Where a dispute arises between the Organization and an applicant for a mutual aid contract, a mutual aid policyholder or a surviving family member of the policyholder concerning the formation of a mutual aid contract or the effect of its cancellation, mutual aid benefits, etc. or premiums, and a request is made by the applicant for a mutual aid contract, the mutual aid policyholder or the surviving family member, the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry may provide mediation for the resolution of the dispute.
The procedures for requesting mediation under the preceding paragraph and other matters necessary for mediation are specified by Order of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry.
前項のあつせんの請求の手続その他あつせんに関し必要な事項は、経済産業省令で定める。
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
the Organizationmachine translation
「機構」
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), an incorporated administrative agency, with which small-scale enterprises (小規模企業者) conclude mutual aid contracts (共済契約) and which pays the mutual aid benefits (共済金).
Short name set inArticle 2, paragraph (2)
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
mutual aid benefit, etc.machine translation
「共済金等」
Mutual aid benefits (共済金) and cancellation refunds (解約手当金).
Short name set inArticle 3, paragraph (5), item (ii)
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.