# 中小企業等経営強化法 / Act on Strengthening the Management of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises, etc. — 第七条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 7) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-management-strengthening-act/suppl-4271-50/art-7. 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: 第七条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 7)（罰則に関する経過措置） — address `suppl-4271-50/art-7` - Text in force since: 2026-01-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-management-strengthening-act/suppl-4271-50/art-7 - 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. --- ### 第七条（罰則に関する経過措置） — Transitional Measures Concerning Penal Provisions caption: machine translation, not official suppl-4271-50/art-7 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-management-strengthening-act/suppl-4271-50/art-7 **第一項** この法律の施行前にした行為に対する罰則の適用については、なお従前の例による。 suppl-4271-50/art-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-management-strengthening-act/suppl-4271-50/art-7/par-1 With regard to the application of penal provisions to acts committed before this Act comes into effect, the provisions then in force continue to govern. machine translation, not official ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 中小企業等経営強化法 附則第一条第一項第一号（施行期日） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-management-strengthening-act/suppl-4271-50/art-1/par-1/item-1 - 中小企業等経営強化法 附則第六条第一項（処分、申請等に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-management-strengthening-act/suppl-4271-50/art-6/par-1 - 中小企業等経営強化法 附則第八条第一項（政令への委任） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/sme-management-strengthening-act/suppl-4271-50/art-8/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-20261106T173426-019, translated 2026-11-07 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch sme-management-strengthening-act-20261106T173426-022, 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