# 中小企業退職金共済法 / Small and Medium Sized Enterprise Retirement Allowance Cooperative Act — 第七条 (Article 7) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-7. 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: 第七条 (Article 7)（契約の成立） — address `art-7` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-7 - 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. --- ### 第七条（契約の成立） — Formation of Contracts caption: machine translation, not official art-7 · https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-7 **第一項** 退職金共済契約は、機構がその申込みを承諾したときは、その申込みの日において成立したものとみなし、かつ、その日から効力を生ずる。 art-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-7/par-1 A retirement allowance mutual aid contract is deemed to have been formed on the date of the application when the Organization accepts the application, and takes effect from that date. machine translation, not official **第二項** 退職金共済契約が成立したときは、共済契約者は、遅滞なく、その旨を被共済者に通知しなければならない。 art-7/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-7/par-2 When a retirement allowance mutual aid contract has been formed, the mutual aid policyholder must notify the covered employee to that effect without delay. machine translation, not official **第三項** 機構は、退職金共済契約の成立後遅滞なく、共済契約者に退職金共済手帳を交付しなければならない。 art-7/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-7/par-3 The Organization must, without delay after the formation of a retirement allowance mutual aid contract, deliver a retirement allowance mutual aid book to the mutual aid policyholder. machine translation, not official **第四項** 退職金共済手帳は、掛金の納付状況を明らかにすることができるものでなければならない。 art-7/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-7/par-4 The retirement allowance mutual aid book must be capable of showing the status of premium payments. machine translation, not official ## Cited by 6 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 中小企業退職金共済法 第八条第五項（契約の解除） — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-8/par-5 - 中小企業退職金共済法 第九条第四項（掛金月額の変更） — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-9/par-4 - 中小企業退職金共済法 第二十八条第三項（過去勤務掛金の納付） — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-28/par-3 - 中小企業退職金共済法 第五十一条第一項（準用） — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-51/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 - 印紙税法 別表第三（非課税文書の表） — https://japanlaw.org/en/stamp-tax-act/appdx-3 (e-Gov law ID 342AC0000000023) --- ## 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-20261106T173426-002, 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