# 中小企業退職金共済法 / Small and Medium Sized Enterprise Retirement Allowance Cooperative Act — 第十四条 (Article 14) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-14. 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: 第十四条 (Article 14)（遺族の範囲及び順位） — address `art-14` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-14 - 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). English: as marked on each line below. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第十四条（遺族の範囲及び順位） — Scope and Order of Bereaved Family Members caption: machine translation, not official art-14 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-14 **第一項** 第十条第一項の規定により退職金の支給を受けるべき遺族は、次の各号に掲げる者とする。 art-14/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-14/par-1 The bereaved family members who are to receive payment of a retirement allowance pursuant to the provisions of Article 10, paragraph (1) are the persons set out in the following items. machine translation, not official **一** 配偶者（届出をしていないが、被共済者の死亡の当時事実上婚姻関係と同様の事情にあつた者を含む。） art-14/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-14/par-1/item-1 A spouse (including a person who, although not having filed a notification of marriage, was in circumstances equivalent to a de facto marital relationship with the covered employee at the time of the covered employee's death); machine translation, not official **二** 子、父母、孫、祖父母及び兄弟姉妹で被共済者の死亡の当時主としてその収入によつて生計を維持していたもの art-14/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-14/par-1/item-2 Children, parents, grandchildren, grandparents and siblings, in each case those who were mainly supported financially by the income of the covered employee at the time of the covered employee's death; machine translation, not official **三** 前号に掲げる者のほか、被共済者の死亡の当時主としてその収入によつて生計を維持していた親族 art-14/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-14/par-1/item-3 Relatives, other than the persons set out in the preceding item, who were mainly supported financially by the income of the covered employee at the time of the covered employee's death; machine translation, not official **四** 子、父母、孫、祖父母及び兄弟姉妹で第二号に該当しないもの art-14/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-14/par-1/item-4 Children, parents, grandchildren, grandparents and siblings, in each case those who do not fall under item (ii). machine translation, not official **第二項** 退職金を受けるべき遺族の順位は前項各号の順位により、同項第二号及び第四号に掲げる者のうちにあつては同号に掲げる順位による。この場合において、父母については養父母、実父母の順とし、祖父母については養父母の養父母、養父母の実父母、実父母の養父母、実父母の実父母の順とする。 art-14/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-14/par-2 The order of priority of the bereaved family members who are to receive a retirement allowance is the order of the items of the preceding paragraph, and, among the persons set out in items (ii) and (iv) of that paragraph, the order in which they are set out in those items. In this case, for parents the order is adoptive parents and then biological parents, and for grandparents the order is the adoptive parents of adoptive parents, the biological parents of adoptive parents, the adoptive parents of biological parents, and the biological parents of biological parents. machine translation, not official **第三項** 前項の規定により退職金を受けるべき遺族に同順位者が二人以上あるときは、退職金は、その人数によつて等分して支給する。 art-14/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-14/par-3 Where there are two or more persons of the same rank among the bereaved family members who are to receive a retirement allowance under the preceding paragraph, the retirement allowance is paid in equal shares according to their number. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-14/par-1: 第十条第一項 → 中小企業退職金共済法 第十条第一項 (Article 10, paragraph (1)), art-10/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-10/par-1 - art-14/par-1/item-3: 前号 → 中小企業退職金共済法 第十四条第一項第二号 (Article 14, paragraph (1), item (ii)), art-14/par-1/item-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-14/par-1/item-2 - art-14/par-1/item-4: 第二号 → 中小企業退職金共済法 第十四条第一項第二号 (Article 14, paragraph (1), item (ii)), art-14/par-1/item-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-14/par-1/item-2 - art-14/par-2: 前項 → 中小企業退職金共済法 第十四条第一項 (Article 14, paragraph (1)), art-14/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-14/par-1 - art-14/par-2: 同項第二号 → 中小企業退職金共済法 第十四条第一項第二号 (Article 14, paragraph (1), item (ii)), art-14/par-1/item-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-14/par-1/item-2 - art-14/par-2: 第四号 → 中小企業退職金共済法 第十四条第一項第四号 (Article 14, paragraph (1), item (iv)), art-14/par-1/item-4 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-14/par-1/item-4 - art-14/par-3: 前項 → 中小企業退職金共済法 第十四条第二項 (Article 14, paragraph (2)), art-14/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-14/par-2 ## Cited by 13 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 中小企業退職金共済法 第十四条第一項第三号（遺族の範囲及び順位） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-14/par-1/item-3 - 中小企業退職金共済法 第十四条第一項第四号（遺族の範囲及び順位） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-14/par-1/item-4 - 中小企業退職金共済法 第十四条第二項（遺族の範囲及び順位） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-14/par-2 - 中小企業退職金共済法 第十四条第三項（遺族の範囲及び順位） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-14/par-3 - 中小企業退職金共済法 第十五条第一項（欠格） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-15/par-1 - 中小企業退職金共済法 第五十一条第一項（準用） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-51/par-1 - 中小企業退職金共済法 附則第六条第一項（掛金納付月数の通算等に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-3501-40/art-6/par-1 - 中小企業退職金共済法 附則第七条第一項（掛金納付月数の通算に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-3611-37/art-7/par-1 - 中小企業退職金共済法 附則第四条第四項（退職金等に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4021-39/art-4/par-4 - 中小企業退職金共済法 附則第十四条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4071-63/art-14/par-1 - 中小企業退職金共済法 附則第十六条第一項（掛金納付月数の通算に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4071-63/art-16/par-1 - 中小企業退職金共済法 附則第十四条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4101-46/art-14/par-1 - 中小企業退職金共済法 附則第八条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4141-39/art-8/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-20261106T173426-003, translated 2026-11-07 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch sme-retirement-allowance-act-20261106T173426-004, 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-20261106T173426-004, 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