# 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)

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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: 第五条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 5)（経過措置の原則） — address `suppl-4261-69/art-5`
- Text in force since: 2025-06-01
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### 第五条（経過措置の原則） — Principles of Transitional Measures
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>suppl-4261-69/art-5 · https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4261-69/art-5</sup>

**第一項**  行政庁の処分その他の行為又は不作為についての不服申立てであってこの法律の施行前にされた行政庁の処分その他の行為又はこの法律の施行前にされた申請に係る行政庁の不作為に係るものについては、この附則に特別の定めがある場合を除き、なお従前の例による。
<sup>suppl-4261-69/art-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4261-69/art-5/par-1</sup>
Unless otherwise specially provided for in these Supplementary Provisions, the provisions then in force continue to govern an appeal against a disposition or other act or an inaction of an administrative agency that concerns a disposition or other act of an administrative agency made before this Act comes into effect or an inaction of an administrative agency relating to an application filed before this Act comes into effect.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

## Cited by

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

- 中小企業退職金共済法 附則第六条第二項（訴訟に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4261-69/art-6/par-2
- 中小企業退職金共済法 附則第九条第一項（罰則に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4261-69/art-9/par-1
- 中小企業退職金共済法 附則第十条第一項（その他の経過措置の政令への委任） — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4261-69/art-10/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 — Machine translation, batch sme-retirement-allowance-act-20261106T173426-035, 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
