# 中小企業退職金共済法 / Small and Medium Sized Enterprise Retirement Allowance Cooperative Act — 第五十二条 (Article 52) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-52. 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: 第五十二条 (Article 52)（被共済者に関する経過措置） — address `art-52` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-52 - 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. Only the Japanese as published by the government has legal effect; the text below is a copy of it. Every English rendering below is a translation and says which kind: the Ministry of Justice's translation, or this site's machine translation, whose model and date the Sources list names. They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第五十二条（被共済者に関する経過措置） — Transitional Measures Concerning Covered Employees caption: machine translation, not official art-52 · https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-52 **第一項** 機構は、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、当該業務の正常な運営を図るため必要がある場合において、厚生労働大臣の認可を受けたときは、第四十一条第二項の規定にかかわらず、当該特定業種に係る共済契約者の雇用する従業員のうち一定の職種、地域等に係る者が一定の期間内は被共済者とならないものとすることができる。ただし、この期間は、当該特定業種に係る同号に掲げる業務の開始の日から五年を超えることができない。 art-52/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-52/par-1 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, if it is necessary for the sound administration of those operations and the Organization has obtained the authorization of the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare, then notwithstanding the provisions of Article 41, paragraph (2), it may provide that, among the employees employed by mutual aid policyholders for that specified industry, those in certain types of occupation, regions, etc. are not to become covered employees within a certain period; provided, however, that this period may not exceed five years from the date of commencement of the operations listed in that item for that specified industry. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-52/par-1: 第七十条第一項第一号 → 中小企業退職金共済法 第七十条第一項第一号 (Article 70, paragraph (1), item (i)), art-70/par-1/item-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-70/par-1/item-1 - art-52/par-1: 第四十一条第二項 → 中小企業退職金共済法 第四十一条第二項 (Article 41, paragraph (2)), art-41/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-41/par-2 --- ## 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