# 小規模企業共済法 / Small Enterprise Mutual Relief Projects Act — 第四条 (Article 4) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/small-enterprise-mutual-aid-act/art-4. Every law, and how to address a provision: https://japanlaw.org/llms.txt. The same laws as MCP tools (no sign-in): https://japanlaw.org/mcp. - Law: 小規模企業共済法 (Small Enterprise Mutual Relief Projects Act), 昭和四十年法律第百二号 - English title "Small Enterprise Mutual Relief Projects Act": Ministry of Justice translation database, which lists the title - Kind: Act — the distinction between 法律 (Act), 政令 (Cabinet Order), 省令 (Ministerial Order) and 条例 (local ordinance) decides who may issue it and what it may say. - Provision: 第四条 (Article 4) — address `art-4` - Text in force since: 2021-06-17 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/small-enterprise-mutual-aid-act/art-4 - e-Gov law ID: 340AC0000000102 — never renamed. A permanent link, `/l/{lawId}/{address}` on this site, redirects to the page. - Every provision below carries its address and its URL on the line under it. - Japanese text: e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁). English: as marked on each line below. Only the Japanese as published by the government has legal effect; the text below is a copy of it. Every English rendering below is a translation and says which kind: the Ministry of Justice's translation, or this site's machine translation, whose model and date the Sources list names. They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第四条 art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/small-enterprise-mutual-aid-act/art-4 **第一項** 共済契約は、掛金月額を定めて締結するものとする。 art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/small-enterprise-mutual-aid-act/art-4/par-1 A mutual aid contract is to be concluded by specifying the monthly premium. machine translation, not official **第二項** 掛金月額は、千円以上であつて五百円に整数を乗じて得た額とし、共済契約者一人につき七万円を超えてはならない。 art-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/small-enterprise-mutual-aid-act/art-4/par-2 The monthly premium is to be 1,000 yen or more and an amount obtained by multiplying 500 yen by an integer, and must not exceed 70,000 yen per mutual aid policyholder. machine translation, not official ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 小規模企業共済法 附則第二項（経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/small-enterprise-mutual-aid-act/suppl-3521-52/par-2 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 小規模企業共済法 — the text in force from 2021-06-17 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/340AC0000000102/20210617_503AC0000000070), retrieved 2026-11-06 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — 小規模企業共済法 — its English title as the Ministry of Justice's translation database lists it (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/846), retrieved 2026-09-18 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch small-enterprise-mutual-aid-act-20261106T173426-001, translated 2026-11-07 - This site's parser, version 225 — 小規模企業共済法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-06