# 中小企業退職金共済法 / Small and Medium Sized Enterprise Retirement Allowance Cooperative Act — 第三十一条 (Article 31) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-31. 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: 第三十一条 (Article 31)（退職金相当額の引渡し等） — address `art-31` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-31 - 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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第三十一条（退職金相当額の引渡し等） — Transfer, etc. of Amounts Equivalent to Retirement Allowances caption: machine translation, not official art-31 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-31 **第一項** 機構は、退職金共済事業を行う団体であつて厚生労働省令で定めるものとの間で、その退職につき退職金共済契約により退職金の支給を受けることができる者（当該退職をした者に限る。）が申し出たときはその者に係る退職金に相当する額を機構から当該団体に引き渡すことその他厚生労働省令で定める事項を約する契約を締結している場合において、当該退職をした者が退職後厚生労働省令で定める期間内に、当該退職金を請求しないで当該団体が行う退職金共済に関する制度に基づき退職金の支給を受けるべき者となり、かつ、厚生労働省令で定めるところにより申出をしたときは、当該団体との契約で定めるところによつて当該退職金共済契約による退職金に相当する額の範囲内の金額で厚生労働省令で定める金額を、当該団体に引き渡すものとする。 art-31/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-31/par-1 Where the Organization has concluded with a body that carries out a retirement allowance mutual aid business and is specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare a contract providing that, when a person who is able to receive payment of a retirement allowance under a retirement allowance mutual aid contract upon retirement (limited to a person who has retired) so applies, the amount equivalent to the retirement allowance for that person is to be transferred from the Organization to that body, and providing for other matters specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, and the person who has so retired, within the period specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare after retirement, without claiming that retirement allowance, has become a person who is to receive payment of a retirement allowance under the retirement allowance mutual aid system operated by that body and has made an application as provided by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, the Organization is to transfer to that body, as provided in the contract with that body, an amount specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare within the range of the amount equivalent to the retirement allowance under that retirement allowance mutual aid contract. machine translation, not official **第二項** 機構は、前項の規定により引き渡す金額が同項の退職金共済契約による退職金に相当する額に満たないときは、その差額を当該被共済者に支給するものとする。 art-31/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-31/par-2 Where the amount to be transferred pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph is less than the amount equivalent to the retirement allowance under the retirement allowance mutual aid contract referred to in that paragraph, the Organization is to pay the difference to that covered employee. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-31/par-2: 前項 → 中小企業退職金共済法 第三十一条第一項 (Article 31, paragraph (1)), art-31/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-31/par-1 ## Cited by 6 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 中小企業退職金共済法 第十八条第一項（掛金納付月数の通算） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-18/par-1 - 中小企業退職金共済法 第三十一条第二項（退職金相当額の引渡し等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-31/par-2 - 中小企業退職金共済法 第五十五条第一項第一号（被共済者が移動した場合の取扱い） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-55/par-1/item-1 - 住民基本台帳法 別表第一 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/residential-basic-book-act/appdx-1 (e-Gov law ID 342AC0000000081) - 所得税法施行令 第七十三条第一項第四号（特定退職金共済団体の要件） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/income-tax-act-enforcement-order/art-73/par-1/item-4 (e-Gov law ID 340CO0000000096) - 所得税法施行令 第七十三条第一項第八号ロ（特定退職金共済団体の要件） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/income-tax-act-enforcement-order/art-73/par-1/item-8/sub-2 (e-Gov law ID 340CO0000000096) --- ## 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-20261106T173426-006, 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