Supplementary Provisions, Article 2Transitional Measures Concerning Monthly Premiums
第二条（掛金月額に関する経過措置）
With respect to a retirement allowance mutual aid contract for which the monthly premium for the month containing the date on which this Act comes into effect (hereinafter referred to as the "Effective Date") must be increased to 5,000 yen or more pursuant to Article 4, paragraph (2) of the Small and Medium Sized Enterprise Retirement Allowance Cooperative Act as amended (hereinafter referred to as the "New Act"), notwithstanding the provisions of that paragraph, the monthly premium may be 4,000 yen until the day on which two years have elapsed counting from the Effective Date; provided, however, that this does not apply on or after the day on which the monthly premium is increased to an amount of 5,000 yen or more pursuant to Article 9 of the New Act.
With respect to a retirement allowance mutual aid contract under the preceding paragraph for which the Minister of Labour certifies that it is extremely difficult to increase the monthly premium to 5,000 yen or more after the expiry of the period prescribed in the main clause of that paragraph (hereinafter referred to as a "certified contract" in this Article), notwithstanding Article 4, paragraph (2) of the New Act, the monthly premium may be 4,000 yen even after the expiry of that period, until the date specified by Order of the Ministry of Labour. In this case, the proviso to the preceding paragraph applies mutatis mutandis.
Matters necessary for the certification under the preceding paragraph are specified by Order of the Ministry of Labour.
前項の規定による認定に関し必要な事項は、労働省令で定める。
With respect to a retirement allowance mutual aid contract under paragraph (1) whose monthly premium is 4,000 yen at the expiry of the period prescribed in the main clause of that paragraph (excluding a certified contract), the monthly premium is deemed to have been increased to 5,000 yen at the time of the expiry of that period.
With respect to a certified contract whose monthly premium is 4,000 yen at the expiry of the period up to the date specified by Order of the Ministry of Labour prescribed in paragraph (2), the monthly premium is deemed to have been increased to 5,000 yen at the time of the expiry of that period.
With respect to a retirement allowance mutual aid contract relating to a covered employee who is a mariner to whom the Mariners Act (Act No. 100 of 1947) applies, the phrase "Minister of Labour" in paragraph (2) is deemed to be replaced with "Minister of Transport", the phrase "Order of the Ministry of Labour" in that paragraph with "Order of the Ministry of Transport", and the phrase "Order of the Ministry of Labour" in paragraph (3) and the preceding paragraph with "Order of the Ministry of Transport".
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
covered employeemachine translation
「被共済者」
A person to whom the Organization (機構) must pay a retirement allowance (退職金) when they leave their employment, under 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 (7)· applies throughout the law
the New Actmachine translation
「新法」
This Act as amended by Act No. 63 of 1995.
Short name set inSupplementary Provisions, Article 2, paragraph (1)
the Effective Datemachine translation
「施行日」
The date Act No. 63 of 1995, the amending Act these supplementary provisions (附則) belong to, comes into effect.
Short name set inSupplementary Provisions, Article 2, paragraph (1)
certified contractmachine translation
「認定契約」
In Article 2 of the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 63 of 1995, a retirement allowance mutual aid contract (退職金共済契約) that had to raise its monthly premium (掛金月額) to 5,000 yen or more when that Act came into effect, and that the Minister of Labour (労働大臣) has certified would find it extremely hard to do so after the two years in which it could stay at 4,000 yen; it may keep paying 4,000 yen until a day an Order of the Ministry of Labour (労働省令) sets.
Short name set inSupplementary Provisions, Article 2, paragraph (2)· applies only in this article