# 中小企業退職金共済法 / Small and Medium Sized Enterprise Retirement Allowance Cooperative Act — 第七十一条 (Article 71) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-71. 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: 第七十一条 (Article 71)（特定業種退職金共済規程） — address `art-71` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-71 - 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. --- ### 第七十一条（特定業種退職金共済規程） — Specified-Industry Retirement Allowance Mutual Aid Rules caption: machine translation, not official art-71 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-71 **第一項** 機構は、特定業種退職金共済規程をもつて次に掲げる事項を規定しなければならない。 art-71/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-71/par-1 The Organization must provide for the following matters in the specified-industry retirement allowance mutual aid rules: machine translation, not official **一** 運営委員会に関する事項 art-71/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-71/par-1/item-1 Matters concerning management boards; machine translation, not official **二** 特定業種退職金共済契約に係る掛金に関する事項 art-71/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-71/par-1/item-2 Matters concerning premiums under specified-industry retirement allowance mutual aid contracts. machine translation, not official **第二項** 特定業種退職金共済規程の変更は、厚生労働大臣の認可を受けなければ、その効力を生じない。 art-71/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-71/par-2 An amendment to the specified-industry retirement allowance mutual aid rules does not take effect unless the authorization of the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare is obtained. machine translation, not official ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 中小企業退職金共済法 第七十三条第三項（特定業種の指定に伴う措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-73/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-20261106T173426-013, 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