Supplementary Provisions, Article 2Treatment of Previous Savings Schemes
第二条（従前の積立事業についての取扱い）
Where a small and medium-sized enterprise that, at the time this Act comes into effect, participates in a retirement allowance savings scheme for employees that small and medium-sized enterprises are then jointly carrying out (hereinafter referred to as a "savings scheme" in this Article) and that the Minister of Labour certifies as conforming to the standards specified by Order of the Ministry of Labour concludes, within one year after this Act comes into effect, a retirement allowance mutual aid contract naming those employees as covered employees, and pays to the Corporation, within the range of the amount accumulated in that savings scheme for those employees, the amount obtained by multiplying the amount specified in the left-hand column of the Appended Table of the Supplementary Provisions by the number obtained by dividing the monthly premium on the day on which that retirement allowance mutual aid contract took effect by 100 yen, the number of months specified in the right-hand column of that table is to be aggregated with the number of months of paid premiums. In this case, the number of months to be aggregated may not exceed the number of months of the period during which the small and medium-sized enterprise participated in the savings scheme for those employees (or, where the number of months of that period exceeds 72 months, 72 months).
この法律の施行の際現に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。）で労働省令で定める基準に適合すると労働大臣が認定するものに参加している中小企業者が、この法律の施行後一年以内に、当該従業員を被共済者として退職金共済契約を締結し、当該従業員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、附則別表の上欄に定める金額に当該退職金共済契約の効力が生じた日における掛金月額を百円で除した数を乗じて得た金額を事業団に納付したときは、同表の下欄に定める月数を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こえるときは、七十二月）をこえることができない。
When the Minister of Labour intends to establish, pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, an Order of the Ministry of Labour concerning the standards for certification of savings schemes, the Minister must consult the Minister of Finance and the Minister of International Trade and Industry.
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
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
number of months of paid premiumsmachine translation
「掛金納付月数」
The number of months for which premiums (掛金) have been paid for a covered employee (被共済者); no retirement allowance (退職金) is paid if it is under 12.
Short name set inArticle 10, paragraph (1)
savings schememachine translation
「積立事業」
In Article 2 of the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 107 of 1964, a retirement allowance savings scheme for employees that small and medium-sized enterprises (中小企業者) were running jointly when that Act came into effect, and that the Minister of Labour (労働大臣) certifies as meeting standards an Order of the Ministry of Labour (労働省令) sets; money paid from it to the Small and Medium Enterprise Retirement Allowance Mutual Aid Corporation (事業団) within a year adds months to the employee's months of paid premiums.
Short name set inSupplementary Provisions, Article 2, paragraph (1)· applies only in this article