# 食品衛生法 / Food Sanitation Act — 第五十六条 (Article 56) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-56. Every law, and how to address a provision: https://japanlaw.org/llms.txt. The same laws as MCP tools (no sign-in): https://japanlaw.org/mcp. - Law: 食品衛生法 (Food Sanitation Act), 昭和二十二年法律第二百三十三号 - English title "Food Sanitation Act": Ministry of Justice translation - Kind: Act — the distinction between 法律 (Act), 政令 (Cabinet Order), 省令 (Ministerial Order) and 条例 (local ordinance) decides who may issue it and what it may say. - Provision: 第五十六条 (Article 56) — address `art-56` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-56 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-56 - Every provision below carries its address and both URLs on the line under it. - Japanese text: e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁). English: as marked on each line below. Only the Japanese as published by the government has legal effect; the text below is a copy of it. Every English rendering below is a translation and says which kind: the Ministry of Justice's translation, or this site's machine translation, whose model and date the Sources list names. They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第五十六条 art-56 · https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-56 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-56 **第一項** 前条第一項の許可を受けた者（以下この条において「許可営業者」という。）が当該営業を譲渡し、又は許可営業者について相続、合併若しくは分割（当該営業を承継させるものに限る。）があつたときは、当該営業を譲り受けた者又は相続人（相続人が二人以上ある場合において、その全員の同意により当該営業を承継すべき相続人を選定したときは、その者）、合併後存続する法人若しくは合併により設立された法人若しくは分割により当該営業を承継した法人は、許可営業者の地位を承継する。 art-56/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-56/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-56/par-1 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. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "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 that has the approved business operator succeed to the business) 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." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/5024/tb **第二項** 前項の規定により許可営業者の地位を承継した者は、遅滞なく、その事実を証する書面を添えて、その旨を都道府県知事に届け出なければならない。 art-56/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-56/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-56/par-2 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. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-56/par-1: 前条第一項 → 食品衛生法 第五十五条第一項 (Article 55, paragraph (1)), art-55/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-55/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-55/par-1 - art-56/par-1: この条 → 食品衛生法 第五十六条 (Article 56), art-56 — https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-56 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-56 - art-56/par-2: 前項 → 食品衛生法 第五十六条第一項 (Article 56, paragraph (1)), art-56/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-56/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-56/par-1 ## Cited by 7 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 食品衛生法 第五十六条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-56/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-56/par-1 - 食品衛生法 第五十六条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-56/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-56/par-2 - 食品衛生法 第五十七条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-57/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-57/par-2 - 食品衛生法 第六十八条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-68/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-68/par-1 - 食品衛生法 第七十六条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-76/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-76/par-1 - 食品衛生法 附則第四条第一項（食品衛生法の一部改正に伴う経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/suppl-5051-52/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/suppl-5051-52/art-4/par-1 - 食品衛生法 附則第四条第二項（食品衛生法の一部改正に伴う経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/suppl-5051-52/art-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/suppl-5051-52/art-4/par-2 --- ## Sources - claude-opus-5-5 — Corrections to the Ministry of Justice's English of the Food Sanitation Act, written 2026-11-03 - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 食品衛生法 — the text in force from 2025-06-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/322AC0000000233/20250601_504AC0000000068), retrieved 2026-11-02 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Food Sanitation Act (食品衛生法), Article 56, paragraph (1) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/5024/tb), retrieved 2026-11-02 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Food Sanitation Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/5024/tb), retrieved 2026-11-02 - This site's parser, version 220 — 食品衛生法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-02