# 中小企業等経営強化法 / Act on Strengthening the Management of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises, etc. — 第十二条 (Article 12) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-management-strengthening-act/art-12. 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: 第十二条 (Article 12)（独立行政法人中小企業基盤整備機構の行う社外高度人材活用新事業分野開拓促進業務） — address `art-12` - Text in force since: 2026-01-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-management-strengthening-act/art-12 - 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. --- ### 第十二条（独立行政法人中小企業基盤整備機構の行う社外高度人材活用新事業分野開拓促進業務） — Business of Promoting Developing New Business Fields Using Outside Highly Skilled Personnel Carried Out by the Organization for Small and Medium Enterprises and Regional Innovation, JAPAN caption: machine translation, not official art-12 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-management-strengthening-act/art-12 **第一項** 独立行政法人中小企業基盤整備機構（以下「中小企業基盤整備機構」という。）は、社外高度人材活用新事業分野開拓を促進するため、認定新規中小企業者等が認定社外高度人材活用新事業分野開拓事業を行うために必要とする資金の借入れに係る債務の保証及び認定新規中小企業者等（会社に限る。）が当該資金を調達するために発行する社債（社債、株式等の振替に関する法律（平成十三年法律第七十五号）第六十六条第一号に規定する短期社債を除く。第二十五条第一項において同じ。）に係る債務の保証の業務を行う。 art-12/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-management-strengthening-act/art-12/par-1 The Organization for Small and Medium Enterprises and Regional Innovation, JAPAN (hereinafter referred to as the "Organization for Small and Medium Enterprises and Regional Innovation, JAPAN"), in order to promote developing new business fields using outside highly skilled personnel, conducts the business of guaranteeing obligations pertaining to borrowings of funds that a certified new small and medium-sized enterprise, etc. requires in order to carry out a certified project for developing new business fields using outside highly skilled personnel, and of guaranteeing obligations pertaining to corporate bonds (excluding short-term corporate bonds prescribed in Article 66, item (i) of the Act on Book-Entry Transfer of Corporate Bonds and Shares (Act No. 75 of 2001); the same applies in Article 25, paragraph (1)) issued by a certified new small and medium-sized enterprise, etc. (limited to a company) in order to raise those funds. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-12/par-1: 社債、株式等の振替に関する法律（平成十三年法律第七十五号）第六十六条第一号 → e-Gov law 413AC0000000075, 第六十六条第一項第一号 (Article 66, paragraph (1), item (i)), art-66/par-1/item-1 — not held in this collection - art-12/par-1: 第二十五条第一項 → 中小企業等経営強化法 第二十五条第一項 (Article 25, paragraph (1)), art-25/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-management-strengthening-act/art-25/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 第九条第一項（社外高度人材活用新事業分野開拓計画の変更等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-management-strengthening-act/art-9/par-1 --- ## 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-20261106T173426-005, translated 2026-11-07 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch sme-management-strengthening-act-20261106T173426-006, 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