Article 23Measures to Reduce the Burden of Premiums to Promote Enrollment, etc.
第二十三条（加入促進等のための掛金負担軽減措置）
In order to promote the filing of applications for retirement allowance mutual aid contracts by small and medium-sized enterprises and the filing of applications for an increase in the monthly premium under Article 9, paragraph (1) by mutual aid policyholders, the Organization may, as a measure to reduce the burden of premiums on mutual aid policyholders, reduce the amount of the premium for certain months, as provided for by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.
For a month for which a measure to reduce premiums is taken under the provisions of the preceding paragraph, if a mutual aid policyholder pays the premium in the amount reduced under the provisions of that paragraph, with regard to the application of the provisions of Article 10, paragraph (2) (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 16, paragraph (3)) and Article 55, paragraph (1), the premium is deemed to have been paid based on the monthly premium under paragraph (1) of the preceding Article.
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small and medium-sized enterprisemachine translation
「中小企業者」
An employer (事業主) — other than the State, a local government or a similar body an Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (厚生労働省令) names — that regularly employs no more than 300 employees, or is a corporation with stated capital or total contributions of no more than 300 million yen; where its main business is wholesale, the limits are 100 employees or 100 million yen, in services 100 employees or 50 million yen, and in retail 50 employees or 50 million yen.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1)· applies throughout the law
the Organizationmachine translation
「機構」
The Organization for Workers' Retirement Allowance Mutual Aid (独立行政法人勤労者退職金共済機構), an incorporated administrative agency, throughout this Act except Articles 56 and 57.
Short name set inArticle 2, paragraph (3)· applies from here on, except in Articles 56 and 57
retirement allowance mutual aid contractmachine translation
「退職金共済契約」
A contract under which an employer (事業主) promises to pay premiums (掛金) to the Organization for Workers' Retirement Allowance Mutual Aid (独立行政法人勤労者退職金共済機構) and the Organization promises to pay a retirement allowance (退職金), as this Act provides, when the employer's employees leave; a specified-industry retirement allowance mutual aid contract (特定業種退職金共済契約) is not one.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (3)· applies throughout the law
mutual aid policyholdermachine translation
「共済契約者」
An employer (事業主) that is a party to a retirement allowance mutual aid contract (退職金共済契約) or a specified-industry retirement allowance mutual aid contract (特定業種退職金共済契約).
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (6)· applies throughout the law