# 中小企業等経営強化法 / Act on Strengthening the Management of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises, etc. — 第十五条 (Article 15) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-management-strengthening-act/art-15. 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: 中小企業等経営強化法 (Act on Strengthening the Management of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises, etc.), 平成十一年法律第十八号 - English title "Act on Strengthening the Management of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises, etc.": claude-opus-5-5 - 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: 第十五条 (Article 15)（経営革新計画の変更等） — address `art-15` - Text in force since: 2026-01-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-management-strengthening-act/art-15 - e-Gov law ID: 411AC0000000018 — never renamed. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第十五条（経営革新計画の変更等） — Change of Management Innovation Plans, etc. caption: machine translation, not official art-15 · https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-management-strengthening-act/art-15 **第一項** 前条第一項の承認を受けた特定事業者は、当該承認に係る経営革新計画を変更しようとするときは、経済産業省令で定めるところにより、その承認をした行政庁の承認を受けなければならない。 art-15/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-management-strengthening-act/art-15/par-1 A specified business operator that has obtained the approval under paragraph (1) of the preceding Article, when it intends to change the management innovation plan pertaining to that approval, must obtain the approval of the administrative agency that granted the approval, as provided by Order of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry. machine translation, not official **第二項** 行政庁は、前条第一項の承認に係る経営革新計画（前項の規定による変更の承認があったときは、その変更後のもの。以下「承認経営革新計画」という。）に従って経営革新のための事業が行われていないと認めるときは、その承認を取り消すことができる。 art-15/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-management-strengthening-act/art-15/par-2 When the administrative agency finds that a business for management innovation is not being carried out in accordance with the management innovation plan pertaining to the approval under paragraph (1) of the preceding Article (where approval of a change has been given under the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the plan as changed; hereinafter referred to as the "approved management innovation plan"), it may rescind that approval. machine translation, not official **第三項** 前条第三項の規定は、第一項の承認について準用する。 art-15/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-management-strengthening-act/art-15/par-3 The provisions of paragraph (3) of the preceding Article apply mutatis mutandis to the approval under paragraph (1). machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-15/par-1: 前条第一項 → 中小企業等経営強化法 第十四条第一項 (Article 14, paragraph (1)), art-14/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-management-strengthening-act/art-14/par-1 - art-15/par-2: 前条第一項 → 中小企業等経営強化法 第十四条第一項 (Article 14, paragraph (1)), art-14/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-management-strengthening-act/art-14/par-1 - art-15/par-2: 前項 → 中小企業等経営強化法 第十五条第一項 (Article 15, paragraph (1)), art-15/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-management-strengthening-act/art-15/par-1 - art-15/par-3: 前条第三項 → 中小企業等経営強化法 第十四条第三項 (Article 14, paragraph (3)), art-14/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-management-strengthening-act/art-14/par-3 - art-15/par-3: 第一項 → 中小企業等経営強化法 第十五条第一項 (Article 15, paragraph (1)), art-15/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-management-strengthening-act/art-15/par-1 ## Cited by 4 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 中小企業等経営強化法 第十五条第二項（経営革新計画の変更等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-management-strengthening-act/art-15/par-2 - 中小企業等経営強化法 第十五条第三項（経営革新計画の変更等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-management-strengthening-act/art-15/par-3 - 中小企業等経営強化法 第七十二条第二項（所管行政庁等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-management-strengthening-act/art-72/par-2 - 中小企業等経営強化法 附則第三条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-management-strengthening-act/suppl-5021-58/art-3/par-1 --- ## Sources - claude-opus-5-5 — English titles of cited laws, written for this site, written 2026-10-08 - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 中小企業等経営強化法 — the text in force from 2026-01-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/411AC0000000018/20260101_507AC0000000041), retrieved 2026-11-06 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch sme-management-strengthening-act-20261106T173426-006, translated 2026-11-07 - This site's parser, version 225 — 中小企業等経営強化法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-06