Supplementary Provisions
附 則
Supplementary Provisions, Article 1Effective Date
第一条（施行期日）
This Act comes into effect on the date specified by Cabinet Order within a period not exceeding one year from the day of promulgation; provided, however, that the provisions of Article 4 of the Supplementary Provisions come into effect on the day of promulgation.
この法律は、公布の日から起算して一年を超えない範囲内において政令で定める日から施行する。ただし、附則第四条の規定は、公布の日から施行する。
Supplementary Provisions, Article 2Transitional Measures Accompanying the Partial Amendment of the Small Enterprise Mutual Relief Projects Act
第二条（小規模企業共済法の一部改正に伴う経過措置）
The provisions then in force continue to govern the application money relating to an application for a mutual aid contract made pursuant to Article 5, paragraph (1) of the Small Enterprise Mutual Relief Projects Act before amendment by the provisions of Article 2 (hereinafter in this Article referred to as the "Former Small Enterprise Mutual Relief Projects Act") before the day of enforcement of this Act (hereinafter in this Article and the following Article referred to as the "Effective Date").
この法律の施行の日（以下この条及び次条において「施行日」という。）前に第二条の規定による改正前の小規模企業共済法（以下この条において「旧共済法」という。）第五条第一項の規定により行われた共済契約の申込みに係る申込金については、なお従前の例による。
Where, for a mutual aid contract concluded as provided for by the Former Small Enterprise Mutual Relief Projects Act (hereinafter in this Article referred to as a "former mutual aid contract"), payment of premiums was neglected before the Effective Date for the certain number of months or more prescribed in Article 7, paragraph (2), item (i) of the Former Small Enterprise Mutual Relief Projects Act, the provisions then in force continue to govern the cancellation of the former mutual aid contract.
The provisions then in force continue to govern the payment of cancellation refunds relating to a former mutual aid contract for which a ground set out in Article 7, paragraph (4), item (ii) or (iii) of the Former Small Enterprise Mutual Relief Projects Act arose before the Effective Date.
The provisions then in force continue to govern the payment months of mutual aid benefits by the installment payment method, only where the request for that installment payment was made before the Effective Date.
分割払の方法による共済金の支給期月については、当該分割払の請求が施行日前に行われた場合に限り、なお従前の例による。
The provisions then in force continue to govern the scope and order of priority of the bereaved family members who are to receive payment of mutual aid benefits relating to a former mutual aid contract for which a ground set out in Article 9, paragraph (1), item (i) or (ii) of the Former Small Enterprise Mutual Relief Projects Act arose before the Effective Date.
Where a mutual aid policyholder relating to a former mutual aid contract concluded before the Effective Date in the status of a small-scale enterprise that is an individual (limited to one set out in Article 2, paragraph (1), item (iv) of the Former Small Enterprise Mutual Relief Projects Act) cancelled the former mutual aid contract pursuant to Article 7, paragraph (3) of the Former Small Enterprise Mutual Relief Projects Act and then became a mutual aid policyholder again before the Effective Date, the provisions then in force continue to govern the aggregation of the number of months of paid premiums.
Supplementary Provisions, Article 4Delegation to Cabinet Order
第四条（政令への委任）
Beyond what is provided for in these Supplementary Provisions, Cabinet Order prescribes the necessary transitional measures in connection with the entry into effect of this Act.
この附則に規定するもののほか、この法律の施行に関して必要な経過措置は、政令で定める。
small-scale enterprisemachine translation
「小規模企業者」
An individual who runs a business with 20 or fewer regular employees in industry, mining, transport and similar fields, 5 or fewer in commerce or services, or no more than a number a Cabinet Order (政令) sets for the industries it names; an individual who takes part in running such a business; or an officer of a company of the same size or of a small and medium-sized enterprise organization (中小企業団体) a Cabinet Order specifies.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1)· applies throughout the law
mutual aid contractmachine translation
「共済契約」
A contract under which a small-scale enterprise (小規模企業者) promises to pay premiums (掛金) to the Organization for Small and Medium Enterprises and Regional Innovation, JAPAN (独立行政法人中小企業基盤整備機構), and the Organization promises to pay a mutual aid benefit (共済金) as the Small Enterprise Mutual Relief Projects Act provides when that person's business is closed or a similar event occurs.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (2)· applies throughout the law
mutual aid policyholdermachine translation
「共済契約者」
An individual business operator, or an officer of a company or of a small and medium-sized enterprise organization (中小企業団体), who is a party to a mutual aid contract (共済契約).
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (3)· applies throughout the law
the Effective Datemachine translation
「施行日」
The date Act No. 61 of 2015, the amending Act these supplementary provisions (附則) belong to, comes into effect.
Short name set inSupplementary Provisions, Article 2, paragraph (1)· applies only in this article
Former Small Enterprise Mutual Relief Projects Actmachine translation
「旧共済法」
This Act as it stood before Article 2 of Act No. 61 of 2015 amended it.
Short name set inSupplementary Provisions, Article 2, paragraph (1)· applies only in this article
former mutual aid contractmachine translation
「旧共済契約」
In Article 2 of the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 61 of 2015, a mutual aid contract (共済契約) concluded under the Small Enterprise Mutual Relief Projects Act as it stood before Article 2 of that Act amended it.
Short name set inSupplementary Provisions, Article 2, paragraph (2)· applies only in this article
cancellation
解除
Ending a contract by one party's notice to the other, where the contract or the law gives that party a right to cancel (Civil Code, Article 540, paragraph (1)). The Civil Code lets a party cancel for the other's failure to perform: after a demand to perform within a reasonable time that is not met, unless what is still missing is minor (Article 541), or at once where performance has become wholly impossible, or the other party has clearly refused to perform, among other cases where performance clearly will not come (Article 542, paragraph (1)). On cancellation each party must put the other back in the position before the contract, and damages can still be claimed (Article 545, paragraphs (1) and (4)); a lease, though, ends only from then on (Article 620). Cancellation differs from rescission (取消し), after which the act is treated as void from the start (Article 121).
Written by AI using Civil Code, Arts. 121, 540, 541, 542, 545, 620 as a reference.