# 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-3611-37/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)（退職金等に関する経過措置） — address `suppl-3611-37/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-3611-37/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（退職金等に関する経過措置） — Transitional Measures Concerning Retirement Allowances, etc. caption: machine translation, not official suppl-3611-37/art-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-3611-37/art-3 **第一項** 改正後の中小企業退職金共済法（以下「新法」という。）第十条第二項並びに第二十一条の四第一項及び第二項の規定は、この法律の施行の日（以下「施行日」という。）以後に退職した者に係る退職金の支給について適用し、施行日前に退職し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。 suppl-3611-37/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-3611-37/art-3/par-1 Article 10, paragraph (2) and Article 21-4, paragraphs (1) and (2) of the Small and Medium Sized Enterprise Retirement Allowance Cooperative Act as amended (hereinafter referred to as the "New Act") apply to the payment of retirement allowances to persons who retire on or after the day of the enforcement of this Act (hereinafter referred to as the "Effective Date"), and the provisions then in force continue to govern the payment of retirement allowances to persons who retired before the Effective Date. machine translation, not official **第二項** 新法第十三条第四項及び第二十一条の四第三項の規定は、施行日以後に退職金共済契約が解除されたときにおける解約手当金の支給について適用し、施行日前に退職金共済契約が解除されたときにおける解約手当金の支給については、なお従前の例による。 suppl-3611-37/art-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-3611-37/art-3/par-2 Article 13, paragraph (4) and Article 21-4, paragraph (3) of the New Act apply to the payment of cancellation refunds where a retirement allowance mutual aid contract is cancelled on or after the Effective Date, and the provisions then in force continue to govern the payment of cancellation refunds where a retirement allowance mutual aid contract was cancelled before the Effective Date. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-3611-37/art-3/par-1: 第十条第二項 → 中小企業退職金共済法 第十条第二項 (Article 10, paragraph (2)), art-10/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-10/par-2 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 中小企業退職金共済法 附則第十条第一項（政令への委任） — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-3611-37/art-10/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 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch sme-retirement-allowance-act-20261106T173426-022, 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