# 中小企業基本法 / Small and Medium-sized Enterprise Basic Act — 第六条 (Article 6)

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- 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: 第六条 (Article 6)（地方公共団体の責務） — address `art-6`
- Text in force since: 2026-01-01
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### 第六条（地方公共団体の責務） — Responsibilities of Local Governments
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>art-6 · https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-basic-act/art-6</sup>

**第一項**  地方公共団体は、基本理念にのつとり、中小企業に関し、国との適切な役割分担を踏まえて、その地方公共団体の区域の自然的経済的社会的諸条件に応じた施策を策定し、及び実施する責務を有する。
<sup>art-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-basic-act/art-6/par-1</sup>
Local governments have the responsibility to formulate and implement, in accordance with the basic principles and with regard to small and medium-sized enterprises, policies that suit the natural, economic and social conditions of their areas, taking into account an appropriate division of roles with the national government.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## 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-20261106T173426-001, 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