# 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-4271-17/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)（特定業種に係る退職金の支給に関する経過措置） — address `suppl-4271-17/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-4271-17/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（特定業種に係る退職金の支給に関する経過措置） — Transitional Measures Concerning Payment of Retirement Allowances for the Specified Industry caption: machine translation, not official suppl-4271-17/art-5 · https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4271-17/art-5 **第一項** 新中退法第四十三条第一項ただし書、第四十六条第二項及び第五十五条第二項の規定は、施行日以後に支給事由が生じた者に係る退職金の支給について適用し、施行日前に支給事由が生じた者に係る退職金の支給については、なお従前の例による。 suppl-4271-17/art-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4271-17/art-5/par-1 The provisions of the proviso to Article 43, paragraph (1), Article 46, paragraph (2) and Article 55, paragraph (2) of the New SME Retirement Allowance Act apply to the payment of retirement allowances pertaining to a person for whom the grounds for payment arise on or after the Effective Date, and the provisions then in force continue to govern the payment of retirement allowances pertaining to a person for whom the grounds for payment arose before the Effective Date. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-4271-17/art-5/par-1: 新中退法第四十三条第一項 → 中小企業退職金共済法 第四十三条第一項 (Article 43, paragraph (1)), art-43/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-43/par-1 - suppl-4271-17/art-5/par-1: 第四十六条第二項 → 中小企業退職金共済法 第四十六条第二項 (Article 46, paragraph (2)), art-46/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-46/par-2 - suppl-4271-17/art-5/par-1: 第五十五条第二項 → 中小企業退職金共済法 第五十五条第二項 (Article 55, paragraph (2)), art-55/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-55/par-2 --- ## 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-20261106T173426-019, 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