Article 122Authorized Training Grant for Wide-Area Organizations

①The authorized training grant for wide-area organizations is to be paid to a small and medium-sized enterprise employers' association (limited to one whose members extend across two or more prefectures) or a federation thereof that conducts authorized vocational training prescribed in Article 24, paragraph (3) of the Vocational Abilities Development Promotion Act (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 27-2, paragraph (2) of that Act) (hereinafter referred to as "authorized training") for small and medium-sized enterprise employers who are its members or members of the organizations constituting the federation, and that is found to need assistance in order to promote authorized training.

②The amount of the authorized training grant for wide-area organizations is 1/2 (2/3 in the case of a federation of national small and medium-sized enterprise employers' associations) of the amount calculated, with regard to the expenses required for the operation of authorized training conducted by the small and medium-sized enterprise employers' association or federation thereof prescribed in the preceding paragraph, in accordance with the standards determined by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare, taking into consideration the type, scale, etc. of vocational training (where that amount exceeds the amount required for those expenses in that fiscal year, that amount).