A person who seeks to conduct business (excluding business prescribed in Article 54, a business that has a small impact on public health and is specified by Cabinet Order, and a poultry slaughtering business) must notify a prefectural governor of the name and the location of their business office and other matters specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare in advance.
The provisions of the preceding Article apply mutatis mutandis to a person who has made a notification under the provisions of the preceding paragraph. In such a case, the terms "a person who has obtained the approval referred to in paragraph (1) of the preceding Article" and "an approved business operator" in paragraph (1) of that Article are deemed to be replaced with "a person who has made a notification under the provisions of paragraph (1) of the following Article" and "a notifying business operator", respectively, and the term "an approved business operator" in paragraph (2) of that Article is deemed to be replaced with "a notifying business operator".
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business
「営業」
Collecting, producing, importing, processing, cooking, storing, transporting or selling food or additives, or making, importing or selling apparatus or containers and packages, as a trade; collecting food in farming and fisheries is not included.
Defined inArticle 4, paragraph (7)· applies throughout the law
poultry slaughtering businesses
「食鳥処理の事業」
A poultry slaughtering business as defined in Article 2, item (v) of the Poultry Slaughtering Business Control and Poultry Meat Inspection Act, which Articles 51, 54 and 57, paragraph (1) leave out of the businesses they cover.
Short name set inArticle 51, paragraph (1)· applies only in this provision and in Article 54; and Article 57, paragraph (1)