# 中小企業退職金共済法 / Small and Medium Sized Enterprise Retirement Allowance Cooperative Act — 第八条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 8)

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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: 第八条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 8) — address `suppl-3561-38/art-8`
- Text in force since: 2025-06-01
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### 第八条
<sup>suppl-3561-38/art-8 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-3561-38/art-8</sup>

**第一項**  旧組合の解散の際現にその職員として在職する者で引き続き新組合の職員となつたものについては、新組合が国家公務員等退職手当法（昭和二十八年法律第百八十二号）第七条の二第一項に規定する公庫等に該当する場合に限り、国家公務員等退職手当法の一部を改正する法律（昭和四十八年法律第三十号）附則第九項中「在職した後」とあるのは「在職し、引き続き中小企業退職金共済法の一部を改正する法律（昭和五十六年法律第三十八号）による改正後の中小企業退職金共済法第五章第二節の特定業種退職金共済組合において使用される者として在職した後」と、同法附則第十二項中「附則第九項に規定する者」とあるのは「中小企業退職金共済法の一部を改正する法律附則第八条の規定により読み替えて適用される附則第九項に規定する者」と読み替えて、これらの規定を適用する。
<sup>suppl-3561-38/art-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-3561-38/art-8/par-1</sup>
With regard to a person who is serving as staff of the former Association at the time of its dissolution and has continued on to become staff of the new Association, only where the new Association falls under the public corporations, etc. prescribed in Article 7-2, paragraph (1) of the Act on National Public Officers' Retirement Allowance, etc. (Act No. 182 of 1953), these provisions apply with the phrase "after having been in service" in paragraph (9) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the Act on National Public Officers' Retirement Allowance, etc. (Act No. 30 of 1973) deemed to be replaced with "after having been in service and having continued in service as a person employed by the specified-industry retirement allowance mutual aid association under Chapter V, Section 2 of the Small and Medium Sized Enterprise Retirement Allowance Cooperative Act as amended by the Act Partially Amending the Small and Medium Sized Enterprise Retirement Allowance Cooperative Act (Act No. 38 of 1981)", and the phrase "a person prescribed in paragraph (9) of the Supplementary Provisions" in paragraph (12) of the Supplementary Provisions of that Act (Act No. 30 of 1973) deemed to be replaced with "a person prescribed in paragraph (9) of the Supplementary Provisions as applied with replacement of terms pursuant to Article 8 of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the Small and Medium Sized Enterprise Retirement Allowance Cooperative Act".
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- suppl-3561-38/art-8/par-1: 新組合が国家公務員等退職手当法（昭和二十八年法律第百八十二号）第七条の二第一項 → e-Gov law 328AC1000000182, 第七条の二第一項 (Article 7-2, paragraph (1)), art-7-2/par-1 — not held in this collection

## 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（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 附則第十二条第一項（政令への委任） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-3561-38/art-12/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, 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
