# 中小企業退職金共済法 / Small and Medium Sized Enterprise Retirement Allowance Cooperative Act — 第四条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 4) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-3561-38/art-4. 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: 第四条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 4) — address `suppl-3561-38/art-4` - 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-4 - 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. --- ### 第四条 suppl-3561-38/art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-3561-38/art-4 **第一項** 附則第二条第一項の規定により指名された理事長となるべき者は、前条第四項の規定による事務の引継ぎを受けたときは、遅滞なく、政令で定めるところにより、設立の登記をしなければならない。 suppl-3561-38/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-3561-38/art-4/par-1 The person who is to become the president designated pursuant to the provisions of Article 2, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions must, upon receiving the handover of affairs under the provisions of paragraph (4) of the preceding Article, without delay, as specified by Cabinet Order, effect the registration of establishment. machine translation, not official **第二項** 新組合は、設立の登記をすることによつて成立する。 suppl-3561-38/art-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-3561-38/art-4/par-2 The new Association is established by effecting the registration of establishment. machine translation, not official **第三項** 新組合の成立の時において改正前の中小企業退職金共済法（以下「旧法」という。）第五章第二節の特定業種退職金共済組合（以下「旧組合」という。）の組合員である者は、その時において新組合の組合員となるものとする。 suppl-3561-38/art-4/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-3561-38/art-4/par-3 A person who, at the time of the establishment of the new Association, is a member of the specified-industry retirement allowance mutual aid association (hereinafter referred to as the "former Association") under Chapter V, Section 2 of the Small and Medium Sized Enterprise Retirement Allowance Cooperative Act before amendment (hereinafter referred to as the "Former Act") is to become a member of the new Association at that time. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-3561-38/art-4/par-1: 附則第二条第一項 → 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 - suppl-3561-38/art-4/par-1: 前条第四項 → 中小企業退職金共済法 附則第三条第四項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 3, paragraph (4)), suppl-3561-38/art-3/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-3561-38/art-3/par-4 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 中小企業退職金共済法 附則第一条第一項（施行期日） — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-3561-38/art-1/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 - claude-sonnet-5-5, corrected on review by claude-opus-5-5 — Machine translation corrected on review, 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