# 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 — 第十五条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 15) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-bankruptcy-prevention-act/suppl-4301-26/art-15. 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: 第十五条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 15)（中小企業倒産防止共済法の一部改正に伴う経過措置） — address `suppl-4301-26/art-15` - Text in force since: 2020-04-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-bankruptcy-prevention-act/suppl-4301-26/art-15 - e-Gov law ID: 352AC0000000084 — never renamed. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第十五条（中小企業倒産防止共済法の一部改正に伴う経過措置） — Transitional Measures Accompanying the Partial Amendment of the Act on Mutual Relief System for the Prevention of Bankruptcies of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises caption: machine translation, not official suppl-4301-26/art-15 · https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-bankruptcy-prevention-act/suppl-4301-26/art-15 **第一項** 第二号施行日前に生じた第五条の規定による改正後の中小企業倒産防止共済法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-4301-26/art-15/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-bankruptcy-prevention-act/suppl-4301-26/art-15/par-1 With regard to the lending of mutual aid benefits relating to a situation that arose before the Item (ii) Effective Date and that is equivalent to the situation prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (2), item (iii) of the Act on Mutual Relief System for the Prevention of Bankruptcies of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises as amended by the provisions of Article 5, the provisions then in force continue to govern. machine translation, not official **第二項** 第五条の規定による改正前の中小企業倒産防止共済法（以下この項において「旧共済法」という。）の定めるところにより締結された共済契約（以下この項において「旧共済契約」という。）であって、第二号施行日前に旧共済法第七条第二項第一号に規定する一定の月分以上について掛金の納付を怠った場合における旧共済契約の解除については、なお従前の例による。 suppl-4301-26/art-15/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-bankruptcy-prevention-act/suppl-4301-26/art-15/par-2 With regard to the cancellation of a mutual aid contract concluded in accordance with the provisions of the Act on Mutual Relief System for the Prevention of Bankruptcies of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises prior to amendment by the provisions of Article 5 (hereinafter in this paragraph referred to as the "Former Act on Mutual Relief System for the Prevention of Bankruptcies of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises") (such contract being hereinafter in this paragraph referred to as a "former mutual aid contract"), where, before the Item (ii) Effective Date, premiums were not paid for the specified number of months or more prescribed in Article 7, paragraph (2), item (i) of the Former Act on Mutual Relief System for the Prevention of Bankruptcies of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises, the provisions then in force continue to govern. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-4301-26/art-15/par-1: 中小企業倒産防止共済法第二条第二項第三号 → 中小企業倒産防止共済法 第二条第二項第三号 (Article 2, paragraph (2), item (iii)), art-2/par-2/item-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-bankruptcy-prevention-act/art-2/par-2/item-3 - suppl-4301-26/art-15/par-2: この項 → 中小企業倒産防止共済法 附則第十五条第二項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 15, paragraph (2)), suppl-4301-26/art-15/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-bankruptcy-prevention-act/suppl-4301-26/art-15/par-2 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 中小企業倒産防止共済法 附則第十五条第二項（中小企業倒産防止共済法の一部改正に伴う経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-bankruptcy-prevention-act/suppl-4301-26/art-15/par-2 --- ## 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-20261106T173426-006, 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 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch sme-bankruptcy-prevention-act-20261106T173426-008, 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