# 中小企業退職金共済法 / Small and Medium Sized Enterprise Retirement Allowance Cooperative Act — 第八十条 (Article 80)

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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
- 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: 第八十条 (Article 80)（主務大臣等） — address `art-80`
- Text in force since: 2025-06-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-80
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### 第八十条（主務大臣等） — Competent Minister, etc.
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>art-80 · https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-80</sup>

  **第一項**  機構に係る通則法における主務大臣及び主務省令は、それぞれ厚生労働大臣及び厚生労働省令とする。
  <sup>art-80/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-80/par-1</sup>
  The competent minister and order of the competent ministry under the General Rules Act with regard to the Organization are the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare and the Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, respectively.
  <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-20261106T173426-015, translated 2026-11-07
- claude-sonnet-5-5, corrected on review by claude-opus-5-5 — Machine translation corrected on review, 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