# 中小企業退職金共済法 / Small and Medium Sized Enterprise Retirement Allowance Cooperative Act — 第三条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 3) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-3561-38/art-3. 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: 第三条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 3) — address `suppl-3561-38/art-3` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-3561-38/art-3 - 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. --- ### 第三条 suppl-3561-38/art-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-3561-38/art-3 **第一項** 労働大臣は、設立委員を命じて、新組合の設立に関する事務を処理させる。 suppl-3561-38/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-3561-38/art-3/par-1 The Minister of Labour appoints founding committee members and has them handle the affairs relating to the establishment of the new Association. machine translation, not official **第二項** 設立委員は、定款並びに最初の事業年度の予算及び事業計画を作成して、労働大臣の認可を受けなければならない。 suppl-3561-38/art-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-3561-38/art-3/par-2 The founding committee members must prepare the articles of incorporation and the budget and business plan for the first business year, and obtain the authorization of the Minister of Labour. machine translation, not official **第三項** 労働大臣は、前項の認可をしようとするときは、あらかじめ、大蔵大臣と協議しなければならない。 suppl-3561-38/art-3/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-3561-38/art-3/par-3 When the Minister of Labour intends to give the authorization under the preceding paragraph, the Minister must consult in advance with the Minister of Finance. machine translation, not official **第四項** 設立委員は、新組合の設立の準備を完了したときは、その旨を労働大臣に届け出るとともに、その事務を前条第一項の規定により指名された理事長となるべき者に引き継がなければならない。 suppl-3561-38/art-3/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-3561-38/art-3/par-4 When the founding committee members have completed the preparations for the establishment of the new Association, they must notify the Minister of Labour to that effect and hand over those affairs to the person who is to become the president designated pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) of the preceding Article. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-3561-38/art-3/par-3: 前項 → 中小企業退職金共済法 附則第三条第二項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 3, paragraph (2)), suppl-3561-38/art-3/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-3561-38/art-3/par-2 - suppl-3561-38/art-3/par-4: 前条第一項 → 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-3561-38/art-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-3561-38/art-2/par-1 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 中小企業退職金共済法 附則第一条第一項（施行期日） — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-3561-38/art-1/par-1 - 中小企業退職金共済法 附則第三条第三項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-3561-38/art-3/par-3 - 中小企業退職金共済法 附則第四条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-3561-38/art-4/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-20261106T173426-021, 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