# 中小企業退職金共済法 / Small and Medium Sized Enterprise Retirement Allowance Cooperative Act — 第六十五条 (Article 65) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-65. 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: 第六十五条 (Article 65)（役員及び職員の秘密保持義務） — address `art-65` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-65 - 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. --- ### 第六十五条（役員及び職員の秘密保持義務） — Duty of Confidentiality of Officers and Employees caption: machine translation, not official art-65 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-65 **第一項** 機構の役員及び職員は、職務上知ることのできた秘密を漏らしてはならない。その職を退いた後も、同様とする。 art-65/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-65/par-1 The officers and employees of the Organization must not divulge secrets they have come to know in the course of their duties. The same applies after they have left their positions. machine translation, not official ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 中小企業退職金共済法 第六十九条の四第四項（資産運用委員） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-69-4/par-4 - 中小企業退職金共済法 第八十八条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-88/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-20261106T173426-012, 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