# 中小企業退職金共済法 / Small and Medium Sized Enterprise Retirement Allowance Cooperative Act — 第十六条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 16) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4071-63/art-16. 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: 第十六条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 16)（掛金納付月数の通算に関する経過措置） — address `suppl-4071-63/art-16` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4071-63/art-16 - 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. --- ### 第十六条（掛金納付月数の通算に関する経過措置） — Transitional Measures Concerning Aggregation of the Number of Months of Paid Premiums caption: machine translation, not official suppl-4071-63/art-16 · https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4071-63/art-16 **第一項** 新法第十四条の規定は、被共済者が平成五年十二月一日以後に退職し、施行日以後再び被共済者となった場合について適用し、被共済者が同月一日前に退職した場合又は被共済者が同日以後退職し、施行日前に再び被共済者となった場合については、なお従前の例による。 suppl-4071-63/art-16/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4071-63/art-16/par-1 The provisions of Article 14 of the New Act apply where a covered employee retires on or after December 1, 1993 and again becomes a covered employee on or after the Effective Date, and the provisions then in force continue to govern where a covered employee retired before December 1, 1993, or retired on or after that date and again became a covered employee before the Effective Date. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-4071-63/art-16/par-1: 新法第十四条 → 中小企業退職金共済法 第十四条 (Article 14), art-14 — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-14 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 中小企業退職金共済法 附則第十八条第一項（政令への委任） — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4071-63/art-18/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-20261106T173426-022, translated 2026-11-07 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch sme-retirement-allowance-act-20261106T173426-026, 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