Supplementary Provisions, Article 4Transitional Measures Concerning the Acceptance of Accepted Amounts from a Body That Has Discontinued Its Retirement Allowance Mutual Aid Business, etc.
第四条（退職金共済事業を廃止した団体からの受入金額の受入れ等に関する経過措置）
The provisions of Article 31-2 of the New SME Retirement Allowance Act apply to the case where, with respect to an employer that had concluded a contract concerning retirement allowance mutual aid with a discontinued body (meaning a discontinued body prescribed in paragraph (1) of that Article; the same applies in the following paragraph), the retirement allowance mutual aid business is discontinued on or after the Effective Date.
新中退法第三十一条の二の規定は、廃止団体（同条第一項に規定する廃止団体をいう。次項において同じ。）と退職金共済に関する契約を締結していた事業主について、施行日以後に退職金共済事業が廃止された場合について適用する。
Where an employer prescribed in the preceding paragraph concludes a retirement allowance mutual aid contract (excluding one pertaining to a short-time covered employee prescribed in Article 4, paragraph (2) of the New SME Retirement Allowance Act; the same applies hereinafter in this Article) on or after the Effective Date and makes the request under Article 31-2, paragraph (1) of the New SME Retirement Allowance Act, and the monthly amount of the premium pertaining to the contract concerning retirement allowance mutual aid with the discontinued body at the time when that discontinued body discontinued the retirement allowance mutual aid business (where the monthly amount of that premium has a fraction of less than 1,000 yen, the fraction is rounded down if it is less than 500 yen, and is treated as 1,000 yen if it is 500 yen or more; the same applies hereinafter in this paragraph) was less than 5,000 yen, the monthly premium may, notwithstanding Article 4, paragraph (2) of the New SME Retirement Allowance Act, be an amount of 2,000 yen (or, where the monthly amount of that premium exceeds 2,000 yen, the monthly amount of that premium) or more and less than 5,000 yen during the period from the month containing the day on which that retirement allowance mutual aid contract was concluded to the month containing the day on which three years have elapsed from that day; provided, however, that this does not apply where the monthly premium on the day on which that retirement allowance mutual aid contract takes effect is made 5,000 yen or more, or on or after the day on which the monthly premium has been increased to an amount of 5,000 yen or more pursuant to Article 9, paragraph (1) of the New SME Retirement Allowance Act.
前項に規定する事業主が、施行日以後に退職金共済契約（新中退法第四条第二項に規定する短時間労働被共済者に係るものを除く。以下この条において同じ。）を締結し、新中退法第三十一条の二第一項の規定による申出をした場合であって、当該廃止団体が退職金共済事業を廃止したときにおける当該退職金共済に関する契約に係る掛金の月額（当該掛金の月額に千円未満の端数がある場合においては、その端数金額が五百円未満であるときは、これを切り捨て、その端数金額が五百円以上であるときは、これを千円として計算する。以下この項において同じ。）が五千円未満であったときには、当該退職金共済契約を締結した日の属する月から起算して三年を経過する日の属する月までの間は、掛金月額は、新中退法第四条第二項の規定にかかわらず、二千円（当該掛金の月額が二千円を超えるときは、当該掛金の月額）以上五千円未満の額とすることができる。ただし、当該退職金共済契約の効力が生ずる日における掛金月額を五千円以上とした場合及び新中退法第九条第一項の規定により掛金月額が五千円以上の額に増加された日以後においては、この限りでない。
The Organization for Workers' Retirement Allowance Mutual Aid must not, notwithstanding Article 9, paragraph (2) of the New SME Retirement Allowance Act, accept an application for a reduction of the monthly premium from a mutual aid policyholder (meaning a mutual aid policyholder prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (6) of the New SME Retirement Allowance Act) pertaining to a retirement allowance mutual aid contract whose monthly premium has been made less than 5,000 yen pursuant to the main clause of the preceding paragraph, during the period prescribed in the main clause of the preceding paragraph, even in the cases set out in the items of Article 8, paragraph (3) of the New SME Retirement Allowance Act; provided, however, that this does not apply to an application for a reduction of the monthly premium to an amount of 5,000 yen or more made after the monthly premium has been increased to an amount exceeding 5,000 yen pursuant to Article 9, paragraph (1) of the New SME Retirement Allowance Act.
独立行政法人勤労者退職金共済機構は、前項本文の規定により掛金月額を五千円未満の額とした退職金共済契約に係る共済契約者（新中退法第二条第六項に規定する共済契約者をいう。）からの掛金月額の減少の申込みについては、新中退法第九条第二項の規定にかかわらず、前項本文に規定する期間中は、新中退法第八条第三項各号に掲げる場合においても、これを承諾してはならない。ただし、新中退法第九条第一項の規定により掛金月額が五千円を超える額に増加された後における五千円以上の額への掛金月額の減少の申込みについては、この限りでない。
Among retirement allowance mutual aid contracts whose monthly premium has been made less than 5,000 yen pursuant to the main clause of paragraph (2), the monthly premium pertaining to a contract whose monthly premium is, at the expiry of the period prescribed in the main clause of that paragraph, actually less than 5,000 yen is deemed to have been increased to 5,000 yen at the time of the expiry of that period.
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
short-time covered employeemachine translation
「短時間労働被共済者」
In Article 4, paragraph (2) and Article 27, paragraph (4), a covered employee (被共済者) whose prescribed weekly working hours, on the day the retirement allowance mutual aid contract (退職金共済契約) is applied for, are shorter than those of the employer's ordinary employees and fewer than the number of hours the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare (厚生労働大臣) sets; their monthly premium (掛金月額) may be as low as 2,000 yen instead of 5,000 yen.
Short name set inArticle 4, paragraph (2)· applies only in this provision and in Article 27, paragraph (4)
New SME Retirement Allowance Actmachine translation
「新中退法」
This Act as amended by Article 1 of Act No. 17 of 2015.
Short name set inSupplementary Provisions, Article 2, paragraph (1)
the Effective Datemachine translation
「施行日」
The date Act No. 17 of 2015, the amending Act these supplementary provisions (附則) belong to, comes into effect.
Short name set inSupplementary Provisions, Article 2, paragraph (1)
retirement allowance mutual aid contractmachine translation
「退職金共済契約」
In Articles 2 and 4 of the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 17 of 2015, a retirement allowance mutual aid contract as defined in Article 2, paragraph (3) of the Small and Medium Sized Enterprise Retirement Allowance Cooperative Act as Act No. 17 of 2015 amended it.
Defined inSupplementary Provisions, Article 2, paragraph (1)· applies only in this provision and in Supplementary Provisions, Article 4
discontinued bodymachine translation
「廃止団体」
In Article 4 of the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 17 of 2015, a discontinued body as defined in Article 31-2, paragraph (1) of the Small and Medium Sized Enterprise Retirement Allowance Cooperative Act as Act No. 17 of 2015 amended it.
Defined inSupplementary Provisions, Article 4, paragraph (1)· applies only in this provision and in Supplementary Provisions, Article 4, paragraph (2)
Organization for Workers' Retirement Allowance Mutual Aid
独立行政法人勤労者退職金共済機構
A public body the State sets up by law, as an incorporated administrative agency (独立行政法人), under the Small and Medium Sized Enterprise Retirement Allowance Cooperative Act (中小企業退職金共済法) and the Act on General Rules for Incorporated Administrative Agencies (独立行政法人通則法) (Article 57 of the Retirement Allowance Cooperative Act). Its purpose is to run the retirement allowance mutual aid scheme for the employees of small and medium-sized enterprises and to promote workers' planned asset formation (Article 58 of that Act). It carries on the business of retirement allowance mutual aid contracts (退職金共済契約) and of specified-industry retirement allowance mutual aid contracts (特定業種退職金共済契約), which cover industries the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare designates, such as construction, where many workers move between employers in the same industry (Article 2, paragraph (4) and Article 70, paragraph (1) of that Act). Under a retirement allowance mutual aid contract, an employer promises to pay premiums to the Organization, and the Organization promises to pay retirement allowances, as that Act provides, when the employer's employees leave (Article 2, paragraph (3) of that Act).
Written by AI using Small and Medium Sized Enterprise Retirement Allowance Cooperative Act, Arts. 2, 57, 58, 70 as a reference.