# 中小企業等経営強化法 / Act on Strengthening the Management of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises, etc. — 第三十六条 (Article 36)

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- 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
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- Provision: 第三十六条 (Article 36)（認定の取消し） — address `art-36`
- Text in force since: 2026-01-01
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### 第三十六条（認定の取消し） — Rescission of Certification
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<sup>art-36 · https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-management-strengthening-act/art-36</sup>

  **第一項**  主務大臣は、認定経営革新等支援機関が次の各号のいずれかに該当するときは、その認定を取り消すことができる。
  <sup>art-36/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-management-strengthening-act/art-36/par-1</sup>
  The competent minister may rescind the certification of a certified support body for management innovation, etc. if it falls under any of the following items:
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    **一**  第三十二条各号（第五号を除く。）のいずれかに該当するに至ったとき。
    <sup>art-36/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-management-strengthening-act/art-36/par-1/item-1</sup>
    it has come to fall under any of the items of Article 32 (excluding item (v));
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    **二**  前条の規定による命令に違反したとき。
    <sup>art-36/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-management-strengthening-act/art-36/par-1/item-2</sup>
    it violates an order under the preceding Article; or
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    **三**  不正の手段により第三十一条第一項の認定又は第三十三条第一項の認定の更新を受けたことが判明したとき。
    <sup>art-36/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-management-strengthening-act/art-36/par-1/item-3</sup>
    it is found that it has obtained the certification referred to in Article 31, paragraph (1) or the renewal of the certification referred to in Article 33, paragraph (1) by wrongful means.
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## Cites
- art-36/par-1/item-1: 第三十二条 → 中小企業等経営強化法 第三十二条 (Article 32), art-32 — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-management-strengthening-act/art-32
- art-36/par-1/item-1: 第五号 → 中小企業等経営強化法 第三十二条第一項第五号 (Article 32, paragraph (1), item (v)), art-32/par-1/item-5 — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-management-strengthening-act/art-32/par-1/item-5
- art-36/par-1/item-2: 前条 → 中小企業等経営強化法 第三十五条 (Article 35), art-35 — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-management-strengthening-act/art-35
- art-36/par-1/item-3: 第三十一条第一項 → 中小企業等経営強化法 第三十一条第一項 (Article 31, paragraph (1)), art-31/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-management-strengthening-act/art-31/par-1
- art-36/par-1/item-3: 第三十三条第一項 → 中小企業等経営強化法 第三十三条第一項 (Article 33, paragraph (1)), art-33/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-management-strengthening-act/art-33/par-1

## Cited by

6 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction.

- 中小企業等経営強化法 第三十二条第一項第五号（欠格条項） — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-management-strengthening-act/art-32/par-1/item-5
- 中小企業等経営強化法 第四十二条第一項（準用） — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-management-strengthening-act/art-42/par-1
- 中小企業等経営強化法 第四十七条第一項（準用） — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-management-strengthening-act/art-47/par-1
- 中小企業等経営強化法 第七十三条第五項（主務大臣） — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-management-strengthening-act/art-73/par-5
- 中小企業等経営強化法 第七十三条第六項（主務大臣） — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-management-strengthening-act/art-73/par-6
- 中小企業等経営強化法 附則第十四条第三項（中小企業等経営強化法の一部改正に伴う経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-management-strengthening-act/suppl-4301-26/art-14/par-3

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## 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-20261106T173426-010, 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