A person who has the right to receive payment of mutual aid benefits or a cancellation refund has the right to be paid, in priority to other creditors, out of the property of the Organization with respect to the amount of those mutual aid benefits or that cancellation refund (where there are sums of money that the Organization may deduct from those mutual aid benefits or that cancellation refund pursuant to the provisions of Article 16-2, the remaining amount after deducting those sums from those mutual aid benefits or that cancellation refund, respectively).
The amount of the mutual aid benefits or the cancellation refund prescribed in the preceding paragraph is, where there is loan principal or interest which the Organization may repay by drawing down the premiums relating to those mutual aid benefits or that cancellation refund pursuant to the provisions of Article 16-3, paragraph (1), the amount calculated by drawing down those premiums pursuant to the provisions of that paragraph.
The rank of the statutory lien under paragraph (1) is to be next after general statutory liens under the provisions of the Civil Code (Act No. 89 of 1896).
第一項の先取特権の順位は、民法(明治二十九年法律第八十九号)の規定による一般の先取特権に次ぐものとする。
略称規定第二条第二項
この法律において「共済契約」とは、小規模企業者が独立行政法人中小企業基盤整備機構(以下「機構」という。)に掛金を納付することを約し、機構がその者の事業の廃止等につき、この法律の定めるところにより共済金を支給することを約する契約をいう。
わかりやすく言うと
独立行政法人中小企業基盤整備機構のことです。小規模企業者から掛金を受け取り、事業の廃止などのときに共済金を支給する、共済契約の相手方です。