# 中小企業退職金共済法 / Small and Medium Sized Enterprise Retirement Allowance Cooperative Act — 第五条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 5) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4141-39/art-5. 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: 第五条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 5) — address `suppl-4141-39/art-5` - 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-5 - 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. --- ### 第五条 suppl-4141-39/art-5 · https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4141-39/art-5 **第一項** 新法第十条の三第五項の規定は、施行日前に退職した被共済者であって厚生労働省令で定める日までの間に退職金を分割払の方法により支給することを請求したもの（以下この条において「特定退職者」という。）以外のものについて適用し、特定退職者に係る同条第五項の分割支給率については、なお従前の例による。 suppl-4141-39/art-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4141-39/art-5/par-1 The provisions of Article 10-3, paragraph (5) of the New Act apply to covered employees other than those who retired before the Effective Date and who, by the date specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, requested payment of the retirement allowance by installment payment (hereinafter referred to as "specified retirees" in this Article), and the provisions then in force continue to govern the installment payment rate under paragraph (5) of that Article for specified retirees. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-4141-39/art-5/par-1: この条 → 中小企業退職金共済法 附則第五条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 5), suppl-4141-39/art-5 — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4141-39/art-5 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 中小企業退職金共済法 附則第五条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4141-39/art-5/par-1 - 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