第二十四条（株式会社日本政策金融公庫法及び沖縄振興開発金融公庫法の特例）
The Japan Finance Corporation may, in addition to the business prescribed in Article 11 of the Japan Finance Corporation Act (Act No. 57 of 2007), conduct the following business.
株式会社日本政策金融公庫は、株式会社日本政策金融公庫法（平成十九年法律第五十七号）第十一条に規定する業務のほか、次に掲げる業務を行うことができる。
where a specified business operator carries out management innovation jointly with all or part of its foreign affiliated corporation, etc., conducting the business of lending to that foreign affiliated corporation, etc. long-term funds that the foreign affiliated corporation, etc. needs in order to carry out an approved management innovation project overseas;
where a specified business operator carries out management capacity improvement jointly with all or part of its foreign affiliated corporation, etc., conducting the business of lending to that foreign affiliated corporation, etc. long-term funds that the foreign affiliated corporation, etc. needs in order to carry out a certified management capacity improvement project overseas;
providing a guarantee of obligations (including acts of assuming obligations that are equivalent to a guarantee of obligations; the same applies hereinafter in this paragraph and Article 63, paragraph (1)) pertaining to borrowing of long-term funds (limited to borrowing from a foreign bank or other financial institution specified by Order of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry and Ministry of Finance Order; the same applies hereinafter in this paragraph and Article 63, paragraph (1)) that a specified business operator (including, where the specified business operator carries out management innovation jointly with all or part of its foreign affiliated corporation, etc., that foreign affiliated corporation, etc.) needs in order to carry out an approved management innovation project overseas;
providing a guarantee of obligations pertaining to borrowing of long-term funds that a specified business operator (including, where the specified business operator carries out management capacity improvement jointly with all or part of its foreign affiliated corporation, etc., that foreign affiliated corporation, etc.) needs in order to carry out a certified management capacity improvement project overseas.
The business of lending funds to a foreign affiliated corporation, etc. under items (i) and (ii) of the preceding paragraph is, for the purposes of the application of the Japan Finance Corporation Act, deemed to be business under Article 11, paragraph (1), item (i) of that Act of lending the funds listed in the right-hand column of Appended Table 1, item (xiv) of that Act to the persons listed in the middle column of Appended Table 1, item (xiv) of that Act.
A guarantee of obligations under paragraph (1), items (iii) and (iv) is, for the purposes of the application of the Japan Finance Corporation Act, deemed to be business listed in the right-hand column of Appended Table 2, item (iv) of that Act under Article 11, paragraph (1), item (ii) of that Act.
In addition to the business prescribed in Article 11 of the Japan Finance Corporation Act or Article 19 of the Okinawa Development Finance Corporation Act (Act No. 31 of 1972), the Japan Finance Corporation or the Okinawa Development Finance Corporation may conduct the business of lending long-term funds that a specified business operator needs in order to carry out an approved management innovation project or a certified management capacity improvement project, to a specified business operator that carries out that project (limited to a person listed in Article 2, paragraph (5), items (i) through (iv), and excluding one that falls under a small and medium-sized enterprise prescribed in Article 2, item (iii) of the Japan Finance Corporation Act) and that carries on the specified small and medium-sized enterprise business prescribed in item (iii), (a) of that Article.
株式会社日本政策金融公庫又は沖縄振興開発金融公庫は、株式会社日本政策金融公庫法第十一条又は沖縄振興開発金融公庫法（昭和四十七年法律第三十一号）第十九条に規定する業務のほか、承認経営革新事業又は認定経営力向上事業を行う特定事業者（第二条第五項第一号から第四号までに掲げる者に限り、株式会社日本政策金融公庫法第二条第三号に規定する中小企業者に該当するものを除く。）のうち同号イに規定する中小企業特定事業を営むものに対し、当該特定事業者が承認経営革新事業又は認定経営力向上事業を行うために必要とする長期の資金を貸し付ける業務を行うことができる。
The business of lending funds to a specified business operator under the preceding paragraph is, for the purposes of the application of the Japan Finance Corporation Act or the Okinawa Development Finance Corporation Act, deemed to be, respectively, business under Article 11, paragraph (1), item (i) of the Japan Finance Corporation Act of lending the funds listed in the right-hand column of Appended Table 1, item (xiv) of that Act to the persons listed in the middle column of Appended Table 1, item (xiv) of that Act, or business under Article 19, paragraph (1), item (v) of the Okinawa Development Finance Corporation Act.
第二十五条（中小企業基盤整備機構の行う経営力向上促進業務及び事業再編投資円滑化業務）
The Organization for Small and Medium Enterprises and Regional Innovation, JAPAN, in order to promote management capacity improvement, conducts the business of guaranteeing obligations pertaining to borrowings of funds that a specified business operator, etc. (limited to a person listed in Article 2, paragraph (6), item (ii); the same applies hereinafter in this Article) requires in order to carry out a certified management capacity improvement project, and of guaranteeing obligations pertaining to corporate bonds issued by a specified business operator, etc. (limited to a company) in order to raise those funds.
中小企業基盤整備機構は、経営力向上を促進するため、特定事業者等（第二条第六項第二号に掲げる者に限る。以下この条において同じ。）が認定経営力向上事業を行うために必要とする資金の借入れに係る債務の保証及び特定事業者等（会社に限る。）が当該資金を調達するために発行する社債に係る債務の保証の業務を行う。
The Organization for Small and Medium Enterprises and Regional Innovation, JAPAN, in order to facilitate business restructuring investment, conducts the business of guaranteeing obligations pertaining to borrowings of funds that a certified business restructuring investment partnership requires in order to carry out business restructuring investment in accordance with a certified business restructuring investment plan.
中小企業基盤整備機構は、事業再編投資を円滑化するため、認定事業再編投資組合が認定事業再編投資計画に従って事業再編投資を実施するために必要な資金の借入れに係る債務の保証の業務を行う。
第二十六条（食品等の持続的な供給を実現するための食品等事業者による事業活動の促進及び食品等の取引の適正化に関する法律の特例）
The Organization for Promoting Sustainable Supply of Food, etc. designated pursuant to Article 22, paragraph (1) of the Act on the Promotion of Business Activities by Food, etc. Business Operators and Ensuring Proper Transactions of Food, etc. for Realizing a Sustainable Supply of Food, etc. (Act No. 59 of 1991) may conduct the following services in addition to the services listed in the items of Article 23 of that Act:
食品等の持続的な供給を実現するための食品等事業者による事業活動の促進及び食品等の取引の適正化に関する法律（平成三年法律第五十九号）第二十二条第一項の規定により指定された食品等持続的供給推進機構は、同法第二十三条各号に掲げる業務のほか、次に掲げる業務を行うことができる。
guaranteeing obligations pertaining to borrowings of funds necessary for an approved management innovation project or a certified management capacity improvement project carried out by a person that engages in the business of producing, manufacturing, processing or selling food, etc. (meaning food, etc. prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (1) of the Act on the Promotion of Business Activities by Food, etc. Business Operators and Ensuring Proper Transactions of Food, etc. for Realizing a Sustainable Supply of Food, etc.; referred to as a "food, etc. manufacturer, etc." in the following item);
arranging necessary funds for a food, etc. manufacturer, etc. that carries out an approved management innovation project or a certified management capacity improvement project;
providing services incidental to those set forth in the preceding two items.
前二号に掲げる業務に附帯する業務を行うこと。
Where the services of the Organization for Promoting Sustainable Supply of Food, etc. are conducted pursuant to the preceding paragraph, with regard to the application of the provisions of the Act on the Promotion of Business Activities by Food, etc. Business Operators and Ensuring Proper Transactions of Food, etc. for Realizing a Sustainable Supply of Food, etc. listed in the left-hand column of the following table, the terms listed in the middle column of the same table in those provisions are deemed to be replaced with the terms listed in the right-hand column of the same table.
| Article 24, paragraph (1) | the services listed in item (i) of the preceding Article | the services listed in item (i) of the preceding Article and the services listed in Article 26, paragraph (1), item (i) of the Act on Strengthening the Management of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises, etc. (Act No. 18 of 1999; hereinafter referred to as the "SME Management Strengthening Act") |
| Article 25, paragraph (1) | the services listed in Article 23, item (i) | the services listed in Article 23, item (i) and the services listed in Article 26, paragraph (1), item (i) of the SME Management Strengthening Act |
| Article 29, paragraph (1), Article 30 and Article 31, paragraph (1), item (i) | the services listed in the items of Article 23 | the services listed in the items of Article 23 or the services listed in the items of Article 26, paragraph (1) of the SME Management Strengthening Act |
| Article 31, paragraph (1), item (iii) | this Section | this Section or the SME Management Strengthening Act |
| Article 57, item (ii) | Article 29, paragraph (1) | Article 29, paragraph (1) as applied pursuant to Article 26, paragraph (2) of the SME Management Strengthening Act with the terms replaced |
| Article 57, item (iii) | Article 30 | Article 30 as applied pursuant to Article 26, paragraph (2) of the SME Management Strengthening Act with the terms replaced |
前項の規定により食品等持続的供給推進機構の業務が行われる場合には、次の表の上欄に掲げる食品等の持続的な供給を実現するための食品等事業者による事業活動の促進及び食品等の取引の適正化に関する法律の規定の適用については、これらの規定中同表の中欄に掲げる字句は、同表の下欄に掲げる字句とする。
| 第二十四条第一項 | 前条第一号に掲げる業務 | 前条第一号に掲げる業務及び中小企業等経営強化法（平成十一年法律第十八号。以下「中小強化法」という。）第二十六条第一項第一号に掲げる業務 |
| 第二十五条第一項 | 第二十三条第一号に掲げる業務 | 第二十三条第一号に掲げる業務及び中小強化法第二十六条第一項第一号に掲げる業務 |
| 第二十九条第一項、第三十条及び第三十一条第一項第一号 | 第二十三条各号に掲げる業務 | 第二十三条各号に掲げる業務又は中小強化法第二十六条第一項各号に掲げる業務 |
| 第三十一条第一項第三号 | この節 | この節若しくは中小強化法 |
| 第五十七条第二号 | 第二十九条第一項 | 中小強化法第二十六条第二項の規定により読み替えて適用する第二十九条第一項 |
| 第五十七条第三号 | 第三十条 | 中小強化法第二十六条第二項の規定により読み替えて適用する第三十条 |
Article 27Succession to Status Based on Specified Permission, etc.
第二十七条（特定許認可等に基づく地位の承継等）
Where a certified management capacity improvement plan (limited to one that states matters concerning business succession, etc.) states the status of a transferring specified business operator, etc. based on a specified permission, etc. under Article 17, paragraph (4), item (i), and business succession, etc. is carried out in accordance with that certified management capacity improvement plan, the succeeding specified business operator, etc. succeeds to the status of the transferring specified business operator, etc. based on that specified permission, etc., notwithstanding the provisions of the laws and regulations that form the basis for that specified permission, etc.
認定経営力向上計画（事業承継等に係る事項の記載があるものに限る。）に第十七条第四項第一号の特定許認可等に基づく被承継等特定事業者等の地位が記載されている場合において、当該認定経営力向上計画に従って事業承継等が行われたときは、承継等特定事業者等は、当該特定許認可等の根拠となる法令の規定にかかわらず、当該特定許認可等に基づく被承継等特定事業者等の地位を承継する。
When a succeeding specified business operator, etc. has carried out business succession, etc. in accordance with that certified management capacity improvement plan, it must, without delay, report to that effect to the competent minister, attaching a document certifying that fact.
Where a succeeding specified business operator, etc. has succeeded to the status of a transferring specified business operator, etc. based on a specified permission, etc. pursuant to paragraph (1) and the competent minister has received the report under the preceding paragraph, the competent minister is to notify the administrative agency pertaining to that specified permission, etc. of the matters pertaining to that report, as provided by order of the competent ministry.
In addition to what is provided for in this Act, matters necessary for the succession to a status based on a specified permission, etc. are specified by Cabinet Order.
この法律に定めるもののほか、特定許認可等に基づく地位の承継に関し必要な事項は、政令で定める。
第二十八条（中小企業等協同組合法及び中小企業団体の組織に関する法律の特例）
Where a specified business operator, in accordance with a certified management capacity improvement plan (limited to one that states matters concerning business succession, etc. (limited to those pertaining to the measure listed in Article 2, paragraph (10), item (ix))), establishes the business cooperative, enterprise association and cooperative partnership pertaining to that certification by the day on which two months have elapsed from the date of that certification, with regard to the application of Article 24, paragraph (1) of the Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Cooperatives Act (Act No. 181 of 1949) and Article 5-15, paragraph (1) of the Act on the Organization of Small and Medium-sized Enterprise Association (Act No. 185 of 1957), the term "four or more persons" in these provisions is deemed to be replaced with "three or more persons".
specified business operatormachine translation
「特定事業者」
A company or individual whose main business is in manufacturing, construction, transport or most other industries and that has no more than 500 regular employees, in wholesale no more than 400, in retail or services no more than 300, or in an industry a Cabinet Order (政令) names no more than the number it sets; an enterprise association (企業組合); a cooperative partnership (協業組合); a business cooperative (事業協同組合) or other union set up under a special law, or a federation of them, that a Cabinet Order specifies; or a general incorporated association (一般社団法人) whose direct or indirect members are any of these and that meets requirements a Cabinet Order sets.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (5)· applies throughout the law
specified business operator, etc.machine translation
「特定事業者等」
A specified business operator (特定事業者), or a company, other corporation a Cabinet Order (政令) names or individual with no more regular employees than a number a Cabinet Order sets.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (6)· applies throughout the law
management innovationmachine translation
「経営革新」
A business operator considerably improving its management by carrying on new business activities (新事業活動).
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (9)· applies throughout the law
business succession, etc.machine translation
「事業承継等」
Any of the measures Article 2, paragraph (10) lists through which a business operator obtains or is provided with another business operator's management resources: an absorption-type or consolidation-type merger, an absorption-type or incorporation-type company split, a share exchange, share transfer or share delivery between specified business operators, etc. (特定事業者等); taking over a business or assets from another such operator; acquiring shares or equity in another such operator that makes it a related business; or setting up a business cooperative (事業協同組合), enterprise association (企業組合) or cooperative partnership (協業組合).
Short name set inArticle 2, paragraph (10)
management capacity improvementmachine translation
「経営力向上」
A business operator strengthening its management ability and improving its management by bringing in, and running its business with, ways of making advanced use of the management resources it already has, or of those it obtains from or is provided by another business operator through business succession, etc. (事業承継等) — such as training people with useful knowledge or skills, using the results of analysing its finances or information on demand for goods and services, or building information systems to work more efficiently.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (10)· applies throughout the law
succeeding specified business operator, etc.machine translation
「承継等特定事業者等」
A specified business operator, etc. (特定事業者等) that carries out business succession, etc. (事業承継等), which for this term and the provisions Article 2, paragraph (11) names covers only an absorption-type or consolidation-type merger, an absorption-type or incorporation-type company split, or taking over a business.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (11)· applies throughout the law
transferring specified business operator, etc.machine translation
「被承継等特定事業者等」
The other specified business operator, etc. (特定事業者等) from which a succeeding specified business operator, etc. (承継等特定事業者等) carries out business succession, etc. (事業承継等).
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (12)· applies throughout the law
business restructuring investmentmachine translation
「事業再編投資」
An investment business that an investment limited partnership (投資事業有限責任組合) runs in specified business operators, etc. (特定事業者等), meeting requirements an Order of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (経済産業省令) sets — such as being mainly in businesses improving their management capacity through business succession, etc. (事業承継等) — and that such an Order specifies as certain to come with guidance on making advanced use of those businesses' management resources.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (13)· applies throughout the law
Organization for Small and Medium Enterprises and Regional Innovation, JAPANmachine translation
「中小企業基盤整備機構」
Short name for the Organization for Small and Medium Enterprises and Regional Innovation, JAPAN (独立行政法人中小企業基盤整備機構), an incorporated administrative agency (独立行政法人), which under Article 12 guarantees the loans and corporate bonds that certified new small and medium-sized enterprises, etc. take on to fund their certified projects for developing new business fields using outside highly skilled personnel.
Short name set inArticle 12, paragraph (1)
foreign affiliated corporation, etc.machine translation
「外国関係法人等」
In Chapter III, a corporation or other body set up under the laws of a foreign country (including one about to be set up) with which a specified business operator (特定事業者) has a relationship that an Order of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (経済産業省令) specifies as one in which the operator is regarded as in effect controlling its management.
Defined inArticle 14, paragraph (1)· applies only in this chapter
specified permission, etc.machine translation
「特定許認可等」
A permission, approval, licence or other disposition granting a benefit (許認可等) as defined in Article 2, item (iii) of the Administrative Procedure Act, that a Cabinet Order (政令) specifies as one where passing the status held under it from the transferring business (被承継等特定事業者等) to the succeeding business (承継等特定事業者等) particularly helps management capacity improvement go smoothly.
Defined inArticle 17, paragraph (4), item (i)
certified management capacity improvement planmachine translation
「認定経営力向上計画」
A management capacity improvement plan (経営力向上計画) certified under Article 17, paragraph (1), as changed where a change has been certified.
Short name set inArticle 18, paragraph (2)
certified business restructuring investment partnershipmachine translation
「認定事業再編投資組合」
An investment limited partnership (投資事業有限責任組合) whose business restructuring investment plan (事業再編投資計画) the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry (経済産業大臣) has certified under Article 20, paragraph (1).
Short name set inArticle 21, paragraph (1)
certified business restructuring investment planmachine translation
「認定事業再編投資計画」
A business restructuring investment plan (事業再編投資計画) certified under Article 20, paragraph (1), as changed where a change has been certified.
Short name set inArticle 21, paragraph (2)
approved management innovation projectmachine translation
「承認経営革新事業」
A project for management innovation (経営革新) carried out under an approved management innovation plan (承認経営革新計画).
Defined inArticle 22, paragraph (1)
certified management capacity improvement projectmachine translation
「認定経営力向上事業」
A project for management capacity improvement (経営力向上) carried out under a certified management capacity improvement plan (認定経営力向上計画), including a prior investigation for business succession, etc. (事業承継等事前調査) where the plan covers one.
Defined inArticle 22, paragraph (1)· applies only in this paragraph and in Article 25, paragraph (1); and Chapter 6
certified management capacity improvement projectmachine translation
「認定経営力向上事業」
In Section 3 of Chapter III, other than Article 25, paragraph (1), a project for management capacity improvement (経営力向上) carried out under a certified management capacity improvement plan (認定経営力向上計画).
Defined inArticle 23, paragraph (1), item (i)· applies only in this section, except in Article 25, paragraph (1)
food, etc. manufacturer, etc.machine translation
「食品等製造業者等」
In Article 26, paragraph (1), a person in the business of producing, manufacturing, processing or selling food, etc. (食品等) as defined in Article 2, paragraph (1) of the Act on the Promotion of Business Activities by Food, etc. Business Operators and Ensuring Proper Transactions of Food, etc. for Realizing a Sustainable Supply of Food, etc.
Short name set inArticle 26, paragraph (1), item (i)· applies only in this provision and in Article 26, paragraph (1), item (ii)
SME Management Strengthening Actmachine translation
「中小強化法」
Short name for the Act on Strengthening the Management of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises, etc. (Act No. 18 of 1999), used in the provisions of the Act on the Promotion of Business Activities by Food, etc. Business Operators and Ensuring Proper Transactions of Food, etc. for Realizing a Sustainable Supply of Food, etc. as Article 26, paragraph (2) reads them.
Short name set inArticle 26, paragraph (2)
administrative agencymachine translation
「行政庁」
The authority that approves a management innovation plan (経営革新計画), which Article 72, paragraph (1) sets by the kind of plan: the governor of the prefecture where the main office is, for a plan an individual specified business operator (個別特定事業者) draws up alone; the governor of the prefecture, for one drawn up alone by a district association (地区組合) whose district lies within that prefecture; the governor of the one prefecture concerned, for a joint plan whose representatives all belong to that prefecture as item (iii) sets out; and otherwise the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry (経済産業大臣) together with the minister in charge of the business the plan covers.
Defined inArticle 72, paragraph (1)· applies throughout the law