Article 66Measures to Contribute to Business Continuity Enhancement by Small and Medium-sized Enterprises
第六十六条（中小企業者の事業継続力強化に資するための措置）
The State, local governments, consigning business operators, financial institutions related to the government, commercial associations, chambers of commerce, federations of small business associations and other persons are to endeavor, taking the basic policy into consideration, to take necessary measures, such as advice, training and provision of information regarding business continuity enhancement carried out by small and medium-sized enterprises, in order to contribute to the business continuity enhancement of small and medium-sized enterprises.
The State must endeavor to take necessary measures, such as advice, toward local governments, financial institutions related to the government, commercial associations, chambers of commerce, federations of small business associations and other persons so that small and medium-sized enterprises can smoothly receive provision of information on natural disasters expected to occur in the areas where they are located.
国は、中小企業者がその所在する地域において発生が想定される自然災害についての情報の提供を円滑に受けられるよう、地方公共団体、政府関係金融機関、商工会、商工会議所、中小企業団体中央会その他の者に対し、助言その他の必要な措置を講ずるよう努めなければならない。
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small and medium-sized enterprisemachine translation
「中小企業者」
A company or individual whose main business is in an industry and that is within that industry's size limit — a company with stated capital or total contributions of no more than 300 million yen, or a company or individual with no more than 300 regular employees, in manufacturing, construction, transport and most other industries; 100 million yen or 100 employees in wholesale; 50 million yen or 100 employees in services; 50 million yen or 50 employees in retail; or the limits a Cabinet Order (政令) sets for the industries it names — or an enterprise association (企業組合), a cooperative partnership (協業組合), or a business cooperative (事業協同組合), commercial and industrial association (商工組合) or other union set up under a special law, or a federation of them, that a Cabinet Order specifies.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1)· applies throughout the law
business continuity enhancementmachine translation
「事業継続力強化」
A business operator's strengthening of its ability to keep operating when a natural disaster or a serious failure of communications or other infrastructure its business relies on (自然災害等) occurs, by taking measures in advance in light of the effect such an event would have — deciding how to respond, installing equipment that lessens the effect, taking out non-life insurance, working together with others concerned and the like — and by organising itself, holding drills and taking other steps to make those measures work.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (15)· applies throughout the law
basic policymachine translation
「基本方針」
The basic policy on strengthening the management of small and medium-sized enterprises, etc. that the competent ministers (主務大臣) must set under Article 3, covering new businesses, management innovation and management capacity improvement, the introduction of advanced equipment and business continuity enhancement.
Short name set inArticle 3, paragraph (1)
consigning business operatormachine translation
「委託事業者」
A consigning business operator as defined in Article 2, paragraph (4) of the Act on the Promotion of Small and Medium-Sized Contractor Enterprises: a business that, as its trade, entrusts manufacturing, repair, the creation of information products, services or transport work (製造委託等) to a small and medium-sized enterprise smaller than itself — for a corporation, smaller in stated capital or total contributions or in regular employees; for an individual, smaller in regular employees.
Defined inArticle 3, paragraph (2), item (iv), (a), (4)