# 中小企業退職金共済法 / Small and Medium Sized Enterprise Retirement Allowance Cooperative Act — 第七十八条の二 (Article 78-2) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-78-2. 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: 第七十八条の二 (Article 78-2)（報告及び検査） — address `art-78-2` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-78-2 - 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. --- ### 第七十八条の二（報告及び検査） — Reports and Inspections caption: machine translation, not official art-78-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-78-2 **第一項** 厚生労働大臣は、この章の規定を施行するため必要があると認めるときは、財形受託金融機関に対し、その委託を受けた業務に関し報告をさせ、又はその職員に、財形受託金融機関の事務所に立ち入り、その委託を受けた業務に関し業務の状況若しくは帳簿、書類その他の物件を検査させることができる。 art-78-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-78-2/par-1 When the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare finds it necessary in order to enforce the provisions of this Chapter, the Minister may have a property accumulation entrusted financial institution submit reports concerning the operations entrusted to it, or have officials enter the offices of a property accumulation entrusted financial institution and inspect the state of its operations or its books, documents and other articles concerning the operations entrusted to it. machine translation, not official **第二項** 前項の規定により立入検査をする職員は、その身分を示す証明書を携帯し、関係者にこれを提示しなければならない。 art-78-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-78-2/par-2 An official who conducts an on-site inspection under the provisions of the preceding paragraph must carry a certificate showing the official's status and present it to the persons concerned. machine translation, not official **第三項** 第一項の規定による立入検査の権限は、犯罪捜査のために認められたものと解釈してはならない。 art-78-2/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-78-2/par-3 The authority to conduct on-site inspections under paragraph (1) must not be construed as being vested for criminal investigation. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-78-2/par-2: 前項 → 中小企業退職金共済法 第七十八条の二第一項 (Article 78-2, paragraph (1)), art-78-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-78-2/par-1 - art-78-2/par-3: 第一項 → 中小企業退職金共済法 第七十八条の二第一項 (Article 78-2, paragraph (1)), art-78-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-78-2/par-1 ## Cited by 4 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 中小企業退職金共済法 第七十二条第四項（業務の委託） — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-72/par-4 - 中小企業退職金共済法 第七十八条の二第二項（報告及び検査） — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-78-2/par-2 - 中小企業退職金共済法 第七十八条の二第三項（報告及び検査） — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-78-2/par-3 - 中小企業退職金共済法 第九十条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-90/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-20261106T173426-015, 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