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 and six months from the date of promulgation; provided, however, that the provisions listed in the following items come into effect as of the date specified in the respective items.
この法律は、公布の日から起算して一年六月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、次の各号に掲げる規定は、当該各号に定める日から施行する。
the provisions amending Article 2, paragraph (2) by adding one item, the provisions amending Article 9, paragraph (2), item (iii), and the provisions of the following Article and Article 4 of the Supplementary Provisions: the date specified by Cabinet Order within a period not exceeding three months from the date of promulgation;
Supplementary Provisions, Article 2Transitional Measures Concerning Situations in Which Mutual Aid Benefits Are Lent
第二条（共済金を貸し付ける事態に関する経過措置）
With regard to the lending of mutual aid benefits relating to a situation that arose before the enforcement of the provisions amending Article 2, paragraph (2) by adding one item and that is equivalent to the situation prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (2), item (iii) as amended by this Act, the provisions then in force continue to govern.
第二条第二項に一号を加える改正規定の施行前に生じたこの法律による改正後の第二条第二項第三号に規定する事態に相当する事態に係る共済金の貸付けについては、なお従前の例による。
Supplementary Provisions, Article 3Transitional Measures Concerning Application Money
第三条（申込金に関する経過措置）
With regard to application money relating to an application for a mutual aid contract made prior to the enforcement of this Act, the provisions then in force continue to govern.
この法律の施行前に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。
Supplementary Provisions, Article 4Transitional Measures Concerning the Amount to Be Deducted from the Total Amount of Premiums upon a Loan of Mutual Aid Benefits
第四条（共済金の貸付けに際して掛金の合計額から控除する額に関する経過措置）
With regard to the loan amount of mutual aid benefits for a request for a loan made after the enforcement of the provisions amending Article 9, paragraph (2), item (iii), where the request relates to a mutual aid contract for which an increase in the monthly premium took effect during the period from the date of occurrence of the bankruptcy until the day preceding the date of promulgation of this Act, the provisions then in force continue to govern.
Supplementary Provisions, Article 5Transitional Measures Concerning Prescription
第五条（時効に関する経過措置）
With regard to extinctive prescription of the right to receive the return of application money that arose prior to the enforcement of this Act, and of the right to receive the return of application money that arose after the enforcement of this Act in cases where the provisions then in force are to continue to govern pursuant to the provisions of Article 3 of the Supplementary Provisions, the provisions then in force continue to govern.
この法律の施行前に生じた申込金の返還を受ける権利及び附則第三条の規定によりなお従前の例によることとされる場合におけるこの法律の施行後に生じた申込金の返還を受ける権利の消滅時効については、なお従前の例による。
Supplementary Provisions, Article 8Delegation to Cabinet Order
第八条（政令への委任）
Beyond what is provided for in these Supplementary Provisions, transitional measures necessary for the enforcement of this Act are specified by Cabinet Order.
この附則に定めるもののほか、この法律の施行に関し必要な経過措置は、政令で定める。
bankruptcymachine translation
「倒産」
Any of the events Article 2, paragraph (2) lists happening to a business operator a mutual aid policyholder (共済契約者) trades with: a petition to open bankruptcy, rehabilitation, reorganization or special liquidation proceedings; a public notice, to the financial institutions using a clearing house (手形交換所) or an electronic monetary claim recording institution (電子債権記録機関) as defined in the Electronically Recorded Monetary Claims Act, of a fact that leads them to suspend their transactions with it; or another procedure, set by a Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry Order (経済産業省令), for seeking to have debts it can no longer carry reduced, forgiven or put off.
Short name set inArticle 2, paragraph (2)
mutual aid contractmachine translation
「共済契約」
A contract under which a small and medium-sized enterprise (中小企業者) 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 that, if a business operator it trades with goes bankrupt (倒産), it will lend it a mutual aid benefit (共済金) as the Act on Mutual Relief System for the Prevention of Bankruptcies of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises provides.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (2)· applies throughout the law