# 中小企業退職金共済法 / Small and Medium Sized Enterprise Retirement Allowance Cooperative Act — 第七条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 7) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4281-66/art-7. 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: 第七条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 7)（中小企業退職金共済法の一部改正に伴う経過措置） — address `suppl-4281-66/art-7` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4281-66/art-7 - 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. --- ### 第七条（中小企業退職金共済法の一部改正に伴う経過措置） — Transitional Measures Accompanying the Partial Amendment of the Small and Medium Sized Enterprise Retirement Allowance Cooperative Act caption: machine translation, not official suppl-4281-66/art-7 · https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4281-66/art-7 **第一項** 第五条の規定による改正後の中小企業退職金共済法第三十一条の四の規定は、第四号施行日以後に行われる同条第一項に規定する合併等について適用する。 suppl-4281-66/art-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4281-66/art-7/par-1 The provisions of Article 31-4 of the Small and Medium Sized Enterprise Retirement Allowance Cooperative Act as amended by the provisions of Article 5 apply to a merger, etc. prescribed in paragraph (1) of that Article that takes place on or after the Item (iv) Effective Date. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-4281-66/art-7/par-1: 中小企業退職金共済法第三十一条の四 → 中小企業退職金共済法 第三十一条の四 (Article 31-4), art-31-4 — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-31-4 - suppl-4281-66/art-7/par-1: 同条第一項 → 中小企業退職金共済法 第三十一条の四第一項 (Article 31-4, paragraph (1)), art-31-4/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-31-4/par-1 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 中小企業退職金共済法 附則第一条第一項第四号（施行期日） — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4281-66/art-1/par-1/item-4 - 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-4281-66/art-10/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-20261106T173426-030, translated 2026-11-07 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch sme-retirement-allowance-act-20261106T173426-036, 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