# 確定拠出年金法 / Defined Contribution Pension Act — 第三十一条 (Article 31) - 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: 第三十一条 (Article 31)（年金給付の支給期間等） — address `art-31` - Text in force since: 2026-04-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-31 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-31 - 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. --- ### 第三十一条（年金給付の支給期間等） — (Term of Payment of Pension Benefits) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-31 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-31 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-31 **第一項** 給付のうち年金として支給されるもの（次項において「年金給付」という。）の支給は、これを支給すべき事由が生じた月の翌月から始め、権利が消滅した月で終わるものとする。 art-31/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-31/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-31/par-1 Payment of benefits which are paid as pensions (referred to as "pension benefits" in the following paragraph) is to commence in the month following the month in which the grounds for paying the benefits occurred and end in the month in which the right to receive benefits extinguishes. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 年金給付の支払期月については、企業型年金規約で定めるところによる。 art-31/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-31/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-31/par-2 The payment months of pension benefits are to be in accordance with the provisions of the corporate-type pension plan rules. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-31/par-1: 次項 → 確定拠出年金法 第三十一条第二項 (Article 31, paragraph (2)), art-31/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-31/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-31/par-2 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 確定拠出年金法 第三十一条第一項（年金給付の支給期間等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-31/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-31/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