Supplementary Provisions, Article 7Treatment of Previous Savings Schemes

①With regard to a small and medium-sized enterprise that, at the time of the enforcement of this Act, is actually participating in a retirement allowance accumulation project for employees that is carried out jointly by small and medium-sized enterprises under Article 2, paragraph (1) of the New Act, and that the Minister of Labour certifies as conforming to the standards specified by Order of the Ministry of Labour, Article 2 of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the Small and Medium Sized Enterprise Retirement Allowance Cooperative Act (Act No. 107 of 1964) applies mutatis mutandis. In this case, the phrase "after this Act comes into effect" in paragraph (1) of that Article is deemed to be replaced with "after the Act Partially Amending the Small and Medium Sized Enterprise Retirement Allowance Cooperative Act (Act No. 45 of 1980) comes into effect".

②With regard to an employee for whom the amount prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the Small and Medium Sized Enterprise Retirement Allowance Cooperative Act has been paid to the Small and Medium Enterprise Retirement Allowance Mutual Aid Corporation pursuant to the provisions of that paragraph as applied mutatis mutandis in the preceding paragraph, a small and medium-sized enterprise may not, notwithstanding Article 21-2, paragraph (1) of the New Act, make the request under paragraph (1) of that Article.