When a person who has obtained the approval referred to in paragraph (1) of the preceding Article (referred to as an "approved business operator" below in this Article) has transferred their business, or an inheritance, a merger, or a split (limited to one by which the business is succeeded to) for an approved business operator has been implemented, a person who has been transferred the business, or an heir (if there are two or more heirs, and an heir that is to succeed to the business has been selected by the consent of all the heirs, that heir), a corporation surviving the merger, a corporation established by the merger, or a corporation succeeding to the business by the split is to succeed to the status of the approved business operator.
A person who has succeeded to the status of the approved business operator pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph must notify the prefectural governor to that effect without delay, by attaching a document proving that fact.
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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
approved business operator
「許可営業者」
In Article 56, a person who has obtained the prefectural governor's permission under Article 55, paragraph (1) to run a business of a kind Article 54 covers; their status passes to whoever takes the business over by transfer, inheritance, merger or company split.
Short name set inArticle 56, paragraph (1)· applies only in this article