# 小規模企業共済法 / Small Enterprise Mutual Relief Projects Act — 第一条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 1) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/small-enterprise-mutual-aid-act/suppl-4161-35/art-1. 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: 第一条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 1)（施行期日） — address `suppl-4161-35/art-1` - 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-4161-35/art-1 - 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. --- ### 第一条（施行期日） — Effective Date caption: machine translation, not official suppl-4161-35/art-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/small-enterprise-mutual-aid-act/suppl-4161-35/art-1 **第一項** この法律は、次の各号に掲げる区分に応じ、当該各号に定める日又は時から施行する。 suppl-4161-35/art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/small-enterprise-mutual-aid-act/suppl-4161-35/art-1/par-1 This Act comes into effect on the dates or at the times specified in the following items, according to the categories of provisions set forth in those items: machine translation, not official **一** 第二条、次条（中小企業総合事業団法及び機械類信用保険法の廃止等に関する法律（平成十四年法律第百四十六号）附則第九条から第十八条までの改正規定を除く。）並びに附則第三条から第七条まで、第十一条、第二十二条及び第三十条の規定　公布の日 suppl-4161-35/art-1/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/small-enterprise-mutual-aid-act/suppl-4161-35/art-1/par-1/item-1 the provisions of Article 2 and the following Article (excluding the provisions amending Articles 9 through 18 of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act on the Abolition, etc. of the Japan Small and Medium Enterprise Corporation Act and the Machinery Credit Insurance Act (Act No. 146 of 2002)), and the provisions of Articles 3 through 7, Article 11, Article 22 and Article 30 of the Supplementary Provisions: the date of promulgation. machine translation, not official --- ## 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-20261106T173426-007, translated 2026-11-07 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch small-enterprise-mutual-aid-act-20261106T173426-009, 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