# 中小企業退職金共済法 / Small and Medium Sized Enterprise Retirement Allowance Cooperative Act — 第七条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 7)

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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: 第七条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 7) — address `suppl-4141-164/art-7`
- Text in force since: 2025-06-01
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### 第七条
<sup>suppl-4141-164/art-7 · https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4141-164/art-7</sup>

**第一項**  この法律の施行の際現に平成十四年改正法附則第十一条第一項の規定に基づき旧機構が同項の認可を受けて金融機関に対して行っている平成十四年改正法附則第十条に規定する業務の一部の委託については、新機構が前条第一項の規定に基づき金融機関に対して行っている委託とみなす。
<sup>suppl-4141-164/art-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4141-164/art-7/par-1</sup>
With respect to the entrustment to a financial institution of part of the operations prescribed in Article 10 of the Supplementary Provisions of the 2002 Amendment Act that the former Organization, pursuant to Article 11, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 2002 Amendment Act and with the authorization referred to in that paragraph, is actually carrying out at the time this Act comes into effect, it is deemed to be an entrustment that the new Organization is carrying out in relation to a financial institution pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) of the preceding Article.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- suppl-4141-164/art-7/par-1: 平成十四年改正法附則第十一条第一項 → 中小企業退職金共済法 附則第十一条第一項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 11, paragraph (1)), suppl-4141-39/art-11/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4141-39/art-11/par-1
- suppl-4141-164/art-7/par-1: 平成十四年改正法附則第十条 → 中小企業退職金共済法 附則第十条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 10), suppl-4141-39/art-10 — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4141-39/art-10
- suppl-4141-164/art-7/par-1: 前条第一項 → 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-4141-164/art-6/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4141-164/art-6/par-1

## Cited by

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

- 中小企業退職金共済法 附則第六条第三項（新機構の業務の委託等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4141-164/art-6/par-3
- 中小企業退職金共済法 附則第八条第一項（報告及び検査） — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4141-164/art-8/par-1
- 中小企業退職金共済法 附則第十六条第一項（政令への委任） — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4141-164/art-16/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, corrected on review by claude-opus-5-5 — Machine translation corrected on review, batch sme-retirement-allowance-act-20261106T173426-033, 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
