# 確定拠出年金法 / Defined Contribution Pension Act — 第二十一条 (Article 21) - 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: 第二十一条 (Article 21)（事業主掛金の納付） — address `art-21` - Text in force since: 2026-04-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-21 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-21 - 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. --- ### 第二十一条（事業主掛金の納付） — (Payment of the Employer's Contributions) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-21 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-21 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-21 **第一項** 事業主は、事業主掛金を企業型年金規約で定める日までに資産管理機関に納付するものとする。 art-21/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-21/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-21/par-1 An employer is to pay the employer's contribution to the asset management institution by the day specified by the corporate-type pension plan rules. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 事業主は、事業主掛金を納付する場合においては、厚生労働省令で定めるところにより、各企業型年金加入者に係る事業主掛金の額を企業型記録関連運営管理機関に通知しなければならない。ただし、当該事業主が記録関連業務の全部を行う場合にあっては、この限りでない。 art-21/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-21/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-21/par-2 When an employer pays the employer's contributions, , pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare the employer must give notice of the amount of the employer's contribution for each participant of a corporate-type pension plan to the corporate-type pension plan records-related operational management institution; provided, however, that this does not apply to a case where the employer provides all of the records-related services. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 確定拠出年金法 第二十一条の二第二項（企業型年金加入者掛金の納付） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-21-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-21-2/par-2 --- ## 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