# 小規模企業共済法 / Small Enterprise Mutual Relief Projects Act — 第十条 (Article 10) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/small-enterprise-mutual-aid-act/art-10. 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: 小規模企業共済法 (Small Enterprise Mutual Relief Projects Act), 昭和四十年法律第百二号 - English title "Small Enterprise Mutual Relief Projects Act": 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: 第十条 (Article 10)（遺族の範囲及び順位） — address `art-10` - Text in force since: 2021-06-17 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/small-enterprise-mutual-aid-act/art-10 - e-Gov law ID: 340AC0000000102 — never renamed. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第十条（遺族の範囲及び順位） — Scope and Order of the Surviving Family Members caption: machine translation, not official art-10 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/small-enterprise-mutual-aid-act/art-10 **第一項** 第九条第一項に規定する共済金の支給を受けるべき遺族は、次の各号に掲げる者とする。 art-10/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/small-enterprise-mutual-aid-act/art-10/par-1 The surviving family members entitled to receive payment of the mutual aid benefits prescribed in Article 9, paragraph (1) are the persons set out in the following items: machine translation, not official **一** 配偶者（届出をしていないが、共済契約者の死亡の当時事実上婚姻関係と同様の事情にあつたものを含む。） art-10/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/small-enterprise-mutual-aid-act/art-10/par-1/item-1 a spouse (including a person who has not filed a notification of marriage but who, at the time of the mutual aid policyholder's death, was in a situation equivalent to a marital relationship in fact); machine translation, not official **二** 子、父母、孫、祖父母及び兄弟姉妹で共済契約者の死亡の当時主としてその収入によつて生計を維持していたもの art-10/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/small-enterprise-mutual-aid-act/art-10/par-1/item-2 children, parents, grandchildren, grandparents and siblings who, at the time of the mutual aid policyholder's death, were mainly dependent on the policyholder's income for their livelihood; machine translation, not official **三** 前号に掲げる者のほか、共済契約者の死亡の当時主としてその収入によつて生計を維持していた親族 art-10/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/small-enterprise-mutual-aid-act/art-10/par-1/item-3 in addition to the persons set out in the preceding item, relatives who, at the time of the mutual aid policyholder's death, were mainly dependent on the policyholder's income for their livelihood; machine translation, not official **四** 子、父母、孫、祖父母及び兄弟姉妹で第二号に該当しないもの art-10/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/small-enterprise-mutual-aid-act/art-10/par-1/item-4 children, parents, grandchildren, grandparents and siblings who do not fall under item (ii); machine translation, not official **五** 孫の子及び兄弟姉妹の子のうち第三号に該当しないもの art-10/par-1/item-5 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/small-enterprise-mutual-aid-act/art-10/par-1/item-5 children of grandchildren and children of siblings who do not fall under item (iii). machine translation, not official **第二項** 共済金の支給を受けるべき遺族の順位は、前項各号の順位により、同項第二号、第四号及び第五号に掲げる者のうちにあつては当該各号に掲げる順位による。この場合において、父母については養父母、実父母の順とし、祖父母については養父母の養父母、養父母の実父母、実父母の養父母、実父母の実父母の順とする。 art-10/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/small-enterprise-mutual-aid-act/art-10/par-2 The order of priority among the surviving family members entitled to receive payment of mutual aid benefits is the order of the items of the preceding paragraph, and, among the persons set out in items (ii), (iv) and (v) of that paragraph, the order in which they are listed in the relevant item; in this case, for parents, the order is adoptive parents and then biological parents, and for grandparents, the order is the adoptive parents of adoptive parents, the biological parents of adoptive parents, the adoptive parents of biological parents, and then the biological parents of biological parents. machine translation, not official **第三項** 前項の規定により共済金の支給を受けるべき遺族に同順位者が二人以上あるときは、共済金は、その人数によつて等分して支給する。 art-10/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/small-enterprise-mutual-aid-act/art-10/par-3 Where there are two or more persons of the same rank among the surviving family members entitled to receive payment of mutual aid benefits under the preceding paragraph, the mutual aid benefits are to be paid in equal shares divided by the number of those persons. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-10/par-1: 第九条第一項 → 小規模企業共済法 第九条第一項 (Article 9, paragraph (1)), art-9/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/small-enterprise-mutual-aid-act/art-9/par-1 - art-10/par-1/item-3: 前号 → 小規模企業共済法 第十条第一項第二号 (Article 10, paragraph (1), item (ii)), art-10/par-1/item-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/small-enterprise-mutual-aid-act/art-10/par-1/item-2 - art-10/par-1/item-4: 第二号 → 小規模企業共済法 第十条第一項第二号 (Article 10, paragraph (1), item (ii)), art-10/par-1/item-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/small-enterprise-mutual-aid-act/art-10/par-1/item-2 - art-10/par-1/item-5: 第三号 → 小規模企業共済法 第十条第一項第三号 (Article 10, paragraph (1), item (iii)), art-10/par-1/item-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/small-enterprise-mutual-aid-act/art-10/par-1/item-3 - art-10/par-2: 前項 → 小規模企業共済法 第十条第一項 (Article 10, paragraph (1)), art-10/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/small-enterprise-mutual-aid-act/art-10/par-1 - art-10/par-2: 同項第二号 → 小規模企業共済法 第十条第一項第二号 (Article 10, paragraph (1), item (ii)), art-10/par-1/item-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/small-enterprise-mutual-aid-act/art-10/par-1/item-2 - art-10/par-2: 第四号 → 小規模企業共済法 第十条第一項第四号 (Article 10, paragraph (1), item (iv)), art-10/par-1/item-4 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/small-enterprise-mutual-aid-act/art-10/par-1/item-4 - art-10/par-2: 第五号 → 小規模企業共済法 第十条第一項第五号 (Article 10, paragraph (1), item (v)), art-10/par-1/item-5 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/small-enterprise-mutual-aid-act/art-10/par-1/item-5 - art-10/par-3: 前項 → 小規模企業共済法 第十条第二項 (Article 10, paragraph (2)), art-10/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/small-enterprise-mutual-aid-act/art-10/par-2 ## Cited by 6 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 小規模企業共済法 第十条第一項第三号（遺族の範囲及び順位） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/small-enterprise-mutual-aid-act/art-10/par-1/item-3 - 小規模企業共済法 第十条第一項第四号（遺族の範囲及び順位） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/small-enterprise-mutual-aid-act/art-10/par-1/item-4 - 小規模企業共済法 第十条第一項第五号（遺族の範囲及び順位） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/small-enterprise-mutual-aid-act/art-10/par-1/item-5 - 小規模企業共済法 第十条第二項（遺族の範囲及び順位） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/small-enterprise-mutual-aid-act/art-10/par-2 - 小規模企業共済法 第十条第三項（遺族の範囲及び順位） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/small-enterprise-mutual-aid-act/art-10/par-3 - 小規模企業共済法 第十一条第一項（欠格） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/small-enterprise-mutual-aid-act/art-11/par-1 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 小規模企業共済法 — the text in force from 2021-06-17 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/340AC0000000102/20210617_503AC0000000070), retrieved 2026-11-06 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — 小規模企業共済法 — its English title as the Ministry of Justice's translation database lists it (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/846), retrieved 2026-09-18 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch small-enterprise-mutual-aid-act-20261106T173426-003, translated 2026-11-07 - This site's parser, version 225 — 小規模企業共済法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-06