Supplementary Provisions, Article 1Effective Date
第一条（施行期日）
This Act comes into effect from the time of establishment of the Organization for Small and Medium Enterprises and Regional Innovation, JAPAN (hereinafter referred to as the "Organization"); provided, however, that the provisions set forth in the following items come into effect as of the date specified in the respective items.
この法律は、独立行政法人中小企業基盤整備機構（以下「機構」という。）の成立の時から施行する。ただし、次の各号に掲げる規定は、当該各号に定める日から施行する。
the Organizationmachine translation
「機構」
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; Act No. 146 of 2002, apart from the provisions listed in item (i) of Article 1 of its supplementary provisions (附則), came into effect at the time the Organization was established.
Short name set inSupplementary Provisions, Article 1, paragraph (1)
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
A public body the State sets up by law, as an incorporated administrative agency (独立行政法人) under its own Act and the Act on General Rules for Incorporated Administrative Agencies (独立行政法人通則法), whose purpose is to lay the groundwork for livelier business activity by small and medium-sized enterprises (中小企業者) and other businesses, through advice and training, loans, investment, grants, debt guarantees, developing facilities in the regions, running mutual aid schemes and other activities (Act on the Organization for Small & Medium Enterprises and Regional Innovation, Japan, Independent Administrative Agency (独立行政法人中小企業基盤整備機構法), Articles 3 and 4). Among its duties, it runs the small enterprise mutual relief scheme under the Small Enterprise Mutual Relief Projects Act and the bankruptcy prevention mutual relief scheme under the Act on Mutual Relief System for the Prevention of Bankruptcies of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (Article 15, paragraph (1), items (xvi) and (xvii) of the Organization's own Act).
Written by AI using Act on the Organization for Small & Medium Enterprises and Regional Innovation, Japan, Independent Administrative Agency, Arts. 3, 4, 15 as a reference.