# 中小企業基本法 / Small and Medium-sized Enterprise Basic Act — 第三十条 (Article 30) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-basic-act/art-30. Every law, and how to address a provision: https://japanlaw.org/llms.txt. The same laws as MCP tools (no sign-in): https://japanlaw.org/mcp. - Law: 中小企業基本法 (Small and Medium-sized Enterprise Basic Act), 昭和三十八年法律第百五十四号 - English title "Small and Medium-sized Enterprise Basic Act": Ministry of Justice translation database, which lists the title - 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: 第三十条 (Article 30)（組織） — address `art-30` - Text in force since: 2026-01-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-basic-act/art-30 - e-Gov law ID: 338AC0000000154 — never renamed. A permanent link, `/l/{lawId}/{address}` on this site, redirects to the page. - Every provision below carries its address and its URL 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. --- ### 第三十条（組織） — Organization caption: machine translation, not official art-30 · https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-basic-act/art-30 **第一項** 審議会は、委員三十人以内で組織する。 art-30/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-basic-act/art-30/par-1 The Council is composed of not more than 30 members. machine translation, not official **第二項** 委員は、前条第一項に規定する事項に関し学識経験のある者のうちから、経済産業大臣が任命する。 art-30/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-basic-act/art-30/par-2 The members are appointed by the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry from among persons with academic knowledge and experience regarding the matters prescribed in paragraph (1) of the preceding Article. machine translation, not official **第三項** 委員は、非常勤とする。 art-30/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-basic-act/art-30/par-3 The members are to serve on a part-time basis. machine translation, not official **第四項** 第二項に定めるもののほか、審議会の職員で政令で定めるものは、経済産業大臣が任命する。 art-30/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-basic-act/art-30/par-4 In addition to what is prescribed in paragraph (2), the staff of the Council specified by Cabinet Order are appointed by the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-30/par-2: 前条第一項 → 中小企業基本法 第二十九条第一項 (Article 29, paragraph (1)), art-29/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-basic-act/art-29/par-1 - art-30/par-4: 第二項 → 中小企業基本法 第三十条第二項 (Article 30, paragraph (2)), art-30/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-basic-act/art-30/par-2 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 中小企業基本法 第三十条第四項（組織） — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-basic-act/art-30/par-4 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 中小企業基本法 — the text in force from 2026-01-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/338AC0000000154/20260101_507AC0000000041), retrieved 2026-11-06 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — 中小企業基本法 — its English title as the Ministry of Justice's translation database lists it (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/822), retrieved 2026-10-07 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch sme-basic-act-20261106T173426-004, translated 2026-11-07 - This site's parser, version 225 — 中小企業基本法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-06