# 中小企業退職金共済法 / Small and Medium Sized Enterprise Retirement Allowance Cooperative Act — 第六十八条 (Article 68)

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- 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: 第六十八条 (Article 68)（運営委員会の組織） — address `art-68`
- Text in force since: 2025-06-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-68
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### 第六十八条（運営委員会の組織） — Organization of Management Boards
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>art-68 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-68</sup>

  **第一項**  運営委員会は、運営委員二十人以内をもつて組織する。
  <sup>art-68/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-68/par-1</sup>
  A management board is composed of not more than 20 management board members.
  <sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

## Cited by

1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction.

- 中小企業退職金共済法 附則第三条第四項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/suppl-4091-68/art-3/par-4

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## 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
- claude-sonnet-5-5, corrected on review by claude-opus-5-5 — Machine translation corrected on review, 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
