# 中小企業退職金共済法 / Small and Medium Sized Enterprise Retirement Allowance Cooperative Act — 第三条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 3) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4141-164/art-3. 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: 第三条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 3)（財務の健全性の確保） — address `suppl-4141-164/art-3` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4141-164/art-3 - 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. --- ### 第三条（財務の健全性の確保） — Ensuring Financial Soundness caption: machine translation, not official suppl-4141-164/art-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4141-164/art-3 **第一項** 新機構にその業務を確実に実施させるため、新法第十条第二項第一号、第二号及び第三号イの政令を定める場合においては、当分の間、同条第三項に規定する事項のほか、退職金共済契約に係る中小企業退職金共済事業の財務の健全性の確保について十分な考慮をするものとする。 suppl-4141-164/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4141-164/art-3/par-1 In order to have the new Organization carry out its operations reliably, when establishing the Cabinet Order referred to in Article 10, paragraph (2), items (i) and (ii) and item (iii), (a) of the New Act, full consideration is, for the time being, to be given, in addition to the matters prescribed in paragraph (3) of that Article, to ensuring the financial soundness of the retirement allowance mutual aid business for small and medium-sized enterprises relating to retirement allowance mutual aid contracts. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-4141-164/art-3/par-1: 新法第十条第二項第一号 → 中小企業退職金共済法 第十条第二項第一号 (Article 10, paragraph (2), item (i)), art-10/par-2/item-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-10/par-2/item-1 - suppl-4141-164/art-3/par-1: 第二号 → 中小企業退職金共済法 第十条第二項第二号 (Article 10, paragraph (2), item (ii)), art-10/par-2/item-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-10/par-2/item-2 - suppl-4141-164/art-3/par-1: 第三号 → 中小企業退職金共済法 第十条第二項第三号 (Article 10, paragraph (2), item (iii)), art-10/par-2/item-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-10/par-2/item-3 - suppl-4141-164/art-3/par-1: 同条第三項 → 中小企業退職金共済法 第十条第三項 (Article 10, paragraph (3)), art-10/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-10/par-3 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 中小企業退職金共済法 附則第十六条第一項（政令への委任） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4141-164/art-16/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-20261106T173426-032, 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