# 中小企業退職金共済法 / Small and Medium Sized Enterprise Retirement Allowance Cooperative Act — 第十五条 (Article 15) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-15. 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: 第十五条 (Article 15)（欠格） — address `art-15` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-15 - 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. Only the Japanese as published by the government has legal effect; the text below is a copy of it. Every English rendering below is a translation and says which kind: the Ministry of Justice's translation, or this site's machine translation, whose model and date the Sources list names. They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第十五条（欠格） — Disqualification caption: machine translation, not official art-15 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-15 **第一項** 故意の犯罪行為により被共済者を死亡させた者は、前条の規定にかかわらず、退職金を受けることができない。被共済者の死亡前に、その者の死亡によつて退職金を受けるべき者を故意の犯罪行為により死亡させた者についても、同様とする。 art-15/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-15/par-1 A person who has caused the death of a covered employee by an intentional criminal act may not receive a retirement allowance, notwithstanding the preceding Article. The same applies to a person who, before the death of a covered employee, has caused by an intentional criminal act the death of a person who would be entitled to receive a retirement allowance upon the death of that covered employee. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-15/par-1: 前条 → 中小企業退職金共済法 第十四条 (Article 14), art-14 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-14 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 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 --- ## 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-20261106T173426-004, 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