# 中小企業基本法 / Small and Medium-sized Enterprise Basic Act — 第一条 (Article 1)
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- Law: 中小企業基本法 (Small and Medium-sized Enterprise Basic Act), 昭和三十八年法律第百五十四号
- English title "Small and Medium-sized Enterprise Basic Act": Ministry of Justice translation database, which lists the title
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- Provision: 第一条 (Article 1)（目的） — address `art-1`
- Text in force since: 2026-01-01
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### 第一条（目的） — Purpose
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art-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-basic-act/art-1
**第一項** この法律は、中小企業に関する施策について、その基本理念、基本方針その他の基本となる事項を定めるとともに、国及び地方公共団体の責務等を明らかにすることにより、中小企業に関する施策を総合的に推進し、もつて国民経済の健全な発展及び国民生活の向上を図ることを目的とする。
art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-basic-act/art-1/par-1
The purpose of this Act is to comprehensively promote policies concerning small and medium-sized enterprises, and thereby to achieve the sound development of the national economy and the improvement of the lives of the people, by establishing the basic principles, basic policies and other fundamental matters concerning policies for small and medium-sized enterprises, and by clarifying the responsibilities, etc. of the national government and local governments
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## Sources
- e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 中小企業基本法 — the text in force from 2026-01-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/338AC0000000154/20260101_507AC0000000041), retrieved 2026-11-06
- Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — 中小企業基本法 — its English title as the Ministry of Justice's translation database lists it (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/822), retrieved 2026-10-07
- claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch sme-basic-act-20261106T173426-001, translated 2026-11-07
- claude-sonnet-5-5, corrected on review by claude-opus-5-5 — Machine translation corrected on review, batch sme-basic-act-20261106T173426-001, translated 2026-11-07
- This site's parser, version 225 — 中小企業基本法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-06