# 中小企業退職金共済法 / Small and Medium Sized Enterprise Retirement Allowance Cooperative Act — 第六条 (Article 6)

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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: 第六条 (Article 6)（契約の申込み） — address `art-6`
- Text in force since: 2025-06-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-6
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### 第六条（契約の申込み） — Application for Contracts
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>art-6 · https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-6</sup>

  **第一項**  中小企業者は、その雇用する従業員の意に反して当該従業員を被共済者とする退職金共済契約の申込みを行つてはならない。
  <sup>art-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-6/par-1</sup>
  A small and medium-sized enterprise must not apply for a retirement allowance mutual aid contract naming an employee it employs as the covered employee against the will of that employee.
  <sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

  **第二項**  中小企業者は、退職金共済契約の申込みをするときは、当該退職金共済契約の被共済者となる者の氏名及び掛金月額を明らかにしなければならない。
  <sup>art-6/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-6/par-2</sup>
  When applying for a retirement allowance mutual aid contract, a small and medium-sized enterprise must state clearly the name of the person who is to be the covered employee under that retirement allowance mutual aid contract and the monthly premium.
  <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-20261106T173426-002, 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