# 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 — 第四条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 4) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-bankruptcy-prevention-act/suppl-4221-25/art-4. 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: 第四条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 4)（共済金の貸付けに際して掛金の合計額から控除する額に関する経過措置） — address `suppl-4221-25/art-4` - 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-4 - 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. --- ### 第四条（共済金の貸付けに際して掛金の合計額から控除する額に関する経過措置） — Transitional Measures Concerning the Amount to Be Deducted from the Total Amount of Premiums upon a Loan of Mutual Aid Benefits caption: machine translation, not official suppl-4221-25/art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-bankruptcy-prevention-act/suppl-4221-25/art-4 **第一項** 第九条第二項第三号の改正規定の施行後に行われる貸付けの請求のうち、倒産の発生の日からこの法律の公布の日の前日までの間において掛金月額の増加の効力が生じた共済契約に係るものに対する共済金の貸付額については、なお従前の例による。 suppl-4221-25/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-bankruptcy-prevention-act/suppl-4221-25/art-4/par-1 With regard to the loan amount of mutual aid benefits for a request for a loan made after the enforcement of the provisions amending Article 9, paragraph (2), item (iii), where the request relates to a mutual aid contract for which an increase in the monthly premium took effect during the period from the date of occurrence of the bankruptcy until the day preceding the date of promulgation of 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 - 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