# 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)

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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: 第二条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 2)（新組合の設立） — address `suppl-3561-38/art-2`
- Text in force since: 2025-06-01
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### 第二条（新組合の設立） — Establishment of the new Association
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<sup>suppl-3561-38/art-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-3561-38/art-2</sup>

**第一項**  労働大臣は、改正後の中小企業退職金共済法（以下「新法」という。）第五章第二節の特定業種退職金共済組合（以下「新組合」という。）の理事長又は監事となるべき者を指名する。
<sup>suppl-3561-38/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-3561-38/art-2/par-1</sup>
The Minister of Labour designates the persons who are to become the president or an auditor of the specified-industry retirement allowance mutual aid association (hereinafter referred to as the "new Association") under Chapter V, Section 2 of the Small and Medium Sized Enterprise Retirement Allowance Cooperative Act as amended (hereinafter referred to as the "New Act").
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**第二項**  前項の規定により指名された理事長又は監事となるべき者は、新組合の成立の時において、新法第七十一条第六項の規定により、それぞれ理事長又は監事に任命されたものとする。
<sup>suppl-3561-38/art-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-3561-38/art-2/par-2</sup>
Persons designated pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph as persons who are to become the president or an auditor are deemed to have been appointed as the president or an auditor, respectively, at the time of the establishment of the new Association, pursuant to Article 71, paragraph (6) of the New Act.
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## Cites
- suppl-3561-38/art-2/par-2: 前項 → 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-3561-38/art-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-3561-38/art-2/par-1

## Cited by

4 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（施行期日） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-3561-38/art-1/par-1
- 中小企業退職金共済法 附則第二条第二項（新組合の設立） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-3561-38/art-2/par-2
- 中小企業退職金共済法 附則第三条第四項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-3561-38/art-3/par-4
- 中小企業退職金共済法 附則第四条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-3561-38/art-4/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-20261106T173426-020, translated 2026-11-07
- claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch sme-retirement-allowance-act-20261106T173426-021, translated 2026-11-07
- claude-sonnet-5-5, corrected on review by claude-opus-5-5 — Machine translation corrected on review, batch sme-retirement-allowance-act-20261106T173426-021, 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
