# 中小企業退職金共済法 / Small and Medium Sized Enterprise Retirement Allowance Cooperative Act — 第六条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 6)

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- 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
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- Provision: 第六条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 6)（特例被共済者に係る退職金等に関する経過措置） — address `suppl-3551-45/art-6`
- Text in force since: 2025-06-01
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### 第六条（特例被共済者に係る退職金等に関する経過措置） — Transitional Measures Concerning Retirement Allowances, etc. for Special-Case Covered Employees
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>suppl-3551-45/art-6 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-3551-45/art-6</sup>

**第一項**  施行日前の掛金月額の最高額が千二百円未満である退職金共済契約であつて、掛金月額が施行日以後に当該最高額を超える額に増加されたもの（附則第二条第四項の規定により同条第一項本文に規定する期間の満了の時又は同条第五項の規定により同条第二項に規定する労働省令で定める日までの期間の満了の時に、掛金月額が千二百円に増加されたものとみなされたものを含む。）の被共済者に係る退職金又は解約手当金の額を附則第四条第一項の規定により算定する場合並びに前条第一項の規定により読み替えて適用する新法第二十一条の四第二項第二号及び第三項第二号並びに附則第四条第一項の規定により算定する場合（新法第十条第一項に規定する掛金納付月数が二十四月以上であり、かつ、当該増加後の掛金月額による掛金の納付があつた月数が二十四月未満である場合に限る。）において、当該最高額を超え千二百円以下の掛金月額について附則第四条第一項第一号及び前条第一項の規定により読み替えて適用する同号の計算をするときは、同号イ中「第二欄に定める金額の十二分の一の金額」とあり、及び「第三欄に定める金額」とあるのは、「第四欄に定める金額」とする。
<sup>suppl-3551-45/art-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-3551-45/art-6/par-1</sup>
Where the amount of a retirement allowance or cancellation refund for a covered employee under a retirement allowance mutual aid contract whose highest monthly premium before the Effective Date is less than 1,200 yen and whose monthly premium has been increased on or after the Effective Date to an amount exceeding that highest amount (including one whose monthly premium is deemed to have been increased to 1,200 yen at the time of expiry of the period prescribed in the main clause of Article 2, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions pursuant to Article 2, paragraph (4) of the Supplementary Provisions, or at the time of expiry of the period up to the date specified by Order of the Ministry of Labour prescribed in paragraph (2) of that Article pursuant to paragraph (5) of that Article) is calculated under Article 4, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions, and where it is calculated under Article 21-4, paragraph (2), item (ii) and paragraph (3), item (ii) of the New Act as applied with replacement of terms pursuant to paragraph (1) of the preceding Article and under Article 4, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions (limited to the case where the number of months of paid premiums prescribed in Article 10, paragraph (1) of the New Act is 24 or more and the number of months for which premiums were paid at the monthly premium after that increase is less than 24), when the calculation under Article 4, paragraph (1), item (i) of the Supplementary Provisions and under that item as applied with replacement of terms pursuant to paragraph (1) of the preceding Article is made for a monthly premium exceeding that highest amount and 1,200 yen or less, the phrases "one twelfth of the amount specified in the second column" and "the amount specified in the third column" in (a) of that item are deemed to be replaced with "the amount specified in the fourth column".
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## Cites
- suppl-3551-45/art-6/par-1: 附則第二条第四項 → 中小企業退職金共済法 附則第二条第四項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 2, paragraph (4)), suppl-3551-45/art-2/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-3551-45/art-2/par-4
- suppl-3551-45/art-6/par-1: 同条第一項 → 中小企業退職金共済法 附則第二条第一項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 2, paragraph (1)), suppl-3551-45/art-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-3551-45/art-2/par-1
- suppl-3551-45/art-6/par-1: 同条第五項 → 中小企業退職金共済法 附則第二条第五項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 2, paragraph (5)), suppl-3551-45/art-2/par-5 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-3551-45/art-2/par-5
- suppl-3551-45/art-6/par-1: 同条第二項 → 中小企業退職金共済法 附則第二条第二項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 2, paragraph (2)), suppl-3551-45/art-2/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-3551-45/art-2/par-2
- suppl-3551-45/art-6/par-1: 附則第四条第一項 → 中小企業退職金共済法 附則第四条第一項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 4, paragraph (1)), suppl-3551-45/art-4/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-3551-45/art-4/par-1
- suppl-3551-45/art-6/par-1: 前条第一項 → 中小企業退職金共済法 附則第五条第一項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 5, paragraph (1)), suppl-3551-45/art-5/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-3551-45/art-5/par-1
- suppl-3551-45/art-6/par-1: 新法第十条第一項 → 中小企業退職金共済法 第十条第一項 (Article 10, paragraph (1)), art-10/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-10/par-1
- suppl-3551-45/art-6/par-1: 附則第四条第一項第一号 → 中小企業退職金共済法 附則第四条第一項第一号 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 4, paragraph (1), item (i)), suppl-3551-45/art-4/par-1/item-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-3551-45/art-4/par-1/item-1

## Cited by

1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction.

- 中小企業退職金共済法 附則第九条第一項（政令への委任） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-3551-45/art-9/par-1

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## 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-20261106T173426-020, 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
