# 中小企業退職金共済法 / Small and Medium Sized Enterprise Retirement Allowance Cooperative Act — 第九条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 9)

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- 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
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- Provision: 第九条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 9) — address `suppl-4071-63/art-9`
- Text in force since: 2025-06-01
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### 第九条
<sup>suppl-4071-63/art-9 · https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4071-63/art-9</sup>

**第一項**  一部施行日前に効力を生じた退職金共済契約の被共済者のうち、その者について過去勤務掛金が納付されたことのある者であって、退職金共済契約の効力が生じた日の属する月から五年（過去勤務期間が五年に満たないときは、当該過去勤務期間の年数）を経過する月までの一部の月につき過去勤務掛金が納付されていないもの（以下この条において読み替えて適用する附則第七条及び附則第十三条において「第九条被共済者」という。）が一部施行日以後に退職したときにおける退職金の額は、次の各号に掲げる掛金納付月数の区分に応じ、当該各号に定める額とする。
<sup>suppl-4071-63/art-9/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4071-63/art-9/par-1</sup>
The amount of a retirement allowance in the case where a covered employee, among covered employees under retirement allowance mutual aid contracts that took effect before the Partial Effective Date, for whom a past service premium has been paid and for whom a past service premium has not been paid for some of the months from the month containing the day on which the retirement allowance mutual aid contract took effect through the month in which five years elapse (where the past service period is less than five years, the number of years of that past service period) (hereinafter referred to as an "Article 9 covered employee" in Article 7 of the Supplementary Provisions as applied with terms replaced pursuant to this Article and in Article 13 of the Supplementary Provisions) retires on or after the Partial Effective Date is the amount specified in each of the following items according to the category of the number of months of paid premiums set out in that item.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

  **一**  十一月以下　納付された過去勤務掛金の総額
  <sup>suppl-4071-63/art-9/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4071-63/art-9/par-1/item-1</sup>
  11 months or less: the total amount of past service premiums paid;
  <sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

  **二**  十二月以上五十九月以下　過去勤務掛金が納付されたことがないものとみなして、附則第七条中「第七条被共済者」とあるのは「第九条被共済者」として同条の規定を適用した場合に得られる額に納付された過去勤務掛金の総額（過去勤務掛金の納付があった月数が四十三月以上であるときは、過去勤務掛金の額に過去勤務掛金の納付があった月数に応じ旧法別表第四の下欄に定める率を乗じて得た額。次号において同じ。）を加算した額
  <sup>suppl-4071-63/art-9/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4071-63/art-9/par-1/item-2</sup>
  12 months or more and 59 months or less: the amount obtained by adding the total amount of past service premiums paid (where the number of months for which past service premiums were paid is 43 months or more, the amount obtained by multiplying the amount of the past service premium by the rate specified in the lower column of Appended Table 4 of the Former Act in accordance with the number of months for which past service premiums were paid; the same applies in the following item) to the amount obtained when, on the assumption that no past service premium has been paid, the provisions of Article 7 of the Supplementary Provisions are applied with the phrase "Article 7 covered employee" in that Article deemed to be replaced with "Article 9 covered employee";
  <sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

  **三**  六十月以上　過去勤務掛金が納付されたことがないものとみなして、附則第七条中「第七条被共済者」とあるのは「第九条被共済者」として同条の規定を適用した場合に得られる額に、掛金納付月数が六十月となった月以後の掛金の納付があった月数に相当する期間につき、納付された過去勤務掛金の総額に対し、年四・五パーセント（平成八年四月前の期間にあっては、年五パーセント）の複利による計算をして得た元利合計額を加算した額
  <sup>suppl-4071-63/art-9/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4071-63/art-9/par-1/item-3</sup>
  60 months or more: the amount obtained by adding, to the amount obtained when, on the assumption that no past service premium has been paid, the provisions of Article 7 of the Supplementary Provisions are applied with the phrase "Article 7 covered employee" in that Article deemed to be replaced with "Article 9 covered employee", the total of principal and interest obtained by calculating compound interest at 4.5 percent per annum (5 percent per annum for the period before April 1996) on the total amount of past service premiums paid, for the period equivalent to the number of months for which premiums were paid on or after the month in which the number of months of paid premiums became 60 months.
  <sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- suppl-4071-63/art-9/par-1: この条 → 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
- suppl-4071-63/art-9/par-1: 附則第七条 → 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-9/par-1: 附則第十三条 → 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-9/par-1/item-2: 附則第七条 → 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-9/par-1/item-2: 次号 → 中小企業退職金共済法 附則第九条第一項第三号 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 9, paragraph (1), item (iii)), suppl-4071-63/art-9/par-1/item-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4071-63/art-9/par-1/item-3
- suppl-4071-63/art-9/par-1/item-3: 附則第七条 → 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

## Cited by

8 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction.

- 中小企業退職金共済法 附則第一条第一項第二号（施行期日） — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4071-63/art-1/par-1/item-2
- 中小企業退職金共済法 附則第五条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4071-63/art-5/par-1
- 中小企業退職金共済法 附則第八条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4071-63/art-8/par-1
- 中小企業退職金共済法 附則第九条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4071-63/art-9/par-1
- 中小企業退職金共済法 附則第九条第一項第二号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4071-63/art-9/par-1/item-2
- 中小企業退職金共済法 附則第十三条第一項第二号ハ — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4071-63/art-13/par-1/item-2/sub-3
- 中小企業退職金共済法 附則第十五条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4071-63/art-15/par-1
- 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

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## 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-20261106T173426-025, 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
