# 中小企業退職金共済法 / Small and Medium Sized Enterprise Retirement Allowance Cooperative Act — 第三十一条の四 (Article 31-4) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-31-4. Every law, and how to address a provision: https://japanlaw.org/llms.txt. The same laws as MCP tools (no sign-in): https://japanlaw.org/mcp. - Law: 中小企業退職金共済法 (Small and Medium Sized Enterprise Retirement Allowance Cooperative Act), 昭和三十四年法律第百六十号 - English title "Small and Medium Sized Enterprise Retirement Allowance Cooperative Act": Ministry of Justice translation database, which lists the title - Kind: Act — the distinction between 法律 (Act), 政令 (Cabinet Order), 省令 (Ministerial Order) and 条例 (local ordinance) decides who may issue it and what it may say. - Provision: 第三十一条の四 (Article 31-4)（資産管理運用機関等への解約手当金に相当する額の移換等） — address `art-31-4` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-31-4 - e-Gov law ID: 334AC0000000160 — never renamed. A permanent link, `/l/{lawId}/{address}` on this site, redirects to the page. - Every provision below carries its address and its URL on the line under it. - Japanese text: e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁). 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第三十一条の四（資産管理運用機関等への解約手当金に相当する額の移換等） — Transfer, etc. of Amounts Equivalent to Cancellation Refunds to Asset Management and Investment Institutions, etc. caption: machine translation, not official art-31-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-31-4 **第一項** 共済契約者が会社法（平成十七年法律第八十六号）その他の法律の規定による合併、会社分割その他の行為として厚生労働省令で定める行為（以下この項において「合併等」という。）をした場合であつて、当該合併等により退職金共済契約が第八条第三項第一号の規定に基づき解除された被共済者を加入者とする確定給付企業年金又は企業型年金加入者とする企業型年金を実施するときは、機構は、当該共済契約者が当該被共済者の同意を得て厚生労働省令で定めるところにより行う確定給付企業年金又は企業型年金（厚生労働省令で定めるものに限る。）への解約手当金に相当する額の移換に関する申出に基づき、資産管理運用機関等又は資産管理機関に当該同意を得た被共済者に係る解約手当金に相当する額を移換するものとする。 art-31-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-31-4/par-1 Where a mutual aid policyholder has carried out a merger, company split or other act specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare as an act under the provisions of the Companies Act (Act No. 86 of 2005) or other laws (hereinafter referred to in this paragraph as a "merger, etc."), and implements a defined-benefit corporate pension in which a covered employee whose retirement allowance mutual aid contract has been cancelled pursuant to the provisions of Article 8, paragraph (3), item (i) as a result of that merger, etc. is a participant, or a corporate-type pension plan in which that covered employee is a participant of a corporate-type pension plan, the Organization is to transfer to the asset management and investment institution, etc. or the asset management institution the amount equivalent to the cancellation refund pertaining to the covered employee whose consent has been obtained, on the basis of an application concerning the transfer of the amount equivalent to the cancellation refund to a defined-benefit corporate pension or corporate-type pension plan (limited to those specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare) that the mutual aid policyholder makes, with the consent of that covered employee, as provided by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare. machine translation, not official **第二項** 前項の規定による申出があつた場合においては、機構は、第十六条第一項の規定にかかわらず、当該被共済者に解約手当金を支給しないものとする。 art-31-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-31-4/par-2 Where an application under the preceding paragraph has been made, the Organization is not to pay a cancellation refund to that covered employee, notwithstanding the provisions of Article 16, paragraph (1). machine translation, not official **第三項** 機構は、第一項の規定による申出に係る被共済者について次に掲げる事由が生じたときは、前項の規定にかかわらず、当該被共済者に解約手当金を支給する。 art-31-4/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-31-4/par-3 Where any of the following events occurs with respect to a covered employee who is the subject of an application under paragraph (1), the Organization pays a cancellation refund to that covered employee, notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding paragraph. machine translation, not official **一** 第一項の規定による申出に係る確定給付企業年金又は確定拠出年金が実施される前に退職又は死亡したとき。 art-31-4/par-3/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-31-4/par-3/item-1 Where the covered employee's retirement or death has occurred before the defined-benefit corporate pension or defined contribution pension pertaining to the application under paragraph (1) is implemented; machine translation, not official **二** 前号に掲げるときのほか、厚生労働省令で定める事由が生じたとき。 art-31-4/par-3/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-31-4/par-3/item-2 In addition to the case set out in the preceding item, where an event specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare has occurred. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-31-4/par-1: この項 → 中小企業退職金共済法 第三十一条の四第一項 (Article 31-4, paragraph (1)), art-31-4/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-31-4/par-1 - art-31-4/par-1: 第八条第三項第一号 → 中小企業退職金共済法 第八条第三項第一号 (Article 8, paragraph (3), item (i)), art-8/par-3/item-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-8/par-3/item-1 - art-31-4/par-2: 前項 → 中小企業退職金共済法 第三十一条の四第一項 (Article 31-4, paragraph (1)), art-31-4/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-31-4/par-1 - art-31-4/par-2: 第十六条第一項 → 中小企業退職金共済法 第十六条第一項 (Article 16, paragraph (1)), art-16/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-16/par-1 - art-31-4/par-3: 第一項 → 中小企業退職金共済法 第三十一条の四第一項 (Article 31-4, paragraph (1)), art-31-4/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-31-4/par-1 - art-31-4/par-3: 前項 → 中小企業退職金共済法 第三十一条の四第二項 (Article 31-4, paragraph (2)), art-31-4/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-31-4/par-2 - art-31-4/par-3/item-1: 第一項 → 中小企業退職金共済法 第三十一条の四第一項 (Article 31-4, paragraph (1)), art-31-4/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-31-4/par-1 - art-31-4/par-3/item-2: 前号 → 中小企業退職金共済法 第三十一条の四第三項第一号 (Article 31-4, paragraph (3), item (i)), art-31-4/par-3/item-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-31-4/par-3/item-1 ## Cited by 8 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 中小企業退職金共済法 第十七条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-17/par-1 - 中小企業退職金共済法 第三十一条の三第一項（資産管理運用機関等からの移換額の移換等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-31-3/par-1 - 中小企業退職金共済法 第三十一条の四第一項（資産管理運用機関等への解約手当金に相当する額の移換等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-31-4/par-1 - 中小企業退職金共済法 第三十一条の四第二項（資産管理運用機関等への解約手当金に相当する額の移換等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-31-4/par-2 - 中小企業退職金共済法 第三十一条の四第三項（資産管理運用機関等への解約手当金に相当する額の移換等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-31-4/par-3 - 中小企業退職金共済法 第三十一条の四第三項第一号（資産管理運用機関等への解約手当金に相当する額の移換等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-31-4/par-3/item-1 - 中小企業退職金共済法 第三十一条の四第三項第二号（資産管理運用機関等への解約手当金に相当する額の移換等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-31-4/par-3/item-2 - 中小企業退職金共済法 附則第七条第一項（中小企業退職金共済法の一部改正に伴う経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4281-66/art-7/par-1 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 中小企業退職金共済法 — the text in force from 2025-06-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/334AC0000000160/20250601_504AC0000000068), retrieved 2026-11-06 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — 中小企業退職金共済法 — its English title as the Ministry of Justice's translation database lists it (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/1775), retrieved 2026-09-23 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch sme-retirement-allowance-act-20261106T173426-007, translated 2026-11-07 - This site's parser, version 225 — 中小企業退職金共済法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-06