# 中小企業退職金共済法 / Small and Medium Sized Enterprise Retirement Allowance Cooperative Act — 第四条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 4) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4141-39/art-4. 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: 第四条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 4) — address `suppl-4141-39/art-4` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4141-39/art-4 - 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. --- ### 第四条 suppl-4141-39/art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4141-39/art-4 **第一項** 改正後の中小企業退職金共済法（以下「新法」という。）第十条第二項第三号ロの支給率に関し必要な経過措置は、政令で定める。 suppl-4141-39/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4141-39/art-4/par-1 Necessary transitional measures regarding the payment rate in Article 10, paragraph (2), item (iii), (b) of the Small and Medium Sized Enterprise Retirement Allowance Cooperative Act as amended (hereinafter referred to as the "New Act") are specified by Cabinet Order. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-4141-39/art-4/par-1: 第十条第二項第三号 → 中小企業退職金共済法 第十条第二項第三号 (Article 10, paragraph (2), item (iii)), art-10/par-2/item-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-10/par-2/item-3 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 中小企業退職金共済法 附則第十五条第一項（政令への委任） — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4141-39/art-15/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-20261106T173426-031, 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