# 中小企業等経営強化法 / Act on Strengthening the Management of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises, etc. — 第二十九条 (Article 29) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-management-strengthening-act/art-29. 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: 第二十九条 (Article 29)（被承継会社の事業の譲渡の場合の債権者の異議の催告等） — address `art-29` - Text in force since: 2026-01-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-management-strengthening-act/art-29 - 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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第二十九条（被承継会社の事業の譲渡の場合の債権者の異議の催告等） — Demand for Objections from Creditors in the Case of Transfer of Business of a Transferring Company, etc. caption: machine translation, not official art-29 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-management-strengthening-act/art-29 **第一項** 認定経営力向上計画（事業承継等（第二条第十項第七号に掲げる措置のうち事業の譲受けに係るものに限る。）に係る事項の記載があるものに限る。）に記載された被承継等特定事業者等であって株式会社であるもの（以下この項及び第四項において「被承継会社」という。）は、当該認定経営力向上計画に従って行われる事業の全部又は一部の譲渡について株主総会若しくは取締役会の決議又は執行役の決定がされたときは、当該決議又は決定の日から二週間以内に、特定債権者（当該被承継会社に対する債権を有する者のうち、当該事業の全部又は一部の譲渡に伴い、当該事業の全部又は一部を譲り受ける者に対する債権を有することとなり、当該債権を当該被承継会社に対して有しないこととなる者をいう。第三項及び第四項において同じ。）に対して各別に、当該事業の全部又は一部の譲渡の要領を通知し、かつ、当該事業の全部又は一部の譲渡に異議のある場合には一定の期間内に異議を述べるべき旨を催告することができる。 art-29/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-management-strengthening-act/art-29/par-1 A transferring specified business operator, etc. stated in a certified management capacity improvement plan (limited to one that states matters concerning business succession, etc. (limited to those pertaining to the acquisition of a business among the measures listed in Article 2, paragraph (10), item (vii))) that is a stock company (hereinafter referred to as a "transferring company" in this paragraph and paragraph (4)) may, when a resolution of a shareholders meeting or board of directors, or a decision of an executive officer, has been made on the transfer of all or part of its business carried out in accordance with that certified management capacity improvement plan, within two weeks from the date of that resolution or decision, give notice separately to each specified creditor (meaning, among persons that hold claims against that transferring company, a person that, upon the transfer of all or part of that business, comes to hold a claim against the person acquiring all or part of that business and ceases to hold that claim against that transferring company; the same applies in paragraphs (3) and (4)) of the outline of the transfer of all or part of that business, and demand that, if they have any objection to the transfer of all or part of that business, they state it within a certain period. machine translation, not official **第二項** 前項の期間は、一月を下ってはならない。 art-29/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-management-strengthening-act/art-29/par-2 The period under the preceding paragraph must not be less than one month. machine translation, not official **第三項** 第一項に規定する催告を受けた特定債権者が同項の期間内に異議を述べなかったときは、当該特定債権者は、当該事業の全部又は一部の譲渡を承認したものとみなす。 art-29/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-management-strengthening-act/art-29/par-3 Where a specified creditor that has received the demand prescribed in paragraph (1) has not stated an objection within the period referred to in that paragraph, that specified creditor is deemed to have approved the transfer of all or part of that business. machine translation, not official **第四項** 特定債権者が第一項の期間内に異議を述べたときは、当該被承継会社は弁済し、又は相当の担保を提供し、若しくは特定債権者に弁済を受けさせることを目的として信託会社若しくは信託業務を営む金融機関に相当の財産を信託しなければならない。ただし、当該事業の全部又は一部の譲渡をしても当該特定債権者を害するおそれがないときは、この限りでない。 art-29/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-management-strengthening-act/art-29/par-4 Where a specified creditor has stated an objection within the period referred to in paragraph (1), the transferring company must make payment, provide reasonable security, or entrust reasonable property to a trust company or a financial institution engaged in trust business for the purpose of having the specified creditor receive payment; provided, however, that this does not apply where there is no risk of harming that specified creditor even if all or part of that business is transferred. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-29/par-1: 第二条第十項第七号 → 中小企業等経営強化法 第二条第十項第七号 (Article 2, paragraph (10), item (vii)), art-2/par-10/item-7 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-management-strengthening-act/art-2/par-10/item-7 - art-29/par-1: この項 → 中小企業等経営強化法 第二十九条第一項 (Article 29, paragraph (1)), art-29/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-management-strengthening-act/art-29/par-1 - art-29/par-1: 第四項 → 中小企業等経営強化法 第二十九条第四項 (Article 29, paragraph (4)), art-29/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-management-strengthening-act/art-29/par-4 - art-29/par-1: 第三項 → 中小企業等経営強化法 第二十九条第三項 (Article 29, paragraph (3)), art-29/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-management-strengthening-act/art-29/par-3 - art-29/par-2: 前項 → 中小企業等経営強化法 第二十九条第一項 (Article 29, paragraph (1)), art-29/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-management-strengthening-act/art-29/par-1 - art-29/par-3: 第一項 → 中小企業等経営強化法 第二十九条第一項 (Article 29, paragraph (1)), art-29/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-management-strengthening-act/art-29/par-1 - art-29/par-4: 第一項 → 中小企業等経営強化法 第二十九条第一項 (Article 29, paragraph (1)), art-29/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-management-strengthening-act/art-29/par-1 ## Cited by 4 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 中小企業等経営強化法 第二十九条第一項（被承継会社の事業の譲渡の場合の債権者の異議の催告等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-management-strengthening-act/art-29/par-1 - 中小企業等経営強化法 第二十九条第二項（被承継会社の事業の譲渡の場合の債権者の異議の催告等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-management-strengthening-act/art-29/par-2 - 中小企業等経営強化法 第二十九条第三項（被承継会社の事業の譲渡の場合の債権者の異議の催告等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-management-strengthening-act/art-29/par-3 - 中小企業等経営強化法 第二十九条第四項（被承継会社の事業の譲渡の場合の債権者の異議の催告等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-management-strengthening-act/art-29/par-4 --- ## 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