# 中小企業倒産防止共済法 / Act on Mutual Relief System for the Prevention of Bankruptcies of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises — 第一条 (Article 1)
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- Law: 中小企業倒産防止共済法 (Act on Mutual Relief System for the Prevention of Bankruptcies of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises), 昭和五十二年法律第八十四号
- English title "Act on Mutual Relief System for the Prevention of Bankruptcies of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises": Ministry of Justice translation database, which lists the title
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- Provision: 第一条 (Article 1)（目的） — address `art-1`
- Text in force since: 2020-04-01
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### 第一条（目的） — Purpose
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art-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-bankruptcy-prevention-act/art-1
**第一項** この法律は、取引先企業の倒産の影響を受けて中小企業が倒産する等の事態の発生を防止するため、中小企業者の相互扶助の精神に基づき、その拠出による中小企業倒産防止共済制度を確立し、中小企業の経営の安定に寄与することを目的とする。
art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-bankruptcy-prevention-act/art-1/par-1
The purpose of this Act is, in order to prevent the occurrence of situations such as small and medium-sized enterprises going bankrupt under the influence of the bankruptcy of their business partner companies, to establish, based on the spirit of mutual aid among small and medium-sized enterprises, a system of mutual aid for the prevention of bankruptcy of small and medium-sized enterprises funded by their contributions, and thereby to contribute to the stability of the management of small and medium-sized enterprises.
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## Sources
- e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 中小企業倒産防止共済法 — the text in force from 2020-04-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/352AC0000000084/20200401_429AC0000000045), retrieved 2026-11-06
- Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — 中小企業倒産防止共済法 — its English title as the Ministry of Justice's translation database lists it (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/1056), retrieved 2026-10-07
- claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch sme-bankruptcy-prevention-act-20261106T173426-001, translated 2026-11-07
- This site's parser, version 225 — 中小企業倒産防止共済法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-06