# 中小企業退職金共済法 / Small and Medium Sized Enterprise Retirement Allowance Cooperative Act — 第一条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 1) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4271-17/art-1. 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: 第一条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 1)（施行期日） — address `suppl-4271-17/art-1` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4271-17/art-1 - 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. --- ### 第一条（施行期日） — Effective Date caption: machine translation, not official suppl-4271-17/art-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4271-17/art-1 **第一項** この法律は、平成二十八年四月一日から施行する。ただし、次の各号に掲げる規定は、当該各号に定める日から施行する。 suppl-4271-17/art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4271-17/art-1/par-1 This Act comes into effect on April 1, 2016; provided, however, that the provisions set forth in the following items come into effect on the dates specified in those items: machine translation, not official **一** 第五条の規定並びに附則第九条第二項及び第三項、第十七条第三項並びに第二十条の規定　公布の日 suppl-4271-17/art-1/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4271-17/art-1/par-1/item-1 The provisions of Article 5, and Article 9, paragraphs (2) and (3), Article 17, paragraph (3) and Article 20 of the Supplementary Provisions: the date of promulgation; machine translation, not official **二** 第一条中中小企業退職金共済法目次の改正規定（「・第三十一条」を「―第三十一条の二」に改める部分を除く。）、同法第六章中第五節を第六節とする改正規定、第七十五条の二第五項の改正規定、同章中第四節を第五節とし、第三節の次に一節を加える改正規定及び第八十八条の改正規定並びに第二条の規定（独立行政法人福祉医療機構法第五条第二項の改正規定を除く。）並びに附則第七条、第三十条及び第三十三条の規定　平成二十七年十月一日 suppl-4271-17/art-1/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4271-17/art-1/par-1/item-2 The provisions amending the table of contents of the Small and Medium Sized Enterprise Retirement Allowance Cooperative Act in Article 1 (excluding the part replacing ", Article 31" with " through Article 31-2"), the provisions making Section 5 into Section 6 in Chapter VI of that Act, the provisions amending Article 75-2, paragraph (5), the provisions making Section 4 into Section 5 in that Chapter and adding one Section after Section 3, and the provisions amending Article 88; the provisions of Article 2 (excluding the provisions amending Article 5, paragraph (2) of the Act on the Welfare and Medical Service Agency, Independent Administrative Agency); and the provisions of Articles 7, 30 and 33 of the Supplementary Provisions: October 1, 2015. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-4271-17/art-1/par-1/item-1: 第二十条 → 中小企業退職金共済法 附則第二十条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 20), suppl-4271-17/art-20 — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4271-17/art-20 --- ## 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-20261106T173426-018, translated 2026-11-07 - 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