# 確定拠出年金法 / Defined Contribution Pension Act — 第二十五条の二 (Article 25-2) - 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: 第二十五条の二 (Article 25-2)（指定運用方法が提示されている場合の運用の指図の特例） — address `art-25-2` - Text in force since: 2026-04-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-25-2 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-25-2 - 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. --- ### 第二十五条の二（指定運用方法が提示されている場合の運用の指図の特例） — (Special Provisions on Instructions on Investment When a Default Investment Method Has Been Presented) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-25-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-25-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-25-2 **第一項** 次の各号に掲げる場合の区分に応じ、それぞれ当該各号に定める日から起算して三月以上で企業型年金規約で定める期間（次項において「特定期間」という。）を経過してもなお企業型記録関連運営管理機関等が企業型年金加入者から運用の指図を受けないときは、当該企業型記録関連運営管理機関等は、同項の事項及び当該指定運用方法を当該企業型年金加入者に通知しなければならない。 art-25-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-25-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-25-2/par-1 If a corporate-type pension plan records-related operational management institution, etc. has not received instructions on investment from a participant of a corporate-type pension plan even after the passage of a period specified by the corporate-type pension plan rules (referred to as the "specified period" in the following paragraph) that is three months or more from the days specified in the following items for the respective categories of cases set forth in those items, the corporate-type pension plan records-related operational management institution, etc. must give notice of the particulars referred to in the following paragraph and the default investment method to the participant of a corporate-type pension plan: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **一** 第二十三条の二第一項の規定により指定運用方法が提示されている場合であって、企業型年金加入者がその資格を取得したとき　その後最初に事業主掛金又は企業型年金加入者掛金（次号及び第三項において「事業主掛金等」という。）の納付が行われた日 art-25-2/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-25-2/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-25-2/par-1/item-1 when a default investment method has been presented pursuant to the provisions of Article 23-2, paragraph (1), if a participant of a corporate-type pension plan acquires the status as such:the day on which the employer's contribution or the participant of a corporate-type pension plan's contribution (referred to as the "employer's contribution, etc." in the following item and paragraph (3)) was paid for the first time after that; and Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **二** 企業型年金加入者がその資格を取得している場合であって、第二十三条の二第一項の規定により指定運用方法が提示されたとき　その後最初に事業主掛金等の納付が行われた日 art-25-2/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-25-2/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-25-2/par-1/item-2 when a participant of a corporate-type pension plan has acquired the status as such, if a default investment method is presented pursuant to the provisions of Article 23-2, paragraph (1):the day on which the employer's contribution, etc. was paid for the first time after that. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の規定による通知を受けた企業型年金加入者が特定期間を経過した日から二週間以上で企業型年金規約で定める期間（次項において「猶予期間」という。）を経過してもなお運用の指図を行わないときは、当該企業型年金加入者は、当該通知に係る指定運用方法を選択し、かつ、当該指定運用方法にその未指図個人別管理資産の全額を充てる運用の指図を行ったものとみなす。 art-25-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-25-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-25-2/par-2 If a participant of a corporate-type pension plan who has received a notice under the provisions of the preceding paragraph does not give instructions on investment even after the passage of a period specified by the corporate-type pension plan rules (referred to as the "grace period" in the following paragraph) that is two weeks or more from the day of passage of the specified period, the participant of a corporate-type pension plan is deemed to have selected the default investment method pertaining to that notice, and to have given an instruction on investment to allot the entire amount of that person's uninstructed assets managed per individual to the default investment method. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 前項の「未指図個人別管理資産」とは、個人別管理資産のうち、第一項の規定による通知に係る猶予期間が終了する日までに運用の指図が行われていないもの及び同日後に納付される事業主掛金等について運用の指図が行われていないものをいう。 art-25-2/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-25-2/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-25-2/par-3 The "uninstructed assets managed per individual" referred to in the preceding paragraph means assets managed per individual for which no instructions on investment have been given by the day on which the grace period pertaining to the notice under the provisions of paragraph (1) ends and those for which no instructions on investment have been given with regard to the employer's contribution, etc. paid after that day. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-25-2/par-1: 次項 → 確定拠出年金法 第二十五条の二第二項 (Article 25-2, paragraph (2)), art-25-2/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-25-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-25-2/par-2 - art-25-2/par-1/item-1: 第二十三条の二第一項 → 確定拠出年金法 第二十三条の二第一項 (Article 23-2, paragraph (1)), art-23-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-23-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-23-2/par-1 - art-25-2/par-1/item-1: 次号 → 確定拠出年金法 第二十五条の二第一項第二号 (Article 25-2, paragraph (1), item (ii)), art-25-2/par-1/item-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-25-2/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-25-2/par-1/item-2 - art-25-2/par-1/item-1: 第三項 → 確定拠出年金法 第二十五条の二第三項 (Article 25-2, paragraph (3)), art-25-2/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-25-2/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-25-2/par-3 - art-25-2/par-1/item-2: 第二十三条の二第一項 → 確定拠出年金法 第二十三条の二第一項 (Article 23-2, paragraph (1)), art-23-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-23-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-23-2/par-1 - art-25-2/par-2: 前項 → 確定拠出年金法 第二十五条の二第一項 (Article 25-2, paragraph (1)), art-25-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-25-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-25-2/par-1 - art-25-2/par-2: 次項 → 確定拠出年金法 第二十五条の二第三項 (Article 25-2, paragraph (3)), art-25-2/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-25-2/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-25-2/par-3 - art-25-2/par-3: 前項 → 確定拠出年金法 第二十五条の二第二項 (Article 25-2, paragraph (2)), art-25-2/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-25-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-25-2/par-2 - art-25-2/par-3: 第一項 → 確定拠出年金法 第二十五条の二第一項 (Article 25-2, paragraph (1)), art-25-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-25-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-25-2/par-1 ## Cited by 9 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 確定拠出年金法 第二十四条の二第一項第三号（指定運用方法に係る情報の提供） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-24-2/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-24-2/par-1/item-3 - 確定拠出年金法 第二十五条の二第一項（指定運用方法が提示されている場合の運用の指図の特例） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-25-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-25-2/par-1 - 確定拠出年金法 第二十五条の二第一項第一号（指定運用方法が提示されている場合の運用の指図の特例） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-25-2/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-25-2/par-1/item-1 - 確定拠出年金法 第二十五条の二第二項（指定運用方法が提示されている場合の運用の指図の特例） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-25-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-25-2/par-2 - 確定拠出年金法 第二十五条の二第三項（指定運用方法が提示されている場合の運用の指図の特例） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-25-2/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-25-2/par-3 - 確定拠出年金法 第五十四条の三第一項（他の制度の資産等の移換があった場合の運用の指図の特例） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-54-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-54-3/par-1 - 確定拠出年金法 第七十四条の三第一項（脱退一時金相当額等又は残余財産の移換があった場合の運用の指図の特例） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-74-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-74-3/par-1 - 確定拠出年金法 第八十一条第一項（企業型年金加入者となった者の個人別管理資産の移換があった場合の運用の指図の特例） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-81/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-81/par-1 - 確定拠出年金法 第八十二条の二第一項（個人型年金加入者となった者等の個人別管理資産の移換があった場合の運用の指図の特例） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-82-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-82-2/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