# 中小企業退職金共済法 / Small and Medium Sized Enterprise Retirement Allowance Cooperative Act — 第六十六条 (Article 66) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-66. 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: 第六十六条 (Article 66)（役員及び職員の地位） — address `art-66` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-66 - 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. --- ### 第六十六条（役員及び職員の地位） — Position of Officers and Employees caption: machine translation, not official art-66 · https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-66 **第一項** 機構の役員及び職員は、刑法（明治四十年法律第四十五号）その他の罰則の適用については、法令により公務に従事する職員とみなす。 art-66/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-66/par-1 The officers and employees of the Organization are deemed to be employees engaged in public service pursuant to laws and regulations, for the purpose of the application of the Penal Code (Act No. 45 of 1907) and other penal provisions. machine translation, not official ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 中小企業退職金共済法 第六十九条第三項（運営委員） — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-69/par-3 - 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 - 中小企業退職金共済法 附則第十条第一項（貸し付けられた資金に係る債権に関する業務） — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4141-39/art-10/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-20261106T173426-012, 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