Article 32-6License Validity Period

①The validity period of the license referred to in Article 30, paragraph (1) is three years, commencing from the day the license is granted.

②A person seeking to continue providing paid employment placement services for which they have been licensed after the expiration of the license validity period provided for in the preceding paragraph (or after the license validity period as renewed pursuant to the provisions of this paragraph, if applicable) must seek renewal of the license validity period.

③Upon received an application to renew a license's validity period as prescribed in the preceding paragraph, the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare must renew the license validity period if the Minister finds that the application conforms to the standards set forth in the items of paragraph (1) of Article 31.

④Any person seeking to have a license's validity period renewed as provided for in paragraph (2) is required to pay a fee in the amount that Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare determines, taking into account the actual costs.

⑤The validity period of a license as referred to in Article 30, paragraph (1), that has been renewed pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (2), is five years, commencing from the day after the date on which the license validity period from prior to the renewal expires.

⑥The provisions of Article 30, paragraphs (2) through (4), Article 31, paragraph (2), and Article 32 (excluding items (v) through (viii)) apply mutatis mutandis to the renewal of a license's validity period as provided for in paragraph (2).