# 食品衛生法 / Food Sanitation Act — 第三条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 3) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/suppl-3221-233/art-3. 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: 第三条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 3) — address `suppl-3221-233/art-3` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/suppl-3221-233/art-3 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/suppl-3221-233/art-3 - 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. --- ### 第三条 suppl-3221-233/art-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/suppl-3221-233/art-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/suppl-3221-233/art-3 **第一項** この法律の施行の際現に前条の規定による廃止前の飲食物その他の物品取締に関する法律に基づく命令の規定による営業の許可を受けて当該営業を営んでいる者は、当該営業が第五十二条第一項の規定により許可を必要とする営業である場合においては、これを同項の規定による許可を受けた者とみなす。 suppl-3221-233/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/suppl-3221-233/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/suppl-3221-233/art-3/par-1 A person who, at the time this Act comes into effect, has obtained approval of business under the provisions of an order based on the Act on Control of Foods and Drinks and Other Articles prior to its repeal under the provisions of the preceding Article and is actually operating that business is deemed, in the case where that business is a business requiring approval under the provisions of Article 52, paragraph (1), to be a person who has obtained approval under the provisions of that paragraph. machine translation, not official **第二項** 第五十二条第三項の規定は、前項の規定による許可について準用する。 suppl-3221-233/art-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/suppl-3221-233/art-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/suppl-3221-233/art-3/par-2 The provisions of Article 52, paragraph (3) apply mutatis mutandis to the approval under the provisions of the preceding paragraph. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-3221-233/art-3/par-1: 前条 → 食品衛生法 附則第二条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 2), suppl-3221-233/art-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/suppl-3221-233/art-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/suppl-3221-233/art-2 - suppl-3221-233/art-3/par-2: 前項 → 食品衛生法 附則第三条第一項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 3, paragraph (1)), suppl-3221-233/art-3/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/suppl-3221-233/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/suppl-3221-233/art-3/par-1 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 食品衛生法 附則第三条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/suppl-3221-233/art-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/suppl-3221-233/art-3/par-2 --- ## Sources - 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 — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/5024/tb), retrieved 2026-11-02 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch food-sanitation-act-20261102T225259-002, translated 2026-11-03 - claude-sonnet-5-5, corrected on review by claude-opus-5-5 — Machine translation corrected on review, batch food-sanitation-act-20261102T225259-002, translated 2026-11-03 - This site's parser, version 220 — 食品衛生法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-02