# 中小企業退職金共済法 / Small and Medium Sized Enterprise Retirement Allowance Cooperative Act — 第八十六条 (Article 86) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-86. 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: 第八十六条 (Article 86)（船員に関する特例） — address `art-86` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-86 - 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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第八十六条（船員に関する特例） — Special Provisions on Mariners caption: machine translation, not official art-86 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-86 **第一項** 船員法（昭和二十二年法律第百号）の適用を受ける船員である被共済者に関しては、第十条第五項中「厚生労働大臣」とあるのは「国土交通大臣」と、「厚生労働省令」とあるのは「国土交通省令」とする。 art-86/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-86/par-1 With regard to a covered employee who is a mariner to whom the Mariners Act (Act No. 100 of 1947) applies, the term "Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare" in Article 10, paragraph (5) is deemed to be replaced with "Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism", and the term "Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare" is deemed to be replaced with "Order of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism". machine translation, not official **第二項** 第十八条及び第五十五条第一項第一号に規定する場合において、被共済者がこれらの規定に規定する退職前に船員法の適用を受ける船員である被共済者であつたときは、これらの規定中「厚生労働大臣」とあるのは「国土交通大臣」と、「厚生労働省令で定めるやむを得ない事情」とあるのは「国土交通省令で定めるやむを得ない事情」とする。 art-86/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-86/par-2 In the cases prescribed in Article 18 and Article 55, paragraph (1), item (i), where, before the retirement prescribed in those provisions, the covered employee was a covered employee who was a mariner to whom the Mariners Act applies, the term "Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare" in those provisions is deemed to be replaced with "Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism", and the phrase "unavoidable circumstances specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare" is deemed to be replaced with "unavoidable circumstances specified by Order of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism". machine translation, not official **第三項** 第一項の規定により読み替えて適用する第十条第五項並びに前項の規定により読み替えて適用する第十八条及び第五十五条第一項第一号に規定する国土交通大臣の職権で政令で定めるものは、地方運輸局長（運輸監理部長を含む。）が行う。 art-86/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-86/par-3 The authority of the Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism prescribed in Article 10, paragraph (5) as applied with replacement of terms pursuant to paragraph (1), and in Article 18 and Article 55, paragraph (1), item (i) as applied with replacement of terms pursuant to the preceding paragraph, that is specified by Cabinet Order is exercised by the Director-General of a District Transport Bureau (including the Director-General of a Transport Supervisory Department). machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-86/par-1: 第十条第五項 → 中小企業退職金共済法 第十条第五項 (Article 10, paragraph (5)), art-10/par-5 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-10/par-5 - art-86/par-2: 第十八条 → 中小企業退職金共済法 第十八条 (Article 18), art-18 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-18 - art-86/par-2: 第五十五条第一項第一号 → 中小企業退職金共済法 第五十五条第一項第一号 (Article 55, paragraph (1), item (i)), art-55/par-1/item-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-55/par-1/item-1 - art-86/par-3: 第一項 → 中小企業退職金共済法 第八十六条第一項 (Article 86, paragraph (1)), art-86/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-86/par-1 - art-86/par-3: 第十条第五項 → 中小企業退職金共済法 第十条第五項 (Article 10, paragraph (5)), art-10/par-5 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-10/par-5 - art-86/par-3: 前項 → 中小企業退職金共済法 第八十六条第二項 (Article 86, paragraph (2)), art-86/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-86/par-2 - art-86/par-3: 第十八条 → 中小企業退職金共済法 第十八条 (Article 18), art-18 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-18 - art-86/par-3: 第五十五条第一項第一号 → 中小企業退職金共済法 第五十五条第一項第一号 (Article 55, paragraph (1), item (i)), art-55/par-1/item-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-55/par-1/item-1 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 中小企業退職金共済法 第八十六条第三項（船員に関する特例） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-retirement-allowance-act/art-86/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-20261106T173426-016, 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-20261106T173426-016, 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