# 中小企業退職金共済法 / Small and Medium Sized Enterprise Retirement Allowance Cooperative Act — 第二条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 2) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4101-46/art-2. 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: 第二条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 2)（申込金に関する経過措置） — address `suppl-4101-46/art-2` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4101-46/art-2 - 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). English: as marked on each line below. Only the Japanese as published by the government has legal effect; the text below is a copy of it. Every English rendering below is a translation and says which kind: the Ministry of Justice's translation, or this site's machine translation, whose model and date the Sources list names. They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第二条（申込金に関する経過措置） — Transitional Measures concerning Application Money caption: machine translation, not official suppl-4101-46/art-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4101-46/art-2 **第一項** この法律の施行の日（以下「施行日」という。）前に行われた退職金共済契約の申込みに係る申込金については、なお従前の例による。 suppl-4101-46/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4101-46/art-2/par-1 With respect to application money relating to an application for a retirement allowance mutual aid contract made before the date on which this Act comes into effect (hereinafter referred to as the "Effective Date"), the provisions then in force continue to govern. machine translation, not official ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 中小企業退職金共済法 附則第十七条第一項（時効に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4101-46/art-17/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-4101-46/art-18/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-20261106T173426-028, 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