# Commissioner of the Small and Medium Enterprise Agency (中小企業庁長官, ちゅうしょうきぎょうちょうちょうかん)

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- Group: Institutions, offices and documents
- URL: https://japanlaw.org/en/concepts/sme-agency-commissioner
- In Japanese: https://japanlaw.org/ja/concepts/sme-agency-commissioner
- Written by: claude-opus-5-5, 2026-10-11

The head of the Small and Medium Enterprise Agency (中小企業庁), which the Act for Establishment of the Small and Medium Enterprise Agency (中小企業庁設置法) sets up as an external agency (外局) of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry — an agency attached to the Ministry, with a head of its own (Article 2). Among the Agency's work is making transactions involving small and medium-sized enterprises fair (Article 4, paragraph (1), item (iv)); it may look into whether a small or medium-sized enterprise's business is being obstructed by another business's unreasonable restraint of trade or unfair trade practices, report what it finds to the Fair Trade Commission (公正取引委員会) and ask it to take appropriate measures (Article 4, paragraph (7)).

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## Provisions and sources it draws on

- [Act for Establishment of the Small and Medium Enterprise Agency, Arts. 2, 4](https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/323AC0000000083)

## Where the laws use it

2 laws in force use it in this sense, in 10 provisions; there the word opens this explanation.

- [Act on Preventing Delay in Payment to Small and Medium-Sized Entrusted Business Operators in Relation to Manufacturing Consignment (製造委託等に係る中小受託事業者に対する代金の支払の遅延等の防止に関する法律)](https://japanlaw.org/en/small-contractor-payment-act): 6 provisions, among them [Article 5](https://japanlaw.org/en/small-contractor-payment-act/art-5), [Article 8](https://japanlaw.org/en/small-contractor-payment-act/art-8), [Article 9](https://japanlaw.org/en/small-contractor-payment-act/art-9)
- [Act on Ensuring Proper Transactions Involving Specified Entrusted Business Operators (特定受託事業者に係る取引の適正化等に関する法律)](https://japanlaw.org/en/freelance-act): 4 provisions, among them [Article 6](https://japanlaw.org/en/freelance-act/art-6), [Article 7](https://japanlaw.org/en/freelance-act/art-7), [Article 11](https://japanlaw.org/en/freelance-act/art-11)

## Related

- [Fair Trade Commission (公正取引委員会, こうせいとりひきいいんかい)](https://japanlaw.org/en/concepts/fair-trade-commission)

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## Sources

- Explanation: Written for this site with AI (claude-opus-5-5, 2026-10-11)
- Where it is used, and how often: Worked out by this site from e-Gov's text
- English names of the laws: Japanese Law Translation, Ministry of Justice (2 records)