# 中小企業退職金共済法 / Small and Medium Sized Enterprise Retirement Allowance Cooperative Act — 第八条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 8) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4141-39/art-8. 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: 第八条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 8) — address `suppl-4141-39/art-8` - 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-8 - 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. --- ### 第八条 suppl-4141-39/art-8 · https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4141-39/art-8 **第一項** 施行日以後に効力を生じた退職金共済契約について施行日前退職金共済契約に係る掛金納付月数（新法第十条第一項に規定する掛金納付月数をいう。）を新法第十四条の規定により通算する被共済者が退職したときにおける退職金の額及び当該被共済者に係る退職金共済契約が解除されたときにおける解約手当金の額に関し必要な経過措置は、政令で定める。 suppl-4141-39/art-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4141-39/art-8/par-1 Necessary transitional measures regarding the amount of a retirement allowance when a covered employee, for whom the number of months of paid premiums under a pre-effective-date retirement allowance mutual aid contract (meaning the number of months of paid premiums prescribed in Article 10, paragraph (1) of the New Act) is added up pursuant to Article 14 of the New Act in respect of a retirement allowance mutual aid contract that took effect on or after the Effective Date, retires, and regarding the amount of a cancellation refund when the retirement allowance mutual aid contract pertaining to that covered employee is cancelled, are specified by Cabinet Order. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-4141-39/art-8/par-1: 新法第十条第一項 → 中小企業退職金共済法 第十条第一項 (Article 10, paragraph (1)), art-10/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-10/par-1 - suppl-4141-39/art-8/par-1: 新法第十四条 → 中小企業退職金共済法 第十四条 (Article 14), art-14 — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-14 ## 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