# 中小企業退職金共済法 / Small and Medium Sized Enterprise Retirement Allowance Cooperative Act — 第十五条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 15)

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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: 第十五条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 15) — address `suppl-4101-46/art-15`
- Text in force since: 2025-06-01
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### 第十五条
<sup>suppl-4101-46/art-15 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4101-46/art-15</sup>

**第一項**  前条の規定に該当する被共済者であって、その者について勤労者退職金共済機構が新法第二十一条の五第一項の受入れをしたものが退職したときにおける退職金の額及び当該被共済者に係る退職金共済契約が解除されたときにおける解約手当金の額は、同条第二項第二号の規定（同条第三項においてその例によることとされる場合を含む。）にかかわらず、前条の規定により算定した額に新法第二十一条の五第二項第二号イに規定する計算後受入金額を加算した額とする。
<sup>suppl-4101-46/art-15/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4101-46/art-15/par-1</sup>
In the case of a covered employee falling under the provisions of the preceding Article for whom the Workers' Retirement Allowance Mutual Aid Organization has made the acceptance under Article 21-5, paragraph (1) of the New Act, the amount of the retirement allowance when that covered employee retires, and the amount of the cancellation refund when the retirement allowance mutual aid contract relating to that covered employee is cancelled, are, notwithstanding the provisions of Article 21-5, paragraph (2), item (ii) of the New Act (including the case where it is to be followed pursuant to Article 21-5, paragraph (3) of the New Act), the amount obtained by adding the accepted amount after interest calculation prescribed in Article 21-5, paragraph (2), item (ii), (a) of the New Act to the amount calculated pursuant to the provisions of the preceding Article.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- suppl-4101-46/art-15/par-1: 前条 → 中小企業退職金共済法 附則第十四条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 14), suppl-4101-46/art-14 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4101-46/art-14

## Cited by

2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction.

- 中小企業退職金共済法 附則第十六条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4101-46/art-16/par-1
- 中小企業退職金共済法 附則第十八条第一項（政令への委任） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4101-46/art-18/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-20261106T173426-030, 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
