# 中小企業基本法 / Small and Medium-sized Enterprise Basic Act — 第二条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 2)

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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
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- Provision: 第二条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 2)（容器包装に係る分別収集及び再商品化の促進等に関する法律の経過措置） — address `suppl-4111-146/art-2`
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### 第二条（容器包装に係る分別収集及び再商品化の促進等に関する法律の経過措置） — Transitional Measures for the Act on the Promotion of Sorted Collection and Recycling of Containers and Packaging
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>suppl-4111-146/art-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-basic-act/suppl-4111-146/art-2</sup>

**第一項**  第一条の規定による改正後の中小企業基本法第二条第一項に規定する中小企業者（第一条の規定による改正前の中小企業基本法第二条に規定する中小企業者を除く。）に対する容器包装に係る分別収集及び再商品化の促進等に関する法律（平成七年法律第百十二号）第十一条から第十三条までに規定する再商品化義務に係る同法附則第二条第一項の規定による適用除外期間については、なお従前の例による。
<sup>suppl-4111-146/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-basic-act/suppl-4111-146/art-2/par-1</sup>
With regard to a small and medium-sized enterprise prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (1) of the Small and Medium-sized Enterprise Basic Act as amended by the provisions of Article 1 (excluding a small and medium-sized enterprise prescribed in Article 2 of the Small and Medium-sized Enterprise Basic Act prior to its amendment by the provisions of Article 1), the provisions then in force continue to govern the period of exemption from application under Article 2, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act on the Promotion of Sorted Collection and Recycling of Containers and Packaging (Act No. 112 of 1995) concerning the obligation of recycling prescribed in Articles 11 through 13 of that Act.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- suppl-4111-146/art-2/par-1: 中小企業基本法第二条第一項 → 中小企業基本法 第二条第一項 (Article 2, paragraph (1)), art-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-basic-act/art-2/par-1
- suppl-4111-146/art-2/par-1: 容器包装に係る分別収集及び再商品化の促進等に関する法律（平成七年法律第百十二号）第十一条から第十三条まで → e-Gov law 407AC0000000112, 第十一条 (Article 11), art-11 — not held in this collection

## Cited by

1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction.

- 中小企業基本法 附則第十五条第一項（政令への委任） — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-basic-act/suppl-4111-146/art-15/par-1

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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-20261106T173426-005, 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
