# 中小企業退職金共済法 / Small and Medium Sized Enterprise Retirement Allowance Cooperative Act — 第六十三条 (Article 63) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-63. 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: 第六十三条 (Article 63)（理事長及び理事の義務） — address `art-63` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-63 - 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. --- ### 第六十三条（理事長及び理事の義務） — Obligations of the President and Directors caption: machine translation, not official art-63 · https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-63 **第一項** 理事長及び理事は、退職金共済業務に係る業務上の余裕金の運用の業務について、法令、法令に基づいてする厚生労働大臣の処分、機構が定める業務方法書その他の規則を遵守し、機構のため忠実にその職務を遂行しなければならない。 art-63/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-63/par-1 The president and directors must, with regard to the operations of managing operational surplus funds relating to retirement allowance mutual aid operations, comply with laws and regulations, dispositions of the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare made under laws and regulations, the business rules established by the Organization and other rules, and perform their duties faithfully for the Organization. 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 第六十九条の四第四項（資産運用委員） — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-69-4/par-4 --- ## 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-20261106T173426-012, 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