# 中小企業退職金共済法 / Small and Medium Sized Enterprise Retirement Allowance Cooperative Act — 第七章 (Chapter 7)

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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: 第七章 (Chapter 7) — address `ch-7`
- Text in force since: 2025-06-01
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## 第七章　国の補助 — Chapter VII Assistance by the National Government
<sup>heading: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>ch-7 · https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/ch-7</sup>

### 第八十三条（国の補助） — Assistance by the National Government
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>art-83 · https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-83</sup>

**第一項**  国は、毎年度、予算の範囲内において、第二十三条第一項及び第四十五条第一項の規定に基づく措置に要する費用を補助することができる。
<sup>art-83/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-83/par-1</sup>
The national government may, each fiscal year, within the limits of the budget, subsidize the costs required for the measures under Article 23, paragraph (1) and Article 45, paragraph (1).
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- art-83/par-1: 第二十三条第一項 → 中小企業退職金共済法 第二十三条第一項 (Article 23, paragraph (1)), art-23/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-23/par-1
- art-83/par-1: 第四十五条第一項 → 中小企業退職金共済法 第四十五条第一項 (Article 45, paragraph (1)), art-45/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-45/par-1

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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