# 中小企業退職金共済法 / Small and Medium Sized Enterprise Retirement Allowance Cooperative Act — 第六十九条 (Article 69) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-69. 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: 第六十九条 (Article 69)（運営委員） — address `art-69` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-69 - 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. --- ### 第六十九条（運営委員） — Management Board Members caption: machine translation, not official art-69 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-69 **第一項** 運営委員は、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（当該共済契約者が法人であるときは、その代表者）及び機構の退職金共済業務の適正な運営に必要な学識経験を有する者のうちから、厚生労働大臣が任命する。 art-69/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-69/par-1 The Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare appoints management board members from among the mutual aid policyholders under specified-industry retirement allowance mutual aid contracts relating to the specified industry concerned (where the mutual aid policyholder is a corporation, its representative) and persons with the knowledge and experience necessary for the proper operation of the Organization's retirement allowance mutual aid operations. machine translation, not official **第二項** 運営委員の任期は、四年とする。ただし、補欠の運営委員の任期は、前任者の残任期間とする。 art-69/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-69/par-2 The term of office of a management board member is four years; provided, however, that the term of office of a management board member appointed to fill a vacancy is the remainder of the term of office of the predecessor. machine translation, not official **第三項** 第六十六条並びに通則法第二十一条第四項及び第二十三条第二項の規定は、運営委員について準用する。この場合において、通則法第二十三条第二項中「主務大臣又は法人の長は、それぞれ」とあるのは、「厚生労働大臣は、」と読み替えるものとする。 art-69/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-69/par-3 The provisions of Article 66 of this Act and Article 21, paragraph (4) and Article 23, paragraph (2) of the General Rules Act apply mutatis mutandis to management board members. In this case, the phrase "the competent minister or the head of the agency, respectively," in Article 23, paragraph (2) of the General Rules Act is deemed to be replaced with "the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare,". machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-69/par-3: 第六十六条 → 中小企業退職金共済法 第六十六条 (Article 66), art-66 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-66 - art-69/par-3: 通則法第二十一条第四項 → e-Gov law 411AC0000000103, 第二十一条第四項 (Article 21, paragraph (4)), art-21/par-4 — not held in this collection - art-69/par-3: 第二十三条第二項 → e-Gov law 411AC0000000103, 第二十三条第二項 (Article 23, paragraph (2)), art-23/par-2 — not held in this collection --- ## 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