# 中小企業退職金共済法 / Small and Medium Sized Enterprise Retirement Allowance Cooperative Act — 第一条 (Article 1)

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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: 第一条 (Article 1)（目的） — address `art-1`
- Text in force since: 2025-06-01
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### 第一条（目的） — Purpose
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>art-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-1</sup>

**第一項**  この法律は、中小企業の従業員について、中小企業者の相互扶助の精神に基づき、その拠出による退職金共済制度を確立し、もつてこれらの従業員の福祉の増進と中小企業の振興に寄与すること等を目的とする。
<sup>art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-1/par-1</sup>
The purpose of this Act is, with regard to the employees of small and medium-sized enterprises, to establish a retirement allowance mutual aid system funded by contributions from small and medium-sized enterprises, based on the spirit of mutual aid among them, and thereby to contribute to the enhancement of the welfare of those employees and the promotion of small and medium-sized enterprises, etc.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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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-20261106T173426-001, 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