# 中小企業退職金共済法 / Small and Medium Sized Enterprise Retirement Allowance Cooperative Act — 第九十一条 (Article 91)

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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: 第九十一条 (Article 91) — address `art-91`
- Text in force since: 2025-06-01
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### 第九十一条
<sup>art-91 · https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-91</sup>

**第一項**  法人の代表者又は法人若しくは人の代理人、使用人その他の従業者が、その法人又は人の業務に関して、第八十九条の違反行為をしたときは、行為者を罰するのほか、その法人又は人に対しても、同条の刑を科する。
<sup>art-91/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-91/par-1</sup>
Where the representative of a juridical person, or an agent, employee or other worker of a juridical person or a person, has committed a violation under Article 89 in connection with the operations of that juridical person or person, the penalty prescribed in that Article is imposed on that juridical person or person as well as on the offender.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- art-91/par-1: 第八十九条 → 中小企業退職金共済法 第八十九条 (Article 89), art-89 — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-89

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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
- 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
