Supplementary Provisions, Article 8
第八条
A management innovation plan prescribed in Article 14, paragraph (1) of the Former SME Management Strengthening Act for which approval under Article 14, paragraph (1) of the Former SME Management Strengthening Act (including approval of a change under Article 15, paragraph (1) of the Former SME Management Strengthening Act) is actually held at the time this Act comes into effect is deemed to be a management innovation plan prescribed in Article 14, paragraph (1) of the Act on Strengthening the Management of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises, etc. as amended by the provisions of Article 4 (hereinafter referred to in this Article and the following Article as the "New SME Management Strengthening Act") for which approval under Article 14, paragraph (1) of the New SME Management Strengthening Act has been obtained.
A small and medium-sized enterprise prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (1) of the Act on Strengthening the Management of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises, etc. (excluding one that falls under a specified business operator prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (5) of the New SME Management Strengthening Act (hereinafter referred to in this paragraph as a "specified business operator")) is, until March 31, 2023, deemed to be a specified business operator, and the provisions of the New SME Management Strengthening Act concerning management innovation (meaning management innovation prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (9) of the Act on Strengthening the Management of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises, etc.) apply to it.
中小企業等経営強化法第二条第一項に規定する中小企業者（新中小強化法第二条第五項に規定する特定事業者（以下この項において「特定事業者」という。）に該当するものを除く。）については、令和五年三月三十一日までの間は、特定事業者とみなして、新中小強化法の経営革新（中小企業等経営強化法第二条第九項に規定する経営革新をいう。）に関する規定を適用する。
With regard to an application for approval under Article 14, paragraph (1) of the New SME Management Strengthening Act that was filed by a small and medium-sized enterprise prescribed in the preceding paragraph by the day prescribed in the preceding paragraph (hereinafter referred to in this Article as the "specified day") and for which no disposition as to whether to grant the approval has been made on the specified day, the provisions then in force continue to govern with respect to the disposition of approval.
前項に規定する日（以下この条において「特定日」という。）までに同項に規定する中小企業者がした新中小強化法第十四条第一項の承認の申請であって、特定日においてその承認をするかどうかの処分がされていないものについての承認の処分については、なお従前の例による。
With regard to a management innovation plan prescribed in Article 14, paragraph (1) of the New SME Management Strengthening Act for which approval under Article 14, paragraph (1) of the New SME Management Strengthening Act is actually held on the specified day (limited to one pertaining to a small and medium-sized enterprise prescribed in paragraph (2)), and a management innovation plan prescribed in Article 14, paragraph (1) of the New SME Management Strengthening Act for which approval under Article 14, paragraph (1) of the New SME Management Strengthening Act has been obtained on or after the day following the specified day with the provisions then in force continuing to govern pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the approval of a change to the plan and the rescission of approval, the special provisions of the Small and Medium-sized Enterprise Credit Insurance Act (Act No. 264 of 1950), the special provisions of the Small and Medium-sized Enterprise Investment Business Corporation Act (Act No. 101 of 1963), the special provisions of the Japan Finance Corporation Act (Act No. 57 of 2007) and the Okinawa Development Finance Corporation Act (Act No. 31 of 1972), the special provisions of the Act on Rationalization of Distribution of Food, etc. and Proper Transactions (Act No. 59 of 1991), and the collection of reports, the provisions then in force continue to govern.
特定日において現に新中小強化法第十四条第一項の承認を受けている同項に規定する経営革新計画（第二項に規定する中小企業者に係るものに限る。）及び前項の規定によりなお従前の例により特定日の翌日以後に新中小強化法第十四条第一項の承認を受けた同項に規定する経営革新計画についての計画の変更の承認及び承認の取消し、中小企業信用保険法（昭和二十五年法律第二百六十四号）の特例、中小企業投資育成株式会社法（昭和三十八年法律第百一号）の特例、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）及び沖縄振興開発金融公庫法（昭和四十七年法律第三十一号）の特例、食品等の流通の合理化及び取引の適正化に関する法律（平成三年法律第五十九号）の特例並びに報告の徴収については、なお従前の例による。
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
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
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
management innovation planmachine translation
「経営革新計画」
A plan for management innovation (経営革新) that a specified business operator (特定事業者) draws up, alone or with others, and submits to the administrative agency (行政庁) to be approved as appropriate under Article 14, including one carried out with a union, federation or company it is to set up, by a company formed through its merger, or together with its foreign affiliated corporations, etc. (外国関係法人等).
Short name set inArticle 14, paragraph (1)
Former SME Management Strengthening Actmachine translation
「旧中小強化法」
In Article 7, Article 8, paragraph (1) and Article 9, paragraph (1) of the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 70 of 2021, the Act on Strengthening the Management of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises, etc. as it stood before Article 4 of Act No. 70 of 2021 amended it, leaving aside the amendments that item (iv) of Article 1 of those supplementary provisions lists.
Short name set inSupplementary Provisions, Article 7, paragraph (1)· applies only in this provision and in Supplementary Provisions, Article 8, paragraph (1); and Supplementary Provisions, Article 9, paragraph (1)
New SME Management Strengthening Actmachine translation
「新中小強化法」
This Act as amended by Article 4 of Act No. 70 of 2021.
Short name set inSupplementary Provisions, Article 8, paragraph (1)· applies only in this article and in Supplementary Provisions, Article 9
specified business operatormachine translation
「特定事業者」
In Article 8, paragraph (2) of the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 70 of 2021, a specified business operator as defined in Article 2, paragraph (5) of the Act on Strengthening the Management of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises, etc. as Act No. 70 of 2021 amended it; until 31 March 2023 a small and medium-sized enterprise (中小企業者) that was not one was treated as one for the provisions on management innovation (経営革新).
Short name set inSupplementary Provisions, Article 8, paragraph (2)· applies only in this paragraph
specified daymachine translation
「特定日」
In Article 8 of the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 70 of 2021, 31 March 2023, the last day on which a small and medium-sized enterprise (中小企業者) that is not a specified business operator (特定事業者) is treated as one for the provisions on management innovation (経営革新).
Short name set inSupplementary Provisions, Article 8, paragraph (3)· applies only in this article