# 中小企業退職金共済法 / Small and Medium Sized Enterprise Retirement Allowance Cooperative Act — 第六十一条 (Article 61) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-61. 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: 第六十一条 (Article 61)（理事の職務及び権限等） — address `art-61` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-61 - 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. --- ### 第六十一条（理事の職務及び権限等） — Duties and Authority of Directors, etc. caption: machine translation, not official art-61 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-61 **第一項** 理事は、理事長の定めるところにより、理事長を補佐して機構の業務を掌理する。 art-61/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-61/par-1 Directors, as provided by the president, assist the president and take charge of the operations of the Organization. machine translation, not official **第二項** 通則法第十九条第二項の個別法で定める役員は、理事とする。ただし、理事が置かれていないときは、監事とする。 art-61/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-61/par-2 The officers specified by an individual act under Article 19, paragraph (2) of the General Rules Act are the directors; provided, however, that where no directors have been appointed, they are the auditors. machine translation, not official **第三項** 前項ただし書の場合において、通則法第十九条第二項の規定により理事長の職務を代理し又はその職務を行う監事は、その間、監事の職務を行つてはならない。 art-61/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-61/par-3 In the case referred to in the proviso to the preceding paragraph, an auditor who acts for the president or performs the president's duties pursuant to Article 19, paragraph (2) of the General Rules Act must not perform the duties of an auditor during that time. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-61/par-2: 通則法第十九条第二項 → e-Gov law 411AC0000000103, 第十九条第二項 (Article 19, paragraph (2)), art-19/par-2 — not held in this collection - art-61/par-3: 前項 → 中小企業退職金共済法 第六十一条第二項 (Article 61, paragraph (2)), art-61/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-61/par-2 - art-61/par-3: 通則法第十九条第二項 → e-Gov law 411AC0000000103, 第十九条第二項 (Article 19, paragraph (2)), art-19/par-2 — 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 第六十一条第三項（理事の職務及び権限等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-61/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