# 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) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-3551-45/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 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 7)（従前の積立事業についての取扱い） — address `suppl-3551-45/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/suppl-3551-45/art-7 - e-Gov law ID: 334AC0000000160 — never renamed. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第七条（従前の積立事業についての取扱い） — Treatment of Previous Savings Schemes caption: machine translation, not official suppl-3551-45/art-7 · https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-3551-45/art-7 **第一項** この法律の施行の際現に新法第二条第一項の中小企業者が共同して実施している従業員のための退職金積立ての事業で労働省令で定める基準に適合すると労働大臣が認定するものに参加している当該中小企業者については、中小企業退職金共済法の一部を改正する法律（昭和三十九年法律第百七号）附則第二条の規定を準用する。この場合において、同条第一項中「この法律の施行後」とあるのは、「中小企業退職金共済法の一部を改正する法律（昭和五十五年法律第四十五号）の施行後」と読み替えるものとする。 suppl-3551-45/art-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-3551-45/art-7/par-1 With regard to a small and medium-sized enterprise that, at the time of the enforcement of this Act, is actually participating in a retirement allowance accumulation project for employees that is carried out jointly by small and medium-sized enterprises under Article 2, paragraph (1) of the New Act, and that the Minister of Labour certifies as conforming to the standards specified by Order of the Ministry of Labour, Article 2 of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the Small and Medium Sized Enterprise Retirement Allowance Cooperative Act (Act No. 107 of 1964) applies mutatis mutandis. In this case, the phrase "after this Act comes into effect" in paragraph (1) of that Article is deemed to be replaced with "after the Act Partially Amending the Small and Medium Sized Enterprise Retirement Allowance Cooperative Act (Act No. 45 of 1980) comes into effect". machine translation, not official **第二項** 前項において準用する中小企業退職金共済法の一部を改正する法律附則第二条第一項の規定により同項に規定する金額が中小企業退職金共済事業団に納付された従業員については、中小企業者は、新法第二十一条の二第一項の規定にかかわらず、同項の申出をすることができない。 suppl-3551-45/art-7/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-3551-45/art-7/par-2 With regard to an employee for whom the amount prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the Small and Medium Sized Enterprise Retirement Allowance Cooperative Act has been paid to the Small and Medium Enterprise Retirement Allowance Mutual Aid Corporation pursuant to the provisions of that paragraph as applied mutatis mutandis in the preceding paragraph, a small and medium-sized enterprise may not, notwithstanding Article 21-2, paragraph (1) of the New Act, make the request under paragraph (1) of that Article. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-3551-45/art-7/par-1: 新法第二条第一項 → 中小企業退職金共済法 第二条第一項 (Article 2, paragraph (1)), art-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-2/par-1 - suppl-3551-45/art-7/par-1: 中小企業退職金共済法の一部を改正する法律（昭和三十九年法律第百七号）附則第二条 → 中小企業退職金共済法 附則第二条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 2), suppl-3391-107/art-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-3391-107/art-2 - suppl-3551-45/art-7/par-1: 同条第一項 → 中小企業退職金共済法 附則第二条第一項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 2, paragraph (1)), suppl-3391-107/art-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-3391-107/art-2/par-1 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 中小企業退職金共済法 附則第五条第一項（過去勤務期間の通算に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-3551-45/art-5/par-1 - 中小企業退職金共済法 附則第九条第一項（政令への委任） — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-3551-45/art-9/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-20261106T173426-010, translated 2026-11-07 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch sme-retirement-allowance-act-20261106T173426-020, 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