# 中小企業等経営強化法 / Act on Strengthening the Management of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises, etc. — 第二十八条 (Article 28) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-management-strengthening-act/art-28. 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: 第二十八条 (Article 28)（中小企業等協同組合法及び中小企業団体の組織に関する法律の特例） — address `art-28` - Text in force since: 2026-01-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-management-strengthening-act/art-28 - 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. --- ### 第二十八条（中小企業等協同組合法及び中小企業団体の組織に関する法律の特例） — Special Provisions for the Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Cooperatives Act and the Act on the Organization of Small and Medium-sized Enterprise Association caption: machine translation, not official art-28 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-management-strengthening-act/art-28 **第一項** 特定事業者が認定経営力向上計画（事業承継等（第二条第十項第九号に掲げる措置に係るものに限る。）に係る事項の記載があるものに限る。）に従って当該認定の日から二月を経過する日までに当該認定に係る事業協同組合、企業組合及び協業組合を設立する場合における中小企業等協同組合法（昭和二十四年法律第百八十一号）第二十四条第一項及び中小企業団体の組織に関する法律（昭和三十二年法律第百八十五号）第五条の十五第一項の適用については、これらの規定中「四人以上」とあるのは、「三人以上」とする。 art-28/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-management-strengthening-act/art-28/par-1 Where a specified business operator, in accordance with a certified management capacity improvement plan (limited to one that states matters concerning business succession, etc. (limited to those pertaining to the measure listed in Article 2, paragraph (10), item (ix))), establishes the business cooperative, enterprise association and cooperative partnership pertaining to that certification by the day on which two months have elapsed from the date of that certification, with regard to the application of Article 24, paragraph (1) of the Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Cooperatives Act (Act No. 181 of 1949) and Article 5-15, paragraph (1) of the Act on the Organization of Small and Medium-sized Enterprise Association (Act No. 185 of 1957), the term "four or more persons" in these provisions is deemed to be replaced with "three or more persons". machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-28/par-1: 第二条第十項第九号 → 中小企業等経営強化法 第二条第十項第九号 (Article 2, paragraph (10), item (ix)), art-2/par-10/item-9 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-management-strengthening-act/art-2/par-10/item-9 - art-28/par-1: 中小企業等協同組合法（昭和二十四年法律第百八十一号）第二十四条第一項 → e-Gov law 324AC0000000181, 第二十四条第一項 (Article 24, paragraph (1)), art-24/par-1 — not held in this collection - art-28/par-1: 中小企業団体の組織に関する法律（昭和三十二年法律第百八十五号）第五条の十五第一項 → e-Gov law 332AC0000000185, 第五条の十五第一項 (Article 5-15, paragraph (1)), art-5-15/par-1 — not held in this collection --- ## 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-20261106T173426-009, 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