# 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) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4271-17/art-3. 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: 第三条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 3)（掛金納付月数の通算等に関する経過措置） — address `suppl-4271-17/art-3` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4271-17/art-3 - 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. --- ### 第三条（掛金納付月数の通算等に関する経過措置） — Transitional Measures Concerning Aggregation of the Number of Months of Paid Premiums, etc. caption: machine translation, not official suppl-4271-17/art-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4271-17/art-3 **第一項** 新中退法第十八条、第四十六条第一項第一号及び第五十五条第一項第一号の規定は、被共済者（新中退法第二条第七項に規定する被共済者をいう。以下この条において同じ。）が平成二十六年四月一日以後に退職した場合について適用し、被共済者が同日前に退職した場合については、なお従前の例による。 suppl-4271-17/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4271-17/art-3/par-1 The provisions of Article 18, Article 46, paragraph (1), item (i) and Article 55, paragraph (1), item (i) of the New SME Retirement Allowance Act apply to the retirement of a covered employee (meaning a covered employee prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (7) of the New SME Retirement Allowance Act; the same applies hereinafter in this Article) on or after April 1, 2014, and the provisions then in force continue to govern the retirement of a covered employee before that day. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-4271-17/art-3/par-1: 新中退法第十八条 → 中小企業退職金共済法 第十八条 (Article 18), art-18 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-18 - suppl-4271-17/art-3/par-1: 第四十六条第一項第一号 → 中小企業退職金共済法 第四十六条第一項第一号 (Article 46, paragraph (1), item (i)), art-46/par-1/item-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-46/par-1/item-1 - suppl-4271-17/art-3/par-1: 第五十五条第一項第一号 → 中小企業退職金共済法 第五十五条第一項第一号 (Article 55, paragraph (1), item (i)), art-55/par-1/item-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-55/par-1/item-1 - suppl-4271-17/art-3/par-1: 新中退法第二条第七項 → 中小企業退職金共済法 第二条第七項 (Article 2, paragraph (7)), art-2/par-7 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-2/par-7 - suppl-4271-17/art-3/par-1: この条 → 中小企業退職金共済法 附則第三条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 3), suppl-4271-17/art-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4271-17/art-3 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 中小企業退職金共済法 附則第三条第一項（掛金納付月数の通算等に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4271-17/art-3/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 — Machine translation, batch sme-retirement-allowance-act-20261106T173426-019, translated 2026-11-07 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch sme-retirement-allowance-act-20261106T173426-035, 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