# 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 — 第二十三条 (Article 23) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-bankruptcy-prevention-act/art-23. 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: 第二十三条 (Article 23)（検討） — address `art-23` - Text in force since: 2020-04-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-bankruptcy-prevention-act/art-23 - 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. --- ### 第二十三条（検討） — Review caption: machine translation, not official art-23 · https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-bankruptcy-prevention-act/art-23 **第一項** 掛金の額、共済金の貸付額その他中小企業倒産防止共済制度に関する基本的事項は、少なくとも五年ごとに、中小企業倒産防止共済事業の収支状況及び利用状況の推移及び予想等を基礎として検討するものとする。 art-23/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-bankruptcy-prevention-act/art-23/par-1 Fundamental matters concerning the system of mutual aid for the prevention of bankruptcy of small and medium-sized enterprises, such as the amount of premiums and the loan amount of mutual aid benefits, are to be reviewed at least every five years on the basis of the trends in and forecasts of the revenue and expenditure situation and the usage situation of the small and medium-sized enterprise bankruptcy prevention mutual aid business. machine translation, not official --- ## 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