# 中小企業退職金共済法 / Small and Medium Sized Enterprise Retirement Allowance Cooperative Act — 第十条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 10)

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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: 第十条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 10)（退職金共済契約等に関する経過措置） — address `suppl-4091-68/art-10`
- Text in force since: 2025-06-01
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### 第十条（退職金共済契約等に関する経過措置） — Transitional Measures concerning Retirement Allowance Mutual Aid Contracts, etc.
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<sup>suppl-4091-68/art-10 · https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4091-68/art-10</sup>

**第一項**  旧法の規定により締結された旧法第二条第三項又は第五項に規定する退職金共済契約又は特定業種退職金共済契約は、それぞれ、新法第二条第三項又は第五項に規定する退職金共済契約又は特定業種退職金共済契約とみなす。
<sup>suppl-4091-68/art-10/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4091-68/art-10/par-1</sup>
A retirement allowance mutual aid contract or specified-industry retirement allowance mutual aid contract prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (3) or (5) of the Former Act that was concluded pursuant to the provisions of the Former Act is deemed to be a retirement allowance mutual aid contract or specified-industry retirement allowance mutual aid contract prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (3) or (5) of the New Act, respectively.
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**第二項**  この法律の施行の際現に旧法第二条第六項又は第七項に規定する共済契約者又は被共済者であった者は、それぞれ、新法第二条第六項又は第七項に規定する共済契約者又は被共済者であった者とみなす。
<sup>suppl-4091-68/art-10/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4091-68/art-10/par-2</sup>
A person who, at the time this Act comes into effect, was a mutual aid policyholder or covered employee prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (6) or (7) of the Former Act is deemed to be a person who was a mutual aid policyholder or covered employee prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (6) or (7) of the New Act, respectively.
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## Cites
- suppl-4091-68/art-10/par-1: 新法第二条第三項 → 中小企業退職金共済法 第二条第三項 (Article 2, paragraph (3)), art-2/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-2/par-3
- suppl-4091-68/art-10/par-1: 第五項 → 中小企業退職金共済法 第二条第五項 (Article 2, paragraph (5)), art-2/par-5 — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-2/par-5
- suppl-4091-68/art-10/par-2: 新法第二条第六項 → 中小企業退職金共済法 第二条第六項 (Article 2, paragraph (6)), art-2/par-6 — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-2/par-6
- suppl-4091-68/art-10/par-2: 第七項 → 中小企業退職金共済法 第二条第七項 (Article 2, paragraph (7)), art-2/par-7 — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-2/par-7

## Cited by

1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction.

- 中小企業退職金共済法 附則第十四条第一項（政令への委任） — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4091-68/art-14/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-20261106T173426-027, translated 2026-11-07
- claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch sme-retirement-allowance-act-20261106T173426-028, 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
