# 中小企業退職金共済法 / Small and Medium Sized Enterprise Retirement Allowance Cooperative Act — 第十七条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 17) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4101-46/art-17. Every law, and how to address a provision: https://japanlaw.org/llms.txt. The same laws as MCP tools (no sign-in): https://japanlaw.org/mcp. - 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 - Kind: Act — the distinction between 法律 (Act), 政令 (Cabinet Order), 省令 (Ministerial Order) and 条例 (local ordinance) decides who may issue it and what it may say. - Provision: 第十七条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 17)（時効に関する経過措置） — address `suppl-4101-46/art-17` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4101-46/art-17 - e-Gov law ID: 334AC0000000160 — never renamed. A permanent link, `/l/{lawId}/{address}` on this site, redirects to the page. - Every provision below carries its address and its URL on the line under it. - Japanese text: e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁). English: as marked on each line below. Only the Japanese as published by the government has legal effect; the text below is a copy of it. Every English rendering below is a translation and says which kind: the Ministry of Justice's translation, or this site's machine translation, whose model and date the Sources list names. They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第十七条（時効に関する経過措置） — Transitional Measures Concerning Prescription caption: machine translation, not official suppl-4101-46/art-17 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4101-46/art-17 **第一項** 施行日前に生じた申込金の返還を受ける権利及び附則第二条の規定によりなお従前の例によることとされる場合における施行日以後に生じた申込金の返還を受ける権利の消滅時効については、なお従前の例による。 suppl-4101-46/art-17/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4101-46/art-17/par-1 The provisions then in force continue to govern the extinctive prescription of the right to receive a refund of application money that arose before the Effective Date, and of the right to receive a refund of application money that arose on or after the Effective Date in the case where the provisions then in force are to continue to govern pursuant to the provisions of Article 2 of the Supplementary Provisions. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-4101-46/art-17/par-1: 附則第二条 → 中小企業退職金共済法 附則第二条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 2), suppl-4101-46/art-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4101-46/art-2 ## 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 --- ## 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