# 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 — 第二条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 2) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-bankruptcy-prevention-act/suppl-4221-25/art-2. 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: 第二条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 2)（共済金を貸し付ける事態に関する経過措置） — address `suppl-4221-25/art-2` - Text in force since: 2020-04-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-bankruptcy-prevention-act/suppl-4221-25/art-2 - 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. --- ### 第二条（共済金を貸し付ける事態に関する経過措置） — Transitional Measures Concerning Situations in Which Mutual Aid Benefits Are Lent caption: machine translation, not official suppl-4221-25/art-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-bankruptcy-prevention-act/suppl-4221-25/art-2 **第一項** 第二条第二項に一号を加える改正規定の施行前に生じたこの法律による改正後の第二条第二項第三号に規定する事態に相当する事態に係る共済金の貸付けについては、なお従前の例による。 suppl-4221-25/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-bankruptcy-prevention-act/suppl-4221-25/art-2/par-1 With regard to the lending of mutual aid benefits relating to a situation that arose before the enforcement of the provisions amending Article 2, paragraph (2) by adding one item and that is equivalent to the situation prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (2), item (iii) as amended by this Act, the provisions then in force continue to govern. machine translation, not official ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 中小企業倒産防止共済法 附則第一条第一項第一号（施行期日） — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-bankruptcy-prevention-act/suppl-4221-25/art-1/par-1/item-1 --- ## 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-20261106T173426-007, translated 2026-11-07 - claude-sonnet-5-5, corrected on review by claude-opus-5-5 — Machine translation corrected on review, batch sme-bankruptcy-prevention-act-20261106T173426-007, 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