# 中小企業退職金共済法 / Small and Medium Sized Enterprise Retirement Allowance Cooperative Act — 第五十一条 (Article 51) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-51. 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: 第五十一条 (Article 51)（準用） — address `art-51` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-51 - 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). English: as marked on each line below. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第五十一条（準用） — Mutatis Mutandis Application caption: machine translation, not official art-51 · https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-51 **第一項** 第五条、第七条第一項、第八条第四項、第十条第五項、第十一条、第十四条、第十五条、第十七条の二、第十九条から第二十一条まで、第三十三条、第三十四条、第三十五条第三項、第三十六条及び第三十八条の規定は、特定業種退職金共済契約について準用する。この場合において、第十四条第一項中「第十条第一項」とあるのは、「第四十三条第四項」と読み替えるものとする。 art-51/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-51/par-1 The provisions of Article 5, Article 7, paragraph (1), Article 8, paragraph (4), Article 10, paragraph (5), Article 11, Article 14, Article 15, Article 17-2, Articles 19 through 21, Article 33, Article 34, Article 35, paragraph (3), Article 36 and Article 38 apply mutatis mutandis to specified-industry retirement allowance mutual aid contracts. In this case, the phrase "Article 10, paragraph (1)" in Article 14, paragraph (1) is deemed to be replaced with "Article 43, paragraph (4)". machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-51/par-1: 第五条 → 中小企業退職金共済法 第五条 (Article 5), art-5 — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-5 - art-51/par-1: 第七条第一項 → 中小企業退職金共済法 第七条第一項 (Article 7, paragraph (1)), art-7/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-7/par-1 - art-51/par-1: 第八条第四項 → 中小企業退職金共済法 第八条第四項 (Article 8, paragraph (4)), art-8/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-8/par-4 - art-51/par-1: 第十条第五項 → 中小企業退職金共済法 第十条第五項 (Article 10, paragraph (5)), art-10/par-5 — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-10/par-5 - art-51/par-1: 第十一条 → 中小企業退職金共済法 第十一条 (Article 11), art-11 — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-11 - art-51/par-1: 第十四条 → 中小企業退職金共済法 第十四条 (Article 14), art-14 — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-14 - art-51/par-1: 第十五条 → 中小企業退職金共済法 第十五条 (Article 15), art-15 — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-15 - art-51/par-1: 第十七条の二 → 中小企業退職金共済法 第十七条の二 (Article 17-2), art-17-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-17-2 - art-51/par-1: 第十九条から第二十一条まで → 中小企業退職金共済法 第十九条 (Article 19), art-19 — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-19 - art-51/par-1: 第十九条から第二十一条まで → 中小企業退職金共済法 第二十条 (Article 20), art-20 — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-20 - art-51/par-1: 第十九条から第二十一条まで → 中小企業退職金共済法 第二十一条 (Article 21), art-21 — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-21 - art-51/par-1: 第三十三条 → 中小企業退職金共済法 第三十三条 (Article 33), art-33 — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-33 - art-51/par-1: 第三十四条 → 中小企業退職金共済法 第三十四条 (Article 34), art-34 — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-34 - art-51/par-1: 第三十五条第三項 → 中小企業退職金共済法 第三十五条第三項 (Article 35, paragraph (3)), art-35/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-35/par-3 - art-51/par-1: 第三十六条 → 中小企業退職金共済法 第三十六条 (Article 36), art-36 — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-36 - art-51/par-1: 第三十八条 → 中小企業退職金共済法 第三十八条 (Article 38), art-38 — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-38 - art-51/par-1: 第十四条第一項 → 中小企業退職金共済法 第十四条第一項 (Article 14, paragraph (1)), art-14/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-14/par-1 - art-51/par-1: 第十条第一項 → 中小企業退職金共済法 第十条第一項 (Article 10, paragraph (1)), art-10/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-10/par-1 - art-51/par-1: 第四十三条第四項 → 中小企業退職金共済法 第四十三条第四項 (Article 43, paragraph (4)), art-43/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-43/par-4 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 中小企業退職金共済法 第四十六条第一項（被共済者が特定業種間を移動した場合の取扱い） — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-46/par-1 - 中小企業退職金共済法 第八十九条第一項第一号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-89/par-1/item-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-20261106T173426-010, 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