# 中小企業退職金共済法 / Small and Medium Sized Enterprise Retirement Allowance Cooperative Act — 第五十七条 (Article 57) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-57. 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: 第五十七条 (Article 57)（名称） — address `art-57` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-57 - 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. --- ### 第五十七条（名称） — Name caption: machine translation, not official art-57 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-57 **第一項** この法律及び独立行政法人通則法（平成十一年法律第百三号。以下「通則法」という。）の定めるところにより設立される通則法第二条第一項に規定する独立行政法人の名称は、独立行政法人勤労者退職金共済機構とする。 art-57/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-57/par-1 The name of the incorporated administrative agency prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (1) of the General Rules Act that is established pursuant to this Act and the Act on General Rules for Incorporated Administrative Agencies (Act No. 103 of 1999; hereinafter referred to as the "General Rules Act") is the Organization for Workers' Retirement Allowance Mutual Aid. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-57/par-1: 通則法第二条第一項 → e-Gov law 411AC0000000103, 第二条第一項 (Article 2, paragraph (1)), art-2/par-1 — not held in this collection ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 中小企業退職金共済法 第二条第三項（定義） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-2/par-3 --- ## 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-20261106T173426-011, 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