# 中小企業退職金共済法 / Small and Medium Sized Enterprise Retirement Allowance Cooperative Act — 第四十七条 (Article 47) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-47. 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: 第四十七条 (Article 47)（元請負人の事務処理） — address `art-47` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-47 - 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. --- ### 第四十七条（元請負人の事務処理） — Handling of Business by Principal Contractors caption: machine translation, not official art-47 · https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-47 **第一項** 事業が数次の請負によつて行われる場合の元請負人が、下請負人の委託を受けて、特定業種退職金共済契約の締結その他特定業種退職金共済契約に関して下請負人が行うべき事務を処理する場合におけるその事務の処理に関し必要な事項は、厚生労働省令で定める。 art-47/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-47/par-1 Matters necessary for the handling of business are specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, where a principal contractor of a business carried out through successive tiers of contracting handles, upon entrustment by a subcontractor, the conclusion of a specified-industry retirement allowance mutual aid contract and other business that the subcontractor is to carry out in relation to the specified-industry retirement allowance mutual aid contract. machine translation, not official ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 中小企業退職金共済法 附則第九条第一項（事業年度に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-3561-38/art-9/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-20261106T173426-010, 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