# 確定拠出年金法 / Defined Contribution Pension Act — 第二十二条 (Article 22) - 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: 第二十二条 (Article 22)（事業主の責務） — address `art-22` - Text in force since: 2026-04-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-22 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-22 - 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. --- ### 第二十二条（事業主の責務） — (Responsibilities of the Employer) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-22 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-22 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-22 **第一項** 事業主は、その実施する企業型年金の企業型年金加入者等に対し、これらの者が行う第二十五条第一項の運用の指図に資するため、資産の運用に関する基礎的な資料の提供その他の必要な措置を継続的に講ずるよう努めなければならない。 art-22/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-22/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-22/par-1 An employer must endeavor to continuously take necessary measures, such as providing basic materials on investment of assets, for the participants or instructors of a corporate-type pension plan of the corporate-type pension plan the employer implements, in order to contribute to their instructions on investment referred to in Article 25, paragraph (1). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 事業主は、前項の措置を講ずるに当たっては、企業型年金加入者等の資産の運用に関する知識を向上させ、かつ、これを第二十五条第一項の運用の指図に有効に活用することができるよう配慮するものとする。 art-22/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-22/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-22/par-2 When an employer takes the measures referred to in the preceding paragraph, the employer is to give consideration so that the measures improve the knowledge of the participants or instructors of a corporate-type pension plan concerning investment of assets, and enable them to effectively utilize the knowledge in their instructions on investment referred to in Article 25, paragraph (1). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-22/par-1: 第二十五条第一項 → 確定拠出年金法 第二十五条第一項 (Article 25, paragraph (1)), art-25/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-25/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-25/par-1 - art-22/par-2: 前項 → 確定拠出年金法 第二十二条第一項 (Article 22, paragraph (1)), art-22/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-22/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-22/par-1 - art-22/par-2: 第二十五条第一項 → 確定拠出年金法 第二十五条第一項 (Article 25, paragraph (1)), art-25/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-25/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-25/par-1 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 確定拠出年金法 第二十二条第二項（事業主の責務） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-22/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-22/par-2 - 確定拠出年金法 第七十三条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-73/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-73/par-1 - 確定拠出年金法 第九十七条第一項（加入者等の運用の指図に資する措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-97/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-97/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