph (1)), art-15/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-15/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-15/par-1 - art-15/par-3: 第三号 → 確定拠出年金法 第十五条第三項第三号 (Article 15, paragraph (3), item (iii)), art-15/par-3/item-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-15/par-3/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-15/par-3/item-3 - art-15/par-4: 第十二条 → 確定拠出年金法 第十二条 (Article 12), art-12 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-12 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-12 - art-15/par-4: 前条 → 確定拠出年金法 第十四条 (Article 14), art-14 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-14 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-14 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 確定拠出年金法 第十五条第二項（企業型年金運用指図者） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-15/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-15/par-2 - 確定拠出年金法 第十五条第三項（企業型年金運用指図者） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-15/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-15/par-3 - 確定拠出年金法 第五十四条の五第一項（企業型年金加入者であった者の個人別管理資産の移換） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-54-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-54-5/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