# 中小企業退職金共済法 / Small and Medium Sized Enterprise Retirement Allowance Cooperative Act — 第八十七条 (Article 87) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-87. 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: 第八十七条 (Article 87)（戸籍書類の無料証明） — address `art-87` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-87 - 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. --- ### 第八十七条（戸籍書類の無料証明） — Free Certification of Family Register Documents caption: machine translation, not official art-87 · https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-87 **第一項** 市町村長（特別区の区長を含むものとし、地方自治法（昭和二十二年法律第六十七号）第二百五十二条の十九第一項の指定都市にあつては、区長又は総合区長）は、当該市町村（特別区を含む。）の条例で定めるところにより、機構又は退職金等の支給を受ける権利を有する者に対して、被共済者又は退職金等の支給を受ける権利を有する者の戸籍に関し、無料で証明を行うことができる。 art-87/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-87/par-1 A mayor of a municipality (including the mayor of a special ward, and, for a designated city under Article 252-19, paragraph (1) of the Local Autonomy Act (Act No. 67 of 1947), the mayor of a ward or the head of a general ward) may, as provided by Municipal Ordinance of the relevant municipality (including a special ward), certify free of charge, to the Organization or a person who has the right to receive a retirement allowance, etc., matters concerning the family register of a covered employee or of a person who has the right to receive a retirement allowance, etc. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-87/par-1: 地方自治法（昭和二十二年法律第六十七号）第二百五十二条の十九第一項 → e-Gov law 322AC0000000067, 第二百五十二条の十九第一項 (Article 252-19, paragraph (1)), art-252-19/par-1 — not held in this collection --- ## 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