# 中小企業基本法 / Small and Medium-sized Enterprise Basic Act — 第十九条 (Article 19)

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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: 第十九条 (Article 19)（産業の集積の活性化） — address `art-19`
- Text in force since: 2026-01-01
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### 第十九条（産業の集積の活性化） — Revitalization of Industrial Clusters
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>art-19 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-basic-act/art-19</sup>

  **第一項**  国は、自然的経済的社会的条件からみて一体である地域において、同種の事業又はこれと関連性が高い事業を相当数の中小企業者が有機的に連携しつつ行つている産業の集積の活性化を図るために必要な施策を講ずるものとする。
  <sup>art-19/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-basic-act/art-19/par-1</sup>
  The State is to take the measures necessary to revitalize industrial clusters in which, in a region that is a single unit in terms of natural, economic and social conditions, a considerable number of small and medium-sized enterprises carry out the same type of business, or business highly related thereto, while cooperating organically.
  <sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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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-20261106T173426-003, 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