①If a corporation that constitutes a hotelier undergoes a merger (other than a merger between a corporation constituting a hotelier and a corporation not constituting a hotelier which the corporation constituting a hotelier survives) or a corporate split (but only one in which it has another person succeed to its hotel business), and the merger or split has been approved by the prefectural governor, the corporation surviving the merger, the corporation incorporated in the merger, or the corporation succeeding to the hotel business in the split succeeds to the status of hotelier.

②The provisions of Article 3, paragraph (2) (limited to parts relating to the applicant) and paragraph (3) through paragraph (6) of that Article apply mutatis mutandis to the approval referred to in the preceding paragraph. In such a case, the term "the applicant" in paragraph (2) of that Article is deemed to be replaced with "the corporation surviving the merger, the corporation incorporated in the merger, or the corporation succeeding to the hotel business in the split".