# 中小企業等経営強化法 / Act on Strengthening the Management of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises, etc. — 第四十五条 (Article 45)

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- 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
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- Provision: 第四十五条 (Article 45)（独立行政法人情報処理推進機構の行う認定情報処理支援機関協力業務） — address `art-45`
- Text in force since: 2026-01-01
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### 第四十五条（独立行政法人情報処理推進機構の行う認定情報処理支援機関協力業務） — Cooperation Work for Certified Information Processing Support Bodies Performed by the Innovation Platform Agency, Japan
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>art-45 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-management-strengthening-act/art-45</sup>

  **第一項**  独立行政法人情報処理推進機構は、認定情報処理支援機関の依頼に応じて、その情報処理支援業務の実施に当たってのサイバーセキュリティの確保に関する情報の提供その他必要な協力の業務を行う。
  <sup>art-45/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-management-strengthening-act/art-45/par-1</sup>
  In response to a request from a certified information processing support body, the Innovation Platform Agency, Japan is to carry out work of provision of information regarding ensuring cybersecurity in the implementation of its information processing support work, and other necessary cooperation.
  <sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

## Cited by

1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction.

- 中小企業等経営強化法 第四十三条第二項（認定情報処理支援機関） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-management-strengthening-act/art-43/par-2

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## 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-20261106T173426-012, 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
