# 中小企業退職金共済法 / Small and Medium Sized Enterprise Retirement Allowance Cooperative Act — 第八十五条 (Article 85)

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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: 第八十五条 (Article 85)（掛金及び退職金等の額の検討） — address `art-85`
- Text in force since: 2025-06-01
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### 第八十五条（掛金及び退職金等の額の検討） — Review of the Amounts of Premiums and Retirement Allowances, etc.
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>art-85 · https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-85</sup>

**第一項**  掛金及び退職金等の額は、少なくとも五年ごとに、退職金等の支給に要する費用及び運用収入の額の推移及び予想等を基礎として、検討するものとする。
<sup>art-85/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-85/par-1</sup>
The amounts of premiums and retirement allowances, etc. are to be reviewed at least every five years, on the basis of the trends, forecasts, etc. of the costs required for the payment of retirement allowances, etc. and of the amount of investment income.
<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-20261106T173426-016, 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-20261106T173426-016, 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