# 確定拠出年金法 / Defined Contribution Pension Act — 第五十二条 (Article 52) - 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: 第五十二条 (Article 52)（事業主に対する監督） — address `art-52` - Text in force since: 2026-04-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-52 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-52 - 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. --- ### 第五十二条（事業主に対する監督） — (Supervision over the Employer) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-52 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-52 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-52 **第一項** 厚生労働大臣は、前条の規定により報告を徴し、又は質問し、若しくは検査した場合において、事業主がその実施する企業型年金に関し法令、企業型年金規約若しくは厚生労働大臣の処分に違反していると認めるとき、又は事業主の企業型年金の運営が著しく適正を欠くと認めるときは、期間を定めて、事業主に対し、その違反の是正又は改善のため必要な措置を採るべき旨を命ずることができる。 art-52/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-52/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-52/par-1 If the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare collects reports, asks questions, or conducts inspections pursuant to the provisions of the preceding Article, and finds that the employer violates laws or regulations, the corporate-type pension plan rules, or a disposition made by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare with regard to a corporate-type pension plan the employer implements, or finds that the employer's operation of a corporate-type pension plan is extremely inappropriate, the minister may order the employer to take necessary measures for rectifying the violation or making improvement within a specified period. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 事業主が前項の命令に違反したとき、又は企業型年金の実施状況によりその継続が困難であると認めるときは、厚生労働大臣は、当該事業主の企業型年金規約の承認を取り消すことができる。 art-52/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-52/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-52/par-2 If an employer violates the order referred to in the preceding paragraph or if it is found difficult to continue the implementation of a corporate-type pension plan in light of the status of its implementation, the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare may rescind the approval for the corporate-type pension plan rules of that employer. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-52/par-1: 前条 → 確定拠出年金法 第五十一条 (Article 51), art-51 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-51 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-51 - art-52/par-2: 前項 → 確定拠出年金法 第五十二条第一項 (Article 52, paragraph (1)), art-52/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-52/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-52/par-1 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 確定拠出年金法 第四十五条第一項第三号（企業型年金の終了） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-45/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-45/par-1/item-3 - 確定拠出年金法 第五十二条第二項（事業主に対する監督） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-52/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-52/par-2 - 確定拠出年金法 第百二十三条第一項第六号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/defined-contribution-pension-act/art-123/par-1/item-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0000000088/art-123/par-1/item-6 --- ## 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