# 中小企業退職金共済法 / Small and Medium Sized Enterprise Retirement Allowance Cooperative Act — 第十二条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 12)

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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: 第十二条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 12) — address `suppl-4141-39/art-12`
- Text in force since: 2025-06-01
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### 第十二条
<sup>suppl-4141-39/art-12 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4141-39/art-12</sup>

**第一項**  この法律の施行の際現に旧法第六十九条第一項の規定に基づき機構が同項の認可を受けて金融機関に対して行っている同項第五号の業務の一部の委託については、機構が前条第一項の規定に基づき金融機関に対して行っている委託とみなす。
<sup>suppl-4141-39/art-12/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4141-39/art-12/par-1</sup>
With regard to the entrustment to a financial institution of part of the operations set out in item (v) of Article 69, paragraph (1) of the Former Act that the Organization is actually conducting, at the time this Act comes into effect, with the authorization referred to in that paragraph pursuant to the provisions of that paragraph, it is deemed to be an entrustment that the Organization is conducting to a financial institution pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) of the preceding Article.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- suppl-4141-39/art-12/par-1: 前条第一項 → 中小企業退職金共済法 附則第十一条第一項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 11, paragraph (1)), suppl-4141-39/art-11/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4141-39/art-11/par-1

## Cited by

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

- 中小企業退職金共済法 附則第十三条第一項（機構の業務の実施に伴う特例） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4141-39/art-13/par-1
- 中小企業退職金共済法 附則第十五条第一項（政令への委任） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4141-39/art-15/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-20261106T173426-032, 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
