# 中小企業等経営強化法 / Act on Strengthening the Management of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises, etc. — 第四十二条 (Article 42)

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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: 第四十二条 (Article 42)（準用） — address `art-42`
- Text in force since: 2026-01-01
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### 第四十二条（準用） — Mutatis Mutandis Application
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<sup>art-42 · https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-management-strengthening-act/art-42</sup>

  **第一項**  第三十二条から第三十六条までの規定は、認定事業分野別経営力向上推進機関について準用する。この場合において、第三十二条第三号及び第三十五条中「経営革新等支援業務」とあるのは「事業分野別経営力向上推進業務」と、同条中「基本方針」とあるのは「事業分野別指針」と読み替えるものとする。
  <sup>art-42/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-management-strengthening-act/art-42/par-1</sup>
  The provisions of Articles 32 through 36 apply mutatis mutandis to a certified business-field management capacity improvement promotion body. In this case, the phrase "support work for management innovation, etc." in Article 32, item (iii) and Article 35 is deemed to be replaced with "business-field management capacity improvement promotion work", and the phrase "basic policy" in that Article is deemed to be replaced with "business-field guidelines".
  <sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- art-42/par-1: 第三十二条から第三十六条まで → 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-42/par-1: 第三十二条から第三十六条まで → 中小企業等経営強化法 第三十三条 (Article 33), art-33 — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-management-strengthening-act/art-33
- art-42/par-1: 第三十二条から第三十六条まで → 中小企業等経営強化法 第三十四条 (Article 34), art-34 — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-management-strengthening-act/art-34
- art-42/par-1: 第三十二条から第三十六条まで → 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-42/par-1: 第三十二条から第三十六条まで → 中小企業等経営強化法 第三十六条 (Article 36), art-36 — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-management-strengthening-act/art-36
- art-42/par-1: 第三十二条第三号 → 中小企業等経営強化法 第三十二条第一項第三号 (Article 32, paragraph (1), item (iii)), art-32/par-1/item-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-management-strengthening-act/art-32/par-1/item-3

## Cited by

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

- 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 第七十三条第十二項（主務大臣） — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-management-strengthening-act/art-73/par-12
- 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-20261106T173426-011, 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
