Supplementary Provisions
附 則
Supplementary Provisions, Article 1Effective Date
第一条（施行期日）
This Act comes into effect as of the time of establishment of the Organization for Small and Medium Enterprises and Regional Innovation, JAPAN (hereinafter referred to as the "Organization"); provided, however, that the provisions set out in the following items come into effect as of the days specified in those items:
この法律は、独立行政法人中小企業基盤整備機構（以下「機構」という。）の成立の時から施行する。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。
Supplementary Provisions, Article 31Transitional Measures Accompanying the Partial Amendment of the Small Enterprise Mutual Relief Projects Act
第三十一条（小規模企業共済法の一部改正に伴う経過措置）
An application for a mutual aid contract, an application to increase or decrease the monthly premium and other procedures made under the provisions of the Small Enterprise Mutual Relief Projects Act before the amendment by the provisions of the preceding Article, before the enforcement of the provisions of that Article, are deemed to have been made under the provisions of the Small Enterprise Mutual Relief Projects Act after the amendment by the provisions of that Article.
前条の規定の施行前に同条の規定による改正前の小規模企業共済法の規定によってした共済契約の申込み、掛金月額の増加又は減少の申込みその他の手続は、同条の規定による改正後の小規模企業共済法の規定によってしたものとみなす。
Supplementary Provisions, Article 52Delegation to Cabinet Order
第五十二条（政令への委任）
Beyond what is provided for in these Supplementary Provisions, transitional measures necessary incidental to the enforcement of this Act are specified by Cabinet Order.
この附則に規定するもののほか、この法律の施行に伴い必要な経過措置は、政令で定める。
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; Act No. 146 of 2002, apart from the provisions listed in item (i) of Article 1 of its supplementary provisions (附則), came into effect at the time the Organization was established.
Short name set inSupplementary Provisions, Article 1, paragraph (1)
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
A public body the State sets up by law, as an incorporated administrative agency (独立行政法人) under its own Act and the Act on General Rules for Incorporated Administrative Agencies (独立行政法人通則法), whose purpose is to lay the groundwork for livelier business activity by small and medium-sized enterprises (中小企業者) and other businesses, through advice and training, loans, investment, grants, debt guarantees, developing facilities in the regions, running mutual aid schemes and other activities (Act on the Organization for Small & Medium Enterprises and Regional Innovation, Japan, Independent Administrative Agency (独立行政法人中小企業基盤整備機構法), Articles 3 and 4). Among its duties, it runs the small enterprise mutual relief scheme under the Small Enterprise Mutual Relief Projects Act and the bankruptcy prevention mutual relief scheme under the Act on Mutual Relief System for the Prevention of Bankruptcies of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (Article 15, paragraph (1), items (xvi) and (xvii) of the Organization's own Act).
Written by AI using Act on the Organization for Small & Medium Enterprises and Regional Innovation, Japan, Independent Administrative Agency, Arts. 3, 4, 15 as a reference.