# 中小企業退職金共済法 / Small and Medium Sized Enterprise Retirement Allowance Cooperative Act — 第十条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 10)

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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: 第十条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 10)（罰則） — address `suppl-4141-164/art-10`
- Text in force since: 2025-06-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4141-164/art-10
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### 第十条（罰則） — Penal Provisions
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>suppl-4141-164/art-10 · https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4141-164/art-10</sup>

**第一項**  附則第八条第一項の規定による報告をせず、若しくは虚偽の報告をし、又は同項の規定による検査を拒み、妨げ、若しくは忌避した場合には、その違反行為をした受託金融機関の役員又は職員は、二十万円以下の過料に処する。
<sup>suppl-4141-164/art-10/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4141-164/art-10/par-1</sup>
In the case where a person fails to make the report under Article 8, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions or makes a false report, or refuses, obstructs or evades the inspection under that paragraph, the officer or employee of the entrusted financial institution who committed the violation is subject to a non-penal fine of 200,000 yen or less.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- suppl-4141-164/art-10/par-1: 附則第八条第一項 → 中小企業退職金共済法 附則第八条第一項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 8, paragraph (1)), suppl-4141-164/art-8/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4141-164/art-8/par-1

## Cited by

1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction.

- 中小企業退職金共済法 附則第十六条第一項（政令への委任） — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4141-164/art-16/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-20261106T173426-033, 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-20261106T173426-033, 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
