A specified business operator, etc. that has obtained the certification under paragraph (1) of the preceding Article, when it intends to change the management capacity improvement plan pertaining to that certification, must obtain the certification of the competent minister that granted the certification, as provided by order of the competent ministry.
When the competent minister finds that a business pertaining to management capacity improvement (including, where the certified management capacity improvement plan states the matters listed in paragraph (4), item (ii) of the preceding Article, the prior investigation for business succession, etc.) is not being carried out in accordance with the management capacity improvement plan pertaining to the certification under paragraph (1) of the preceding Article (where certification of a change has been given under the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the plan as changed; hereinafter referred to as the "certified management capacity improvement plan"), the competent minister may rescind that certification.
Where, before business succession, etc. is carried out in accordance with a certified management capacity improvement plan, an application for certification of a change is filed under the provisions of paragraph (1) and the change falls under any of the following items, the competent minister, when intending to grant the certification under that paragraph, is to consult with the administrative agency specified in the relevant item and obtain its consent:
a change to the management capacity improvement plan pertaining to the certification under paragraph (1) of the preceding Article that was granted with the consent obtained under paragraph (7) of that Article: the administrative agency prescribed in paragraph (7) of that Article (excluding, where the change is to delete all or part of the statement of the status of the transferring specified business operator, etc. based on a specified permission, etc., the administrative agency that granted the specified permission, etc. pertaining to that deletion);
a change by which the status of a transferring specified business operator, etc. based on a specified permission, etc. is newly to be stated: the administrative agency that granted that specified permission, etc.
新たに特定許認可等に基づく被承継等特定事業者等の地位を記載しようとする変更 当該特定許認可等をした行政庁
The provisions of paragraph (6) of the preceding Article apply mutatis mutandis to the certification under paragraph (1), and the provisions of paragraphs (8) through (10) of that Article apply mutatis mutandis to the consent under the preceding paragraph, respectively.
前条第六項の規定は第一項の認定について、同条第八項から第十項までの規定は前項の同意について、それぞれ準用する。
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specified business operator, etc.machine translation
「特定事業者等」
A specified business operator (特定事業者), or a company, other corporation a Cabinet Order (政令) names or individual with no more regular employees than a number a Cabinet Order sets.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (6)· applies throughout the law
business succession, etc.machine translation
「事業承継等」
Any of the measures Article 2, paragraph (10) lists through which a business operator obtains or is provided with another business operator's management resources: an absorption-type or consolidation-type merger, an absorption-type or incorporation-type company split, a share exchange, share transfer or share delivery between specified business operators, etc. (特定事業者等); taking over a business or assets from another such operator; acquiring shares or equity in another such operator that makes it a related business; or setting up a business cooperative (事業協同組合), enterprise association (企業組合) or cooperative partnership (協業組合).
Short name set inArticle 2, paragraph (10)
management capacity improvementmachine translation
「経営力向上」
A business operator strengthening its management ability and improving its management by bringing in, and running its business with, ways of making advanced use of the management resources it already has, or of those it obtains from or is provided by another business operator through business succession, etc. (事業承継等) — such as training people with useful knowledge or skills, using the results of analysing its finances or information on demand for goods and services, or building information systems to work more efficiently.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (10)· applies throughout the law
transferring specified business operator, etc.machine translation
「被承継等特定事業者等」
The other specified business operator, etc. (特定事業者等) from which a succeeding specified business operator, etc. (承継等特定事業者等) carries out business succession, etc. (事業承継等).
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (12)· applies throughout the law
management capacity improvement planmachine translation
「経営力向上計画」
A plan for management capacity improvement (経営力向上) that a specified business operator, etc. (特定事業者等) draws up, alone or with others, and submits to the competent minister (主務大臣) to be certified as appropriate under Article 17, including one carried out with a cooperative, company or other corporation it is to set up, by a company or corporation formed through its merger, or together with its foreign affiliated corporations, etc. (外国関係法人等).
Short name set inArticle 17, paragraph (1)
specified permission, etc.machine translation
「特定許認可等」
A permission, approval, licence or other disposition granting a benefit (許認可等) as defined in Article 2, item (iii) of the Administrative Procedure Act, that a Cabinet Order (政令) specifies as one where passing the status held under it from the transferring business (被承継等特定事業者等) to the succeeding business (承継等特定事業者等) particularly helps management capacity improvement go smoothly.
Defined inArticle 17, paragraph (4), item (i)
prior investigation for business succession, etc.machine translation
「事業承継等事前調査」
An investigation, from legal, financial, tax and other angles, into whether loss may arise because the management resources a specified business operator, etc. (特定事業者等) is to obtain or be provided with through business succession, etc. (事業承継等) lack the functions or other elements needed to use them together with its other management resources, which a management capacity improvement plan (経営力向上計画) may cover.
Short name set inArticle 17, paragraph (4), item (ii)· applies only in this provision and in Article 18, paragraph (2); and Article 22, paragraph (1)
certified management capacity improvement planmachine translation
「認定経営力向上計画」
A management capacity improvement plan (経営力向上計画) certified under Article 17, paragraph (1), as changed where a change has been certified.
Short name set inArticle 18, paragraph (2)
administrative agencymachine translation
「行政庁」
The authority that approves a management innovation plan (経営革新計画), which Article 72, paragraph (1) sets by the kind of plan: the governor of the prefecture where the main office is, for a plan an individual specified business operator (個別特定事業者) draws up alone; the governor of the prefecture, for one drawn up alone by a district association (地区組合) whose district lies within that prefecture; the governor of the one prefecture concerned, for a joint plan whose representatives all belong to that prefecture as item (iii) sets out; and otherwise the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry (経済産業大臣) together with the minister in charge of the business the plan covers.
Defined inArticle 72, paragraph (1)· applies throughout the law