Supplementary Provisions, Article 4Transitional Measures Accompanying Partial Amendment of the Food Sanitation Act

①The provisions of Article 56 of the Food Sanitation Act as amended by the provisions of Article 2 (hereinafter in this Article referred to as the "New Food Sanitation Act") (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 57, paragraph (2) of the New Food Sanitation Act (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 68, paragraphs (1) and (3) of the New Food Sanitation Act) and Article 68, paragraph (1) of the New Food Sanitation Act) do not apply to a person who has taken over business (meaning business prescribed in Article 4, paragraph (7) of the Food Sanitation Act (including the case prescribed in Article 68, paragraph (3) of the New Food Sanitation Act); referred to simply as "business" in the following paragraph) in the case where that business was transferred before the Effective Date.

②A prefectural governor must, for the time being, investigate at least once the status of operations of a person who has succeeded to the position of an approved business operator or a notifying business operator pursuant to the provisions of Article 56, paragraph (1) of the New Food Sanitation Act (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 57, paragraph (2) of the New Food Sanitation Act (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 68, paragraphs (1) and (3) of the New Food Sanitation Act) and Article 68, paragraph (1) of the New Food Sanitation Act) (limited to a person who has succeeded to that position by transfer of business), during the period until six months elapse counting from the day on which that position was succeeded to.