# 中小企業退職金共済法 / Small and Medium Sized Enterprise Retirement Allowance Cooperative Act — 第八条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 8) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4141-164/art-8. 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: 第八条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 8)（報告及び検査） — address `suppl-4141-164/art-8` - 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-8 - 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). 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第八条（報告及び検査） — Reports and Inspections caption: machine translation, not official suppl-4141-164/art-8 · https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4141-164/art-8 **第一項** 厚生労働大臣は、附則第五条に規定する業務の適正な運営を確保するために必要な限度において、附則第六条第一項又は前条の規定により業務の委託を受けた金融機関（以下「受託金融機関」という。）に対し、その委託を受けた業務に関し報告をさせ、又はその職員に、受託金融機関の事務所に立ち入り、その委託を受けた業務に関し業務の状況若しくは帳簿、書類その他の必要な物件を検査させることができる。 suppl-4141-164/art-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4141-164/art-8/par-1 To the extent necessary to ensure the proper operation of the operations prescribed in Article 5 of the Supplementary Provisions, the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare may have a financial institution entrusted with operations pursuant to the provisions of Article 6, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions or the preceding Article (hereinafter referred to as an "entrusted financial institution") report on the operations so entrusted, or have officials enter the offices of an entrusted financial institution and inspect the status of the operations so entrusted, or books, documents and other necessary articles concerning those operations. machine translation, not official **第二項** 前項の規定により立入検査をする職員は、その身分を示す証明書を携帯し、関係者にこれを提示しなければならない。 suppl-4141-164/art-8/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4141-164/art-8/par-2 An official who conducts an on-site inspection under the provisions of the preceding paragraph must carry a certificate showing the official's status and present it to the persons concerned. machine translation, not official **第三項** 第一項の規定による立入検査の権限は、犯罪捜査のために認められたものと解釈してはならない。 suppl-4141-164/art-8/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4141-164/art-8/par-3 The authority to conduct on-site inspections under paragraph (1) must not be construed as being vested for criminal investigation. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-4141-164/art-8/par-1: 附則第五条 → 中小企業退職金共済法 附則第五条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 5), suppl-4141-164/art-5 — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4141-164/art-5 - suppl-4141-164/art-8/par-1: 附則第六条第一項 → 中小企業退職金共済法 附則第六条第一項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 6, paragraph (1)), suppl-4141-164/art-6/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4141-164/art-6/par-1 - suppl-4141-164/art-8/par-1: 前条 → 中小企業退職金共済法 附則第七条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 7), suppl-4141-164/art-7 — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4141-164/art-7 - suppl-4141-164/art-8/par-2: 前項 → 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 - suppl-4141-164/art-8/par-3: 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 4 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 中小企業退職金共済法 附則第八条第二項（報告及び検査） — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4141-164/art-8/par-2 - 中小企業退職金共済法 附則第八条第三項（報告及び検査） — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4141-164/art-8/par-3 - 中小企業退職金共済法 附則第十条第一項（罰則） — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4141-164/art-10/par-1 - 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 --- ## 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-20261106T173426-015, translated 2026-11-07 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, 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