# 中小企業退職金共済法 / Small and Medium Sized Enterprise Retirement Allowance Cooperative Act — 第十八条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 18) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4071-63/art-18. 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: 第十八条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 18)（政令への委任） — address `suppl-4071-63/art-18` - 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-18 - 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). 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第十八条（政令への委任） — Delegation to Cabinet Order caption: machine translation, not official suppl-4071-63/art-18 · https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4071-63/art-18 **第一項** 附則第二条から第十六条までに定めるもののほか、この法律の施行に関し必要な経過措置は、政令で定める。 suppl-4071-63/art-18/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4071-63/art-18/par-1 In addition to what is provided for in Articles 2 through 16 of the Supplementary Provisions, necessary transitional measures for the enforcement of this Act are specified by Cabinet Order. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-4071-63/art-18/par-1: 附則第二条から第十六条まで → 中小企業退職金共済法 附則第十条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 10), suppl-4071-63/art-10 — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4071-63/art-10 - suppl-4071-63/art-18/par-1: 附則第二条から第十六条まで → 中小企業退職金共済法 附則第十一条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 11), suppl-4071-63/art-11 — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4071-63/art-11 - suppl-4071-63/art-18/par-1: 附則第二条から第十六条まで → 中小企業退職金共済法 附則第十二条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 12), suppl-4071-63/art-12 — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4071-63/art-12 - suppl-4071-63/art-18/par-1: 附則第二条から第十六条まで → 中小企業退職金共済法 附則第十三条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 13), suppl-4071-63/art-13 — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4071-63/art-13 - suppl-4071-63/art-18/par-1: 附則第二条から第十六条まで → 中小企業退職金共済法 附則第十四条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 14), suppl-4071-63/art-14 — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4071-63/art-14 - suppl-4071-63/art-18/par-1: 附則第二条から第十六条まで → 中小企業退職金共済法 附則第十五条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 15), suppl-4071-63/art-15 — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4071-63/art-15 - suppl-4071-63/art-18/par-1: 附則第二条から第十六条まで → 中小企業退職金共済法 附則第十六条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 16), suppl-4071-63/art-16 — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4071-63/art-16 - suppl-4071-63/art-18/par-1: 附則第二条から第十六条まで → 中小企業退職金共済法 附則第二条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 2), suppl-4071-63/art-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4071-63/art-2 - suppl-4071-63/art-18/par-1: 附則第二条から第十六条まで → 中小企業退職金共済法 附則第三条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 3), suppl-4071-63/art-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4071-63/art-3 - suppl-4071-63/art-18/par-1: 附則第二条から第十六条まで → 中小企業退職金共済法 附則第四条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 4), suppl-4071-63/art-4 — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4071-63/art-4 - suppl-4071-63/art-18/par-1: 附則第二条から第十六条まで → 中小企業退職金共済法 附則第五条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 5), suppl-4071-63/art-5 — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4071-63/art-5 - suppl-4071-63/art-18/par-1: 附則第二条から第十六条まで → 中小企業退職金共済法 附則第六条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 6), suppl-4071-63/art-6 — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4071-63/art-6 - suppl-4071-63/art-18/par-1: 附則第二条から第十六条まで → 中小企業退職金共済法 附則第七条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 7), suppl-4071-63/art-7 — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4071-63/art-7 - suppl-4071-63/art-18/par-1: 附則第二条から第十六条まで → 中小企業退職金共済法 附則第八条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 8), suppl-4071-63/art-8 — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4071-63/art-8 - suppl-4071-63/art-18/par-1: 附則第二条から第十六条まで → 中小企業退職金共済法 附則第九条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 9), suppl-4071-63/art-9 — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4071-63/art-9 --- ## 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-20261106T173426-026, 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