# 中小企業退職金共済法 / Small and Medium Sized Enterprise Retirement Allowance Cooperative Act — 第二条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 2) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4271-17/art-2. 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: 第二条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 2)（解約手当金に相当する額の引渡しに関する経過措置） — address `suppl-4271-17/art-2` - 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-2 - e-Gov law ID: 334AC0000000160 — never renamed. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第二条（解約手当金に相当する額の引渡しに関する経過措置） — Transitional Measures Concerning the Handing Over of an Amount Equivalent to a Cancellation Refund caption: machine translation, not official suppl-4271-17/art-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4271-17/art-2 **第一項** 第一条の規定による改正後の中小企業退職金共済法（以下「新中退法」という。）第十七条の規定は、この法律の施行の日（以下「施行日」という。）以後に新中退法第八条第二項第二号の規定により退職金共済契約（新中退法第二条第三項に規定する退職金共済契約をいう。附則第四条において同じ。）が解除された場合に適用し、施行日前に第一条の規定による改正前の中小企業退職金共済法（以下この条及び附則第六条において「旧中退法」という。）第八条第二項第二号の規定により退職金共済契約（旧中退法第二条第三項に規定する退職金共済契約をいう。）が解除された場合については、なお従前の例による。 suppl-4271-17/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4271-17/art-2/par-1 The provisions of Article 17 of the Small and Medium Sized Enterprise Retirement Allowance Cooperative Act as amended by the provisions of Article 1 (hereinafter referred to as the "New SME Retirement Allowance Act") apply to the case where a retirement allowance mutual aid contract (meaning a retirement allowance mutual aid contract prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (3) of the New SME Retirement Allowance Act; the same applies in Article 4 of the Supplementary Provisions) is cancelled pursuant to the provisions of Article 8, paragraph (2), item (ii) of the New SME Retirement Allowance Act on or after the day this Act comes into effect (hereinafter referred to as the "Effective Date"), and the provisions then in force continue to govern the case where, before the Effective Date, a retirement allowance mutual aid contract (meaning a retirement allowance mutual aid contract prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (3) of the Small and Medium Sized Enterprise Retirement Allowance Cooperative Act before the amendment by the provisions of Article 1 (hereinafter referred to as the "Former SME Retirement Allowance Act" in this Article and Article 6 of the Supplementary Provisions)) is cancelled pursuant to the provisions of Article 8, paragraph (2), item (ii) of the Former SME Retirement Allowance Act. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-4271-17/art-2/par-1: 第十七条 → 中小企業退職金共済法 第十七条 (Article 17), art-17 — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-17 - suppl-4271-17/art-2/par-1: 新中退法第八条第二項第二号 → 中小企業退職金共済法 第八条第二項第二号 (Article 8, paragraph (2), item (ii)), art-8/par-2/item-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-8/par-2/item-2 - suppl-4271-17/art-2/par-1: 新中退法第二条第三項 → 中小企業退職金共済法 第二条第三項 (Article 2, paragraph (3)), art-2/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-2/par-3 - suppl-4271-17/art-2/par-1: 附則第四条 → 中小企業退職金共済法 附則第四条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 4), suppl-4271-17/art-4 — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4271-17/art-4 - suppl-4271-17/art-2/par-1: この条 → 中小企業退職金共済法 附則第二条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 2), suppl-4271-17/art-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4271-17/art-2 - suppl-4271-17/art-2/par-1: 附則第六条 → 中小企業退職金共済法 附則第六条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 6), suppl-4271-17/art-6 — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4271-17/art-6 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 中小企業退職金共済法 附則第二条第一項（解約手当金に相当する額の引渡しに関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4271-17/art-2/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-20261106T173426-035, 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