# 中小企業退職金共済法 / Small and Medium Sized Enterprise Retirement Allowance Cooperative Act — 第二十一条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 21)

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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: 第二十一条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 21)（罰則に関する経過措置） — address `suppl-4231-26/art-21`
- Text in force since: 2025-06-01
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### 第二十一条（罰則に関する経過措置） — Transitional Measures Concerning Penal Provisions
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>suppl-4231-26/art-21 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4231-26/art-21</sup>

**第一項**  施行日前にした行為及び附則第十条の規定によりなお従前の例によることとされる場合における施行日以後にした行為に対する罰則の適用については、なお従前の例による。
<sup>suppl-4231-26/art-21/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4231-26/art-21/par-1</sup>
With regard to the application of penal provisions to acts committed before the Effective Date and to acts committed on or after the Effective Date in the cases where the provisions then in force continue to govern pursuant to the provisions of Article 10 of the Supplementary Provisions, the provisions then in force continue to govern.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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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-20261106T173426-022, 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