# 中小企業等経営強化法 / Act on Strengthening the Management of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises, etc. — 第六条 (Article 6) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-management-strengthening-act/art-6. 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: 第六条 (Article 6)（診断及び指導） — address `art-6` - Text in force since: 2026-01-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-management-strengthening-act/art-6 - e-Gov law ID: 411AC0000000018 — never renamed. A permanent link, `/l/{lawId}/{address}` on this site, redirects to the page. - Every provision below carries its address and its URL on the line under it. - Japanese text: e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁). English: as marked on each line below. Only the Japanese as published by the government has legal effect; the text below is a copy of it. Every English rendering below is a translation and says which kind: the Ministry of Justice's translation, or this site's machine translation, whose model and date the Sources list names. They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第六条（診断及び指導） — Diagnosis and Guidance caption: machine translation, not official art-6 · https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-management-strengthening-act/art-6 **第一項** 経済産業大臣は、新規中小企業者である会社であってその事業の将来における成長発展を図るために積極的に外部からの投資を受けて事業活動を行うことが特に必要かつ適切なものとして経済産業省令で定める要件に該当するもの（次条において「特定新規中小企業者」という。）に対して、その投資による資金調達の円滑な実施に必要な経営状況に関する情報の提供について診断及び指導を行うものとする。 art-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-management-strengthening-act/art-6/par-1 The Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry is to provide diagnosis and guidance, concerning the provision of information on management conditions necessary for the smooth implementation of fund-raising through investment, to a company that is a new small and medium-sized enterprise and that satisfies the requirements specified by Order of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry as one for which it is particularly necessary and appropriate, in order to achieve the future growth and development of its business, to actively receive investment from outside and carry on business activities (referred to in the following Article as a "specified new small and medium-sized enterprise"). machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-6/par-1: 次条 → 中小企業等経営強化法 第七条 (Article 7), art-7 — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-management-strengthening-act/art-7 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 租税特別措置法 第三十七条の十三第一項第一号（特定中小会社が発行した株式の取得に要した金額の控除等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/special-taxation-measures-act/art-37-13/par-1/item-1 (e-Gov law ID 332AC0000000026) - 租税特別措置法 第三十七条の十三の二第一項（特定新規中小企業者がその設立の際に発行した株式の取得に要した金額の控除等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/special-taxation-measures-act/art-37-13-2/par-1 (e-Gov law ID 332AC0000000026) - 租税特別措置法 第四十一条の十八の四第一項第一号（特定新規中小会社が発行した株式を取得した場合の課税の特例） — https://japanlaw.org/en/special-taxation-measures-act/art-41-18-4/par-1/item-1 (e-Gov law ID 332AC0000000026) --- ## 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-20261106T173426-004, translated 2026-11-07 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch sme-management-strengthening-act-20261106T173426-005, 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