# 中小企業退職金共済法 / Small and Medium Sized Enterprise Retirement Allowance Cooperative Act — 第四十条 (Article 40) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-40. 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: 第四十条 (Article 40)（特定業種の指定） — address `art-40` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-40 - 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. --- ### 第四十条（特定業種の指定） — Designation of Specified Industries caption: machine translation, not official art-40 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-40 **第一項** 厚生労働大臣は、特定業種の指定をするに当たつては、機構により当該特定業種に係る第七十条第一項第一号に掲げる業務が行われた場合において当該特定業種に属する事業を営む相当数の中小企業者が当該特定業種に係る特定業種退職金共済契約の共済契約者となる見込みがあることその他の事情を考慮し、かつ、労働政策審議会の意見を聴かなければならない。 art-40/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-40/par-1 In designating a specified industry, the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare must take into consideration the prospect that, in the case where the Organization carries out the operations set out in Article 70, paragraph (1), item (i) relating to that specified industry, a considerable number of small and medium-sized enterprises that carry on businesses belonging to that specified industry will become mutual aid policyholders under specified-industry retirement allowance mutual aid contracts relating to that specified industry, and other circumstances, and must hear the opinion of the Labour Policy Council. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-40/par-1: 第七十条第一項第一号 → 中小企業退職金共済法 第七十条第一項第一号 (Article 70, paragraph (1), item (i)), art-70/par-1/item-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-70/par-1/item-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-20261106T173426-008, 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