# 中小企業退職金共済法 / Small and Medium Sized Enterprise Retirement Allowance Cooperative Act — 第二十条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 20) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-3551-85/art-20. 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: 第二十条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 20)（経過措置） — address `suppl-3551-85/art-20` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-3551-85/art-20 - 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. --- ### 第二十条（経過措置） — Transitional Measures caption: machine translation, not official suppl-3551-85/art-20 · https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-3551-85/art-20 **第一項** この法律の施行前にしたこの法律による改正に係る国の機関の法律若しくはこれに基づく命令の規定による許可、認可その他の処分又は契約その他の行為（以下この条において「処分等」という。）は、政令で定めるところにより、この法律による改正後のそれぞれの法律若しくはこれに基づく命令の規定により又はこれらの規定に基づく所掌事務の区分に応じ、相当の国の機関のした処分等とみなす。 suppl-3551-85/art-20/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-3551-85/art-20/par-1 Permission, authorization or any other disposition, or a contract or any other act (hereinafter referred to as a "disposition, etc." in this Article), made before this Act comes into effect by a national government organ affected by the amendments made by this Act pursuant to the provisions of a law or an order based on it, is, pursuant to the provisions of Cabinet Order, deemed to be a disposition, etc. made by the corresponding national government organ pursuant to the provisions of the respective laws as amended by this Act or orders based on them, or in accordance with the division of affairs under its jurisdiction based on those provisions. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-3551-85/art-20/par-1: この条 → 中小企業退職金共済法 附則第二十条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 20), suppl-3551-85/art-20 — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-3551-85/art-20 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 中小企業退職金共済法 附則第二十条第一項（経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-3551-85/art-20/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-20261106T173426-020, 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