# 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) — address `suppl-3611-37/art-6`
- Text in force since: 2025-06-01
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### 第六条
<sup>suppl-3611-37/art-6 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-3611-37/art-6</sup>

**第一項**  新法第十八条の二第一項の規定に基づき掛金の減額の措置が講ぜられる月について、共済契約者が同項の規定に基づき減額された額により掛金を納付した場合には、前二条の規定の適用については、新法第十八条第一項の掛金月額により掛金の納付があつたものとみなす。
<sup>suppl-3611-37/art-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-3611-37/art-6/par-1</sup>
In the case where, for a month in which a measure to reduce premiums is taken pursuant to Article 18-2, paragraph (1) of the New Act, a mutual aid policyholder pays premiums in the amount reduced pursuant to that paragraph, premiums are deemed, for the purposes of the application of the preceding two Articles, to have been paid at the monthly premium under Article 18, paragraph (1) of the New Act.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- suppl-3611-37/art-6/par-1: 前二条 → 中小企業退職金共済法 附則第四条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 4), suppl-3611-37/art-4 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-3611-37/art-4
- suppl-3611-37/art-6/par-1: 前二条 → 中小企業退職金共済法 附則第五条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 5), suppl-3611-37/art-5 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-3611-37/art-5
- suppl-3611-37/art-6/par-1: 新法第十八条第一項 → 中小企業退職金共済法 第十八条第一項 (Article 18, paragraph (1)), art-18/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-18/par-1

## Cited by

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

- 中小企業退職金共済法 附則第十条第一項（政令への委任） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-3611-37/art-10/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-20261106T173426-022, 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
