# 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 — 第八条 (Article 8) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-bankruptcy-prevention-act/art-8. 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: 第八条 (Article 8)（掛金月額の変更） — address `art-8` - Text in force since: 2020-04-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-bankruptcy-prevention-act/art-8 - 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. --- ### 第八条（掛金月額の変更） — Change of Monthly Premium caption: machine translation, not official art-8 · https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-bankruptcy-prevention-act/art-8 **第一項** 機構は、共済契約者から掛金月額の増加の申込みがあつたときは、これを承諾しなければならない。 art-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-bankruptcy-prevention-act/art-8/par-1 When a mutual aid policyholder applies to increase the monthly premium, the Organization must accept the application. machine translation, not official **第二項** 機構は、共済契約者からの掛金月額の減少の申込みについては、経済産業省令で定める場合を除き、これを承諾してはならない。 art-8/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-bankruptcy-prevention-act/art-8/par-2 With regard to an application from a mutual aid policyholder to decrease the monthly premium, the Organization must not accept it, except in cases specified by Order of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry. machine translation, not official **第三項** 前二項の申込みは、増加後又は減少後の掛金月額を明らかにしてしなければならない。 art-8/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-bankruptcy-prevention-act/art-8/par-3 An application under the preceding two paragraphs must be made by clarifying the monthly premium after the increase or decrease. machine translation, not official **第四項** 第六条の規定は、掛金月額の増加又は減少について準用する。 art-8/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-bankruptcy-prevention-act/art-8/par-4 The provisions of Article 6 apply mutatis mutandis to an increase or decrease in the monthly premium. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-8/par-3: 前二項 → 中小企業倒産防止共済法 第八条第一項 (Article 8, paragraph (1)), art-8/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-bankruptcy-prevention-act/art-8/par-1 - art-8/par-3: 前二項 → 中小企業倒産防止共済法 第八条第二項 (Article 8, paragraph (2)), art-8/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-bankruptcy-prevention-act/art-8/par-2 - art-8/par-4: 第六条 → 中小企業倒産防止共済法 第六条 (Article 6), art-6 — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-bankruptcy-prevention-act/art-6 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 中小企業倒産防止共済法 第八条第三項（掛金月額の変更） — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-bankruptcy-prevention-act/art-8/par-3 --- ## 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-20261106T173426-002, 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