# 中小企業退職金共済法 / Small and Medium Sized Enterprise Retirement Allowance Cooperative Act — 第十八条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 18) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4231-26/art-18. 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: 第十八条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 18)（勤労者退職金共済機構の職員の採用） — address `suppl-4231-26/art-18` - 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-18 - 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. --- ### 第十八条（勤労者退職金共済機構の職員の採用） — Hiring of Employees of the Organization for Workers' Retirement Allowance Mutual Aid caption: machine translation, not official suppl-4231-26/art-18 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4231-26/art-18 **第一項** 附則第十五条の規定は、雇用・能力開発機構の職員の勤労者退職金共済機構の職員としての採用について準用する。 suppl-4231-26/art-18/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4231-26/art-18/par-1 The provisions of Article 15 of the Supplementary Provisions apply mutatis mutandis to the hiring of employees of the Employment and Human Resources Development Organization of Japan as employees of the Organization for Workers' Retirement Allowance Mutual Aid. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-4231-26/art-18/par-1: 附則第十五条 → 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 ## 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-4231-26/art-1/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, corrected on review by claude-opus-5-5 — Machine translation corrected on review, 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