# 小規模企業共済法 / Small Enterprise Mutual Relief Projects Act — 第五条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 5) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/small-enterprise-mutual-aid-act/suppl-4071-44/art-5. 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: 第五条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 5)（旧第二種共済契約に係る小規模企業共済法の規定の適用についての読替規定） — address `suppl-4071-44/art-5` - Text in force since: 2021-06-17 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/small-enterprise-mutual-aid-act/suppl-4071-44/art-5 - 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. --- ### 第五条（旧第二種共済契約に係る小規模企業共済法の規定の適用についての読替規定） — Provisions on Replacement of Terms for the Application of the Small Enterprise Mutual Relief Projects Act to Former Type 2 Mutual Aid Contracts caption: machine translation, not official suppl-4071-44/art-5 · https://japanlaw.org/en/small-enterprise-mutual-aid-act/suppl-4071-44/art-5 **第一項** この法律の施行前に効力を生じた旧第二種共済契約については、次の表の上欄に掲げる小規模企業共済法の規定中同表の中欄に掲げる字句を、同表の下欄に掲げる字句と読み替えてこれらの規定を適用するほか、同法の規定の適用に関し必要な技術的読替えは、政令で定める。 第九条第一項 一　事業の廃止（会社等の役員たる小規模企業者としての地位において締結した共済契約に係る共済契約者にあつては、その会社等の解散）があつたとき（第七条第四項第一号及び第二号に掲げるときを除く。）。 二　会社等の役員たる小規模企業者としての地位において締結した共済契約に係る共済契約者にあつては、疾病、負傷又は死亡によりその会社等の役員でなくなつたとき。 三　六十五歳以上で、その共済契約者の掛金納付月数が百八十月以上である共済契約者にあつては、前二号に掲げる事由が生じないで共済金の支給の請求があつたとき。 一　事業の廃止（会社等の役員たる小規模企業者としての地位において締結した共済契約に係る共済契約者にあつては、その会社等の解散）があつたとき。 二　会社等の役員たる小規模企業者としての地位において締結した共済契約に係る共済契約者にあつては、前号に掲げる事由が生じないでその会社等の役員でなくなつたとき。 三　六十五歳以上で、その共済契約者の掛金納付月数が百八十月以上である共済契約者にあつては、前二号に掲げる事由が生じないで共済金の支給の請求があつたとき。 四　前三号に掲げる事由が生じないで共済契約者の掛金納付月数が三百六十月に達したとき。 第九条第四項第二号 第一項第一号 第一項第一号及び第四号 第九条の三第一項第二号 又は第二号 、第二号又は第四号 第十三条第一項前段 共済契約者となり 旧第二種共済契約（小規模企業共済法及び中小企業事業団法の一部を改正する法律（平成七年法律第四十四号）第一条の規定による改正前の小規模企業共済法第二条の四の規定の例による第二種共済契約をいう。次項において同じ。）の共済契約者となり 第十三条第二項 共済契約を締結し 旧第二種共済契約を締結し suppl-4071-44/art-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/small-enterprise-mutual-aid-act/suppl-4071-44/art-5/par-1 For a former type 2 mutual aid contract that took effect before the enforcement of this Act, the provisions of the Small Enterprise Mutual Relief Projects Act listed in the upper column of the following table apply with the phrases listed in the middle column of that table in those provisions deemed to be replaced with the phrases listed in the lower column of that table, and other technical replacements of terms necessary for the application of the provisions of that Act are specified by Cabinet Order. Article 9, paragraph (1) (i) discontinuation of business (in the case of a mutual aid policyholder concerning a mutual aid contract concluded in the capacity of a small-scale enterprise that is an officer of a company, etc., dissolution of that company, etc.) (excluding the cases set out in Article 7, paragraph (4), items (i) and (ii)); (ii) in the case of a mutual aid policyholder concerning a mutual aid contract concluded in the capacity of a small-scale enterprise that is an officer of a company, etc., when that person ceases to be an officer of that company, etc. due to illness, injury or death; (iii) in the case of a mutual aid policyholder who is aged 65 or more and whose number of months of paid premiums is 180 months or more, when a request for payment of mutual aid benefits is made without any ground set out in the preceding two items having arisen. (i) discontinuation of business (in the case of a mutual aid policyholder concerning a mutual aid contract concluded in the capacity of a small-scale enterprise that is an officer of a company, etc., dissolution of that company, etc.); (ii) in the case of a mutual aid policyholder concerning a mutual aid contract concluded in the capacity of a small-scale enterprise that is an officer of a company, etc., when that person ceases to be an officer of that company, etc. without the ground set out in the preceding item having arisen; (iii) in the case of a mutual aid policyholder who is aged 65 or more and whose number of months of paid premiums is 180 months or more, when a request for payment of mutual aid benefits is made without any ground set out in the preceding two items having arisen; (iv) when the number of months of paid premiums of a mutual aid policyholder reaches 360 months without any ground set out in the preceding three items having arisen. Article 9, paragraph (4), item (ii) paragraph (1), item (i) paragraph (1), items (i) and (iv) Article 9-3, paragraph (1), item (ii) or item (ii) , item (ii) or item (iv) Article 13, paragraph (1), first sentence becomes a mutual aid policyholder becomes a mutual aid policyholder of a former type 2 mutual aid contract (meaning a type 2 mutual aid contract in accordance with the provisions of Article 2-4 of the Small Enterprise Mutual Relief Projects Act before the amendment by the provisions of Article 1 of the Act Partially Amending the Small Enterprise Mutual Relief Projects Act and the Small and Medium Enterprise Corporation Act (Act No. 44 of 1995); the same applies in the following paragraph) Article 13, paragraph (2) concludes a mutual aid contract concludes a former type 2 mutual aid contract machine translation, not official **第二項** この法律の施行前に効力を生じた旧第二種共済契約については、小規模企業共済法第七条第四項の規定は、適用しない。 suppl-4071-44/art-5/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/small-enterprise-mutual-aid-act/suppl-4071-44/art-5/par-2 The provisions of Article 7, paragraph (4) of the Small Enterprise Mutual Relief Projects Act do not apply to a former type 2 mutual aid contract that took effect before the enforcement of this Act. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-4071-44/art-5/par-1: 次項 → 小規模企業共済法 附則第五条第二項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 5, paragraph (2)), suppl-4071-44/art-5/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/small-enterprise-mutual-aid-act/suppl-4071-44/art-5/par-2 - suppl-4071-44/art-5/par-2: 小規模企業共済法第七条第四項 → 小規模企業共済法 第七条第四項 (Article 7, paragraph (4)), art-7/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/en/small-enterprise-mutual-aid-act/art-7/par-4 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 小規模企業共済法 附則第五条第一項（旧第二種共済契約に係る小規模企業共済法の規定の適用についての読替規定） — https://japanlaw.org/en/small-enterprise-mutual-aid-act/suppl-4071-44/art-5/par-1 - 小規模企業共済法 附則第二条第一項（共済金等に係る経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/small-enterprise-mutual-aid-act/suppl-4151-88/art-2/par-1 - 小規模企業共済法 附則第三条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/small-enterprise-mutual-aid-act/suppl-4151-88/art-3/par-1 --- ## 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-20261106T173426-008, 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