# 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 — 第五条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 5) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-bankruptcy-prevention-act/suppl-4221-25/art-5. 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: 第五条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 5)（時効に関する経過措置） — address `suppl-4221-25/art-5` - Text in force since: 2020-04-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-bankruptcy-prevention-act/suppl-4221-25/art-5 - 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. --- ### 第五条（時効に関する経過措置） — Transitional Measures Concerning Prescription caption: machine translation, not official suppl-4221-25/art-5 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-bankruptcy-prevention-act/suppl-4221-25/art-5 **第一項** この法律の施行前に生じた申込金の返還を受ける権利及び附則第三条の規定によりなお従前の例によることとされる場合におけるこの法律の施行後に生じた申込金の返還を受ける権利の消滅時効については、なお従前の例による。 suppl-4221-25/art-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-bankruptcy-prevention-act/suppl-4221-25/art-5/par-1 With regard to extinctive prescription of the right to receive the return of application money that arose prior to the enforcement of this Act, and of the right to receive the return of application money that arose after the enforcement of this Act in cases where the provisions then in force are to continue to govern pursuant to the provisions of Article 3 of the Supplementary Provisions, the provisions then in force continue to govern. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-4221-25/art-5/par-1: 附則第三条 → 中小企業倒産防止共済法 附則第三条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 3), suppl-4221-25/art-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-bankruptcy-prevention-act/suppl-4221-25/art-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-20261106T173426-007, 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