# 中小企業退職金共済法 / Small and Medium Sized Enterprise Retirement Allowance Cooperative Act — 第一条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 1) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4231-26/art-1. 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: 第一条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 1)（施行期日） — address `suppl-4231-26/art-1` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4231-26/art-1 - 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. --- ### 第一条（施行期日） — Effective Date caption: machine translation, not official suppl-4231-26/art-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4231-26/art-1 **第一項** この法律は、平成二十三年十月一日から施行する。ただし、次条第三項及び第五項並びに附則第三条第十一項及び第十二項、第六条、第七条、第九条、第十五条、第十八条並びに第二十二条の規定は、公布の日から施行する。 suppl-4231-26/art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4231-26/art-1/par-1 This Act comes into effect on October 1, 2011; provided, however, that the provisions of paragraphs (3) and (5) of the following Article, and Article 3, paragraphs (11) and (12), Articles 6, 7, 9, 15, 18 and 22 of the Supplementary Provisions come into effect as of the date of promulgation. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-4231-26/art-1/par-1: 第十五条 → 中小企業退職金共済法 附則第十五条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 15), suppl-4231-26/art-15 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4231-26/art-15 - suppl-4231-26/art-1/par-1: 第十八条 → 中小企業退職金共済法 附則第十八条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 18), suppl-4231-26/art-18 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4231-26/art-18 - suppl-4231-26/art-1/par-1: 第二十二条 → 中小企業退職金共済法 附則第二十二条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 22), suppl-4231-26/art-22 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4231-26/art-22 --- ## 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-20261106T173426-018, translated 2026-11-07 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch sme-retirement-allowance-act-20261106T173426-034, 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