# 中小企業退職金共済法 / Small and Medium Sized Enterprise Retirement Allowance Cooperative Act — 第十六条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 16)

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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: 第十六条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 16)（政令への委任） — address `suppl-4141-164/art-16`
- Text in force since: 2025-06-01
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### 第十六条（政令への委任） — Delegation to Cabinet Order
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>suppl-4141-164/art-16 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4141-164/art-16</sup>

**第一項**  附則第二条から前条までに定めるもののほか、新機構の設立に伴い必要な経過措置その他この法律の施行に関し必要な経過措置は、政令で定める。
<sup>suppl-4141-164/art-16/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4141-164/art-16/par-1</sup>
In addition to what is provided for in Article 2 through the preceding Article of the Supplementary Provisions, transitional measures necessary in connection with the establishment of the new Organization and other transitional measures necessary for the enforcement of this Act are specified by Cabinet Order.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- suppl-4141-164/art-16/par-1: 附則第二条から前条まで → 中小企業退職金共済法 附則第十条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 10), suppl-4141-164/art-10 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4141-164/art-10
- suppl-4141-164/art-16/par-1: 附則第二条から前条まで → 中小企業退職金共済法 附則第十一条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 11), suppl-4141-164/art-11 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4141-164/art-11
- suppl-4141-164/art-16/par-1: 附則第二条から前条まで → 中小企業退職金共済法 附則第十二条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 12), suppl-4141-164/art-12 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4141-164/art-12
- suppl-4141-164/art-16/par-1: 附則第二条から前条まで → 中小企業退職金共済法 附則第十三条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 13), suppl-4141-164/art-13 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4141-164/art-13
- suppl-4141-164/art-16/par-1: 附則第二条から前条まで → 中小企業退職金共済法 附則第十四条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 14), suppl-4141-164/art-14 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4141-164/art-14
- suppl-4141-164/art-16/par-1: 附則第二条から前条まで → 中小企業退職金共済法 附則第十五条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 15), suppl-4141-164/art-15 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4141-164/art-15
- suppl-4141-164/art-16/par-1: 附則第二条から前条まで → 中小企業退職金共済法 附則第二条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 2), suppl-4141-164/art-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4141-164/art-2
- suppl-4141-164/art-16/par-1: 附則第二条から前条まで → 中小企業退職金共済法 附則第三条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 3), suppl-4141-164/art-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4141-164/art-3
- suppl-4141-164/art-16/par-1: 附則第二条から前条まで → 中小企業退職金共済法 附則第四条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 4), suppl-4141-164/art-4 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4141-164/art-4
- suppl-4141-164/art-16/par-1: 附則第二条から前条まで → 中小企業退職金共済法 附則第五条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 5), suppl-4141-164/art-5 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4141-164/art-5
- suppl-4141-164/art-16/par-1: 附則第二条から前条まで → 中小企業退職金共済法 附則第六条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 6), suppl-4141-164/art-6 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4141-164/art-6
- suppl-4141-164/art-16/par-1: 附則第二条から前条まで → 中小企業退職金共済法 附則第七条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 7), suppl-4141-164/art-7 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4141-164/art-7
- suppl-4141-164/art-16/par-1: 附則第二条から前条まで → 中小企業退職金共済法 附則第八条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 8), suppl-4141-164/art-8 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4141-164/art-8
- suppl-4141-164/art-16/par-1: 附則第二条から前条まで → 中小企業退職金共済法 附則第九条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 9), suppl-4141-164/art-9 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4141-164/art-9

## Cited by

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

- 中小企業退職金共済法 附則第一条第一項（施行期日） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4141-164/art-1/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, corrected on review by claude-opus-5-5 — Machine translation corrected on review, batch sme-retirement-allowance-act-20261106T173426-033, 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
