# 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)

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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: 第三条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 3)（検討） — address `suppl-4161-104/art-3`
- Text in force since: 2025-06-01
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### 第三条（検討） — Review
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<sup>suppl-4161-104/art-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4161-104/art-3</sup>

**第一項**  政府は、社会保障制度に関する国会の審議を踏まえ、社会保障制度全般について、税、保険料等の負担と給付の在り方を含め、一体的な見直しを行いつつ、これとの整合を図り、公的年金制度について必要な見直しを行うものとする。
<sup>suppl-4161-104/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4161-104/art-3/par-1</sup>
The government is, based on the deliberations of the Diet concerning the social security system, to conduct an integrated review of the social security system as a whole, including the state of the burden of taxes, premiums, etc. and of benefits, and, ensuring consistency with that review, to make the necessary review of the public pension system.
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**第二項**  前項の公的年金制度についての見直しを行うに当たっては、公的年金制度の一元化を展望し、体系の在り方について検討を行うものとする。
<sup>suppl-4161-104/art-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4161-104/art-3/par-2</sup>
In conducting the review of the public pension system under the preceding paragraph, the state of the system is to be reviewed with a view to the unification of the public pension system.
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## Cites
- suppl-4161-104/art-3/par-2: 前項 → 中小企業退職金共済法 附則第三条第一項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 3, paragraph (1)), suppl-4161-104/art-3/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4161-104/art-3/par-1

## Cited by

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

- 中小企業退職金共済法 附則第三条第二項（検討） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4161-104/art-3/par-2

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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-20261106T173426-033, 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
