The purpose of this Act is, in order to prevent the occurrence of situations such as small and medium-sized enterprises going bankrupt under the influence of the bankruptcy of their business partner companies, to establish, based on the spirit of mutual aid among small and medium-sized enterprises, a system of mutual aid for the prevention of bankruptcy of small and medium-sized enterprises funded by their contributions, and thereby to contribute to the stability of the management of small and medium-sized enterprises.
この法律は、取引先企業の倒産の影響を受けて中小企業が倒産する等の事態の発生を防止するため、中小企業者の相互扶助の精神に基づき、その拠出による中小企業倒産防止共済制度を確立し、中小企業の経営の安定に寄与することを目的とする。
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「中小企業者」
A company whose stated capital, or a company or individual whose number of regular employees, is at or below a limit set by industry — 300 million yen or 300 employees in manufacturing, construction, transport and other industries, 100 million yen or 100 in wholesale, 50 million yen or 100 in services, 50 million yen or 50 in retail, or the amounts a Cabinet Order (政令) sets for industries it names — or an enterprise association (企業組合), a cooperative partnership (協業組合), or a business cooperative (事業協同組合) or other union set up under a special law that meets requirements a Cabinet Order sets.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1)· applies throughout the law