When the Organization commences the operations listed in Article 70, paragraph (1), item (i) for a specified industry upon the designation of that specified industry, where a small and medium-sized enterprise engaged in a business belonging to that specified industry that participates in a retirement allowance savings scheme for employees (hereinafter referred to as a "savings scheme" in this Article) that small and medium-sized enterprises engaged in businesses belonging to that specified industry are then jointly carrying out and that the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare certifies as conforming to the standards specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare either responds to the solicitation under Article 73, paragraph (5) and is deemed under Article 73, paragraph (8) to have concluded a specified-industry retirement allowance mutual aid contract with the Organization, or concludes a specified-industry retirement allowance mutual aid contract with the Organization within one year from the date of commencement of the operations listed in that item for that specified industry, and the employee has become a covered employee, if that small and medium-sized enterprise pays to the Organization within that period an amount specified by Cabinet Order within the range of the amount accumulated in that savings scheme for that covered employee, the number of months specified by Cabinet Order in accordance with that amount is to be aggregated with the specified-industry number of months of paid premiums for that covered employee. In this case, the number of months to be aggregated may not exceed the number of months of the period during which that small and medium-sized enterprise participated in the savings scheme for that employee (or, where the number of months of that period exceeds 72 months, 72 months).
機構が特定業種の指定があつたことに伴い当該特定業種に係る第七十条第一項第一号に掲げる業務を開始する際現に当該特定業種に属する事業を営む中小企業者が共同して実施している従業員のための退職金積立ての事業（以下この条において「積立事業」という。）で厚生労働省令で定める基準に適合すると厚生労働大臣が認定するものに参加している当該特定業種に属する事業を営む中小企業者が、第七十三条第五項の規定による募集に応じ、同条第八項の規定によつて機構との間に特定業種退職金共済契約が締結されたものとみなされ、又は当該特定業種に係る同号に掲げる業務の開始の日から一年以内に、機構との間に特定業種退職金共済契約を締結し、当該従業員が被共済者となつた場合において、当該中小企業者が、当該期間内に、当該被共済者について当該積立事業に積み立てられている金額の範囲内で政令で定める金額を機構に納付したときは、その金額に応じて政令で定める月数を当該被共済者に係る特定業種掛金納付月数に通算するものとする。この場合において、通算すべき月数は、当該従業員について当該中小企業者が積立事業に参加していた期間の月数（その期間の月数が七十二月を超えるときは、七十二月）を超えることができない。
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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
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
specified-industry number of months of paid premiumsmachine translation
「特定業種掛金納付月数」
All the days for which premiums (掛金) have been paid under a covered employee's (被共済者) specified-industry retirement allowance mutual aid contract (特定業種退職金共済契約) — leaving out days already counted for a retirement allowance received before — converted into months in a way a Cabinet Order (政令) sets in view of how people in that industry work; the retirement allowance (退職金) is paid according to it.
Defined inArticle 43, paragraph (1)
savings schememachine translation
「積立事業」
In Article 53, a retirement allowance savings scheme for employees that small and medium-sized enterprises (中小企業者) in a specified industry (特定業種) are running jointly when the Organization (機構) begins its mutual aid work for that industry, and that the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare (厚生労働大臣) certifies as meeting standards an Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (厚生労働省令) sets; money paid over from it adds months to the employee's specified-industry number of months of paid premiums (特定業種掛金納付月数).
Short name set inArticle 53, paragraph (1)· applies only in this article