Article 45Measures to Reduce the Burden of Premiums to Promote Enrollment, etc.
第四十五条（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 specified-industry retirement allowance mutual aid contracts by small and medium-sized enterprises that carry on businesses belonging to a specified industry and otherwise to ensure the smooth implementation of the retirement allowance mutual aid business for small and medium-sized enterprises under the provisions of this Chapter, the Organization may, as provided by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, exempt mutual aid policyholders from paying premiums for a certain number of days, as a measure to reduce their burden of premiums.
機構は、特定業種に属する事業を営む中小企業者が特定業種退職金共済契約の申込みをすることの促進その他この章の規定による中小企業退職金共済事業の円滑な実施を図るため、厚生労働省令で定めるところにより、共済契約者の掛金に係る負担を軽減する措置として、一定の日分の掛金の納付を免除することができる。
When converting into a number of months under Article 43, paragraph (1), or calculating the amount to be transferred under Article 46, paragraph (1) or Article 55, paragraph (4), with regard to a covered employee for whom there is a day on which a measure of exemption from the payment of premiums was taken under the provisions of the preceding paragraph, premiums are deemed to have been paid for that day.
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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
specified industrymachine translation
「特定業種」
Construction or another industry, designated by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare (厚生労働大臣), in which many employees normally move between the many businesses of that industry and are employed by their employers in turn.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (4)· applies throughout the law
specified-industry retirement allowance mutual aid contractmachine translation
「特定業種退職金共済契約」
A contract under which an employer (事業主) in a specified industry (特定業種) promises to pay premiums (掛金) to the Organization (機構), and the Organization promises to pay a retirement allowance (退職金), as this Act provides, when a person leaves who is employed by that employer for a fixed term and normally works in that industry.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (5)· 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
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