# 中小企業等経営強化法 / Act on Strengthening the Management of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises, etc. — 第七十六条 (Article 76) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-management-strengthening-act/art-76. 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: 第七十六条 (Article 76) — address `art-76` - Text in force since: 2026-01-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-management-strengthening-act/art-76 - 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. --- ### 第七十六条 art-76 · https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-management-strengthening-act/art-76 **第一項** 第七十一条（第五項を除く。）の規定による報告をせず、又は虚偽の報告をした場合には、当該違反行為をした者は、三十万円以下の罰金に処する。 art-76/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-management-strengthening-act/art-76/par-1 If a person fails to make a report under Article 71 (excluding paragraph (5)), or makes a false report, the person who committed the violation is punished by a fine of not more than 300,000 yen. machine translation, not official **第二項** 法人の代表者又は法人若しくは人の代理人、使用人その他の従業者が、その法人又は人の業務に関し、前項の違反行為をしたときは、行為者を罰するほか、その法人又は人に対して同項の刑を科する。 art-76/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-management-strengthening-act/art-76/par-2 If a representative of a corporation, or an agent, employee or other worker of a corporation or person, commits a violation prescribed in the preceding paragraph in connection with the business of that corporation or person, in addition to the offender being punished, the fine prescribed in that paragraph is also imposed on that corporation or person. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-76/par-1: 第七十一条 → 中小企業等経営強化法 第七十一条 (Article 71), art-71 — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-management-strengthening-act/art-71 - art-76/par-1: 第五項 → 中小企業等経営強化法 第七十一条第五項 (Article 71, paragraph (5)), art-71/par-5 — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-management-strengthening-act/art-71/par-5 - art-76/par-2: 前項 → 中小企業等経営強化法 第七十六条第一項 (Article 76, paragraph (1)), art-76/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-management-strengthening-act/art-76/par-1 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 中小企業等経営強化法 第七十六条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/sme-management-strengthening-act/art-76/par-2 --- ## 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-20261106T173426-018, 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