# 中小企業退職金共済法 / Small and Medium Sized Enterprise Retirement Allowance Cooperative Act — 第七条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 7)

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- 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
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- Provision: 第七条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 7)（特定業種に係る退職金の支給に関する経過措置） — address `suppl-3501-40/art-7`
- Text in force since: 2025-06-01
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### 第七条（特定業種に係る退職金の支給に関する経過措置） — Transitional Measures Concerning Payment of Retirement Allowances for the Specified Industry
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<sup>suppl-3501-40/art-7 · https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-3501-40/art-7</sup>

**第一項**  新法第八十二条第一項ただし書の規定は、施行日以後に支給事由が生じた者に係る退職金の支給について適用し、施行日前に支給事由が生じた者に係る退職金の支給については、なお従前の例による。
<sup>suppl-3501-40/art-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-3501-40/art-7/par-1</sup>
The proviso to Article 82, paragraph (1) of the New Act applies to the payment of retirement allowances to persons for whom the cause for payment arises on or after the Effective Date, and the provisions then in force continue to govern the payment of retirement allowances to persons for whom the cause for payment arose before the Effective Date.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- suppl-3501-40/art-7/par-1: 新法第八十二条第一項 → 中小企業退職金共済法 第八十二条第一項 (Article 82, paragraph (1)), art-82/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-82/par-1

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## 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-20261106T173426-019, 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