# 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-4091-68/art-9`
- Text in force since: 2025-06-01
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### 第九条
<sup>suppl-4091-68/art-9 · https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4091-68/art-9</sup>

**第一項**  機構の最初の事業年度の事業計画及び予算については、新法第七十二条中「当該事業年度の開始前に」とあるのは、「機構の成立後遅滞なく」とする。
<sup>suppl-4091-68/art-9/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4091-68/art-9/par-1</sup>
With respect to the business plan and budget for the first business year of the Organization, the phrase "before the start of the business year in question" in Article 72 of the New Act is deemed to be replaced with "without delay after the establishment of the Organization".
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- suppl-4091-68/art-9/par-1: 新法第七十二条 → 中小企業退職金共済法 第七十二条 (Article 72), art-72 — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-72

## Cited by

2 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
- 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
