# 中小企業退職金共済法 / Small and Medium Sized Enterprise Retirement Allowance Cooperative Act — 第三条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 3) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4091-68/art-3. 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: 第三条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 3) — address `suppl-4091-68/art-3` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4091-68/art-3 - 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. --- ### 第三条 suppl-4091-68/art-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4091-68/art-3 **第一項** 労働大臣は、設立委員を命じて、次項に規定する事務その他の機構の設立に関する事務を処理させる。 suppl-4091-68/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4091-68/art-3/par-1 The Minister of Labour appoints founding committee members and has them handle the affairs prescribed in the following paragraph and other affairs relating to the establishment of the Organization. machine translation, not official **第二項** 設立委員は、附則第六条第一項の規定による解散前の特定業種退職金共済組合（以下「組合」という。）に特定業種ごとに設けられている運営委員会の議を経て、特定業種退職金共済規程及び業務方法書を作成し、労働大臣の認可を受けなければならない。 suppl-4091-68/art-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4091-68/art-3/par-2 The founding committee members must, after deliberation by the management board established for each specified industry in the specified-industry retirement allowance mutual aid association before its dissolution pursuant to Article 6, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions (hereinafter referred to as the "Association"), prepare the specified-industry retirement allowance mutual aid rules and the business rules, and obtain the authorization of the Minister of Labour. machine translation, not official **第三項** 労働大臣は、前項の規定による認可をしようとするときは、あらかじめ、特定業種退職金共済規程にあっては大蔵大臣に、業務方法書にあっては大蔵大臣及び通商産業大臣に協議しなければならない。 suppl-4091-68/art-3/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4091-68/art-3/par-3 When the Minister of Labour intends to give the authorization under the preceding paragraph, the Minister must in advance consult the Minister of Finance in the case of the specified-industry retirement allowance mutual aid rules, and the Minister of Finance and the Minister of International Trade and Industry in the case of the business rules. machine translation, not official **第四項** 第二項の規定により作成された特定業種退職金共済規程又は業務方法書は、機構の成立の時において、それぞれ、新法第六十七条第一項又は第六十八条第一項に規定する機構の特定業種退職金共済規程又は業務方法書となるものとする。 suppl-4091-68/art-3/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4091-68/art-3/par-4 The specified-industry retirement allowance mutual aid rules or the business rules prepared pursuant to paragraph (2) become, at the time of the establishment of the Organization, the Organization's specified-industry retirement allowance mutual aid rules prescribed in Article 67, paragraph (1) of the New Act or the Organization's business rules prescribed in Article 68, paragraph (1) of the New Act, respectively. machine translation, not official **第五項** 設立委員は、機構の設立の準備を完了したときは、遅滞なく、その旨を労働大臣に届け出るとともに、その事務を前条第一項の規定により指名された理事長となるべき者に引き継がなければならない。 suppl-4091-68/art-3/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4091-68/art-3/par-5 When the founding committee members have completed the preparations for the establishment of the Organization, they must without delay notify the Minister of Labour to that effect and hand over their affairs to the person designated pursuant to paragraph (1) of the preceding Article as the person who is to become the president. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-4091-68/art-3/par-1: 次項 → 中小企業退職金共済法 附則第三条第二項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 3, paragraph (2)), suppl-4091-68/art-3/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4091-68/art-3/par-2 - suppl-4091-68/art-3/par-2: 附則第六条第一項 → 中小企業退職金共済法 附則第六条第一項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 6, paragraph (1)), suppl-4091-68/art-6/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4091-68/art-6/par-1 - suppl-4091-68/art-3/par-3: 前項 → 中小企業退職金共済法 附則第三条第二項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 3, paragraph (2)), suppl-4091-68/art-3/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4091-68/art-3/par-2 - suppl-4091-68/art-3/par-4: 第二項 → 中小企業退職金共済法 附則第三条第二項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 3, paragraph (2)), suppl-4091-68/art-3/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4091-68/art-3/par-2 - suppl-4091-68/art-3/par-4: 新法第六十七条第一項 → 中小企業退職金共済法 第六十七条第一項 (Article 67, paragraph (1)), art-67/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-67/par-1 - suppl-4091-68/art-3/par-4: 第六十八条第一項 → 中小企業退職金共済法 第六十八条第一項 (Article 68, paragraph (1)), art-68/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-68/par-1 - suppl-4091-68/art-3/par-5: 前条第一項 → 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-4091-68/art-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4091-68/art-2/par-1 ## Cited by 5 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（施行期日） — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4091-68/art-1/par-1 - 中小企業退職金共済法 附則第三条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4091-68/art-3/par-1 - 中小企業退職金共済法 附則第三条第三項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4091-68/art-3/par-3 - 中小企業退職金共済法 附則第三条第四項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4091-68/art-3/par-4 - 中小企業退職金共済法 附則第四条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4091-68/art-4/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-20261106T173426-027, 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