# 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 / Act on Preventing Delay in Payment to Small and Medium-Sized Entrusted Business Operators in Relation to Manufacturing Consignment — 第九条 (Article 9) - Law: 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 (Act on Preventing Delay in Payment to Small and Medium-Sized Entrusted Business Operators in Relation to Manufacturing Consignment), 昭和三十一年法律第百二十号 - English title "Act on Preventing Delay in Payment to Small and Medium-Sized Entrusted Business Operators in Relation to Manufacturing Consignment": Ministry of Justice translation - Kind: Act — the distinction between 法律 (Act), 政令 (Cabinet Order), 省令 (Ministerial Order) and 条例 (local ordinance) decides who may issue it and what it may say. - Provision: 第九条 (Article 9)（中小企業庁長官の請求） — address `art-9` - Text in force since: 2026-01-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/small-contractor-payment-act/art-9 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/331AC0000000120/art-9 - Every provision below carries its address and both URLs on the line under it. - Japanese text: e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁). English: as marked on each line below. Only the Japanese as published by the government has legal effect; the text below is a copy of it. Every English rendering below is a translation and says which kind: the Ministry of Justice's translation, or this site's machine translation, whose model and date the Sources list names. They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第九条（中小企業庁長官の請求） — (Request by Commissioner of Small and Medium Enterprise Agency) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-9 · https://japanlaw.org/en/small-contractor-payment-act/art-9 · https://japanlaw.org/l/331AC0000000120/art-9 **第一項** 中小企業庁長官は、委託事業者について第五条の規定に違反する事実があるかどうかを調査し、その事実があると認めるときは、公正取引委員会に対し、この法律の規定に従い適当な措置をとるべきことを求めることができる。 art-9/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/small-contractor-payment-act/art-9/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/331AC0000000120/art-9/par-1 The Commissioner of the Small and Medium Enterprise Agency may investigate whether or not there are any facts in violation of the provisions of Article 5 with regard to the entrusting business operator, and when such matters are found to be the facts, may request the Japan Fair Trade Commission to take appropriate measures in accordance with the provisions of this Act. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-9/par-1: 第五条 → 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 第五条 (Article 5), art-5 — https://japanlaw.org/en/small-contractor-payment-act/art-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/331AC0000000120/art-5 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 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 第十二条第三項（報告及び検査） — https://japanlaw.org/en/small-contractor-payment-act/art-12/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/331AC0000000120/art-12/par-3 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 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 — the text in force from 2026-01-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/331AC0000000120/20260101_507AC0000000041), retrieved 2026-10-11 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Act on Preventing Delay in Payment to Small and Medium-Sized Entrusted Business Operators in Relation to Manufacturing Consignment — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/5106/tb), retrieved 2026-10-11 - This site's parser, version 189 — 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 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-11