# 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 — 第二十条 (Article 20) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-bankruptcy-prevention-act/art-20. 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: 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 - 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: 第二十条 (Article 20)（期間計算の特例） — address `art-20` - Text in force since: 2020-04-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-bankruptcy-prevention-act/art-20 - e-Gov law ID: 352AC0000000084 — 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. --- ### 第二十条（期間計算の特例） — Special Provisions on Calculation of Periods caption: machine translation, not official art-20 · https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-bankruptcy-prevention-act/art-20 **第一項** 共済金の貸付け又は早期償還手当金、解約手当金若しくは完済手当金の支給の請求に係る期間を計算する場合において、その請求が郵便又は民間事業者による信書の送達に関する法律（平成十四年法律第九十九号）第二条第六項に規定する一般信書便事業者若しくは同条第九項に規定する特定信書便事業者による同条第二項に規定する信書便により行われたものであるときは、送付に要した日数は、その期間に算入しない。 art-20/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-bankruptcy-prevention-act/art-20/par-1 When calculating a period relating to a request for a loan of mutual aid benefits or for payment of an early repayment allowance, cancellation refund or full repayment allowance, where the request was made by mail, or by a general correspondence delivery provider prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (6) of the Act on Correspondence Delivery by Private Business Operators (Act No. 99 of 2002) or a specified correspondence delivery provider prescribed in paragraph (9) of that Article, by correspondence delivery prescribed in paragraph (2) of that Article, the number of days required for sending is not counted in that period. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-20/par-1: 民間事業者による信書の送達に関する法律（平成十四年法律第九十九号）第二条第六項 → e-Gov law 414AC0000000099, 第二条第六項 (Article 2, paragraph (6)), art-2/par-6 — not held in this collection - art-20/par-1: 同条第九項 → e-Gov law 414AC0000000099, 第二条第九項 (Article 2, paragraph (9)), art-2/par-9 — not held in this collection - art-20/par-1: 同条第二項 → e-Gov law 414AC0000000099, 第二条第二項 (Article 2, paragraph (2)), art-2/par-2 — not held in this collection --- ## 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-20261106T173426-005, 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