# 中小企業退職金共済法 / Small and Medium Sized Enterprise Retirement Allowance Cooperative Act — 第一条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 1) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4021-39/art-1. 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: 第一条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 1)（施行期日） — address `suppl-4021-39/art-1` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4021-39/art-1 - 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. --- ### 第一条（施行期日） — Effective Date caption: machine translation, not official suppl-4021-39/art-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4021-39/art-1 **第一項** この法律は、平成三年四月一日から施行する。ただし、第四条第二項及び第二十一条の二第四項の改正規定（「三千円」を「四千円」に改める部分に限る。）並びに次条第一項から第四項までの規定は、同年十二月一日から施行する。 suppl-4021-39/art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4021-39/art-1/par-1 This Act comes into effect on April 1, 1991; provided, however, that the provisions amending Article 4, paragraph (2) and Article 21-2, paragraph (4) (limited to the part replacing "3,000 yen" with "4,000 yen") and the provisions of paragraphs (1) through (4) of the following Article come into effect on December 1 of the same year. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-4021-39/art-1/par-1: 次条第一項から第四項まで → 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-4021-39/art-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4021-39/art-2/par-1 - suppl-4021-39/art-1/par-1: 次条第一項から第四項まで → 中小企業退職金共済法 附則第二条第二項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 2, paragraph (2)), suppl-4021-39/art-2/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4021-39/art-2/par-2 - suppl-4021-39/art-1/par-1: 次条第一項から第四項まで → 中小企業退職金共済法 附則第二条第三項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 2, paragraph (3)), suppl-4021-39/art-2/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4021-39/art-2/par-3 - suppl-4021-39/art-1/par-1: 次条第一項から第四項まで → 中小企業退職金共済法 附則第二条第四項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 2, paragraph (4)), suppl-4021-39/art-2/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4021-39/art-2/par-4 --- ## 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-20261106T173426-018, translated 2026-11-07 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch sme-retirement-allowance-act-20261106T173426-023, 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