# 食品衛生法 / Food Sanitation Act — 第四条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 4) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/suppl-5051-52/art-4. 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: 第四条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 4)（食品衛生法の一部改正に伴う経過措置） — address `suppl-5051-52/art-4` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/suppl-5051-52/art-4 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/suppl-5051-52/art-4 - 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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第四条（食品衛生法の一部改正に伴う経過措置） — Transitional Measures Accompanying Partial Amendment of the Food Sanitation Act caption: machine translation, not official suppl-5051-52/art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/suppl-5051-52/art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/suppl-5051-52/art-4 **第一項** 第二条の規定による改正後の食品衛生法（以下この条において「新食品衛生法」という。）第五十六条（新食品衛生法第五十七条第二項（新食品衛生法第六十八条第一項及び第三項において準用する場合を含む。）及び第六十八条第一項において準用する場合を含む。）の規定は、施行日前に食品衛生法第四条第七項に規定する営業（新食品衛生法第六十八条第三項に規定する場合を含む。次項において単に「営業」という。）の譲渡があった場合における当該営業を譲り受けた者については、適用しない。 suppl-5051-52/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/suppl-5051-52/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/suppl-5051-52/art-4/par-1 The provisions of Article 56 of the Food Sanitation Act as amended by the provisions of Article 2 (hereinafter in this Article referred to as the "New Food Sanitation Act") (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 57, paragraph (2) of the New Food Sanitation Act (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 68, paragraphs (1) and (3) of the New Food Sanitation Act) and Article 68, paragraph (1) of the New Food Sanitation Act) do not apply to a person who has taken over business (meaning business prescribed in Article 4, paragraph (7) of the Food Sanitation Act (including the case prescribed in Article 68, paragraph (3) of the New Food Sanitation Act); referred to simply as "business" in the following paragraph) in the case where that business was transferred before the Effective Date. machine translation, not official **第二項** 都道府県知事は、当分の間、新食品衛生法第五十六条第一項（新食品衛生法第五十七条第二項（新食品衛生法第六十八条第一項及び第三項において準用する場合を含む。）及び第六十八条第一項において準用する場合を含む。）の規定により許可営業者又は届出営業者の地位を承継した者（営業の譲渡により当該地位を承継した者に限る。）の業務の状況について、当該地位が承継された日から起算して六月を経過するまでの間において、少なくとも一回調査しなければならない。 suppl-5051-52/art-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/suppl-5051-52/art-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/suppl-5051-52/art-4/par-2 A prefectural governor must, for the time being, investigate at least once the status of operations of a person who has succeeded to the position of an approved business operator or a notifying business operator pursuant to the provisions of Article 56, paragraph (1) of the New Food Sanitation Act (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 57, paragraph (2) of the New Food Sanitation Act (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 68, paragraphs (1) and (3) of the New Food Sanitation Act) and Article 68, paragraph (1) of the New Food Sanitation Act) (limited to a person who has succeeded to that position by transfer of business), during the period until six months elapse counting from the day on which that position was succeeded to. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-5051-52/art-4/par-1: この条 → 食品衛生法 附則第四条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 4), suppl-5051-52/art-4 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/suppl-5051-52/art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/suppl-5051-52/art-4 - suppl-5051-52/art-4/par-1: 第五十六条 → 食品衛生法 第五十六条 (Article 56), art-56 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-56 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-56 - suppl-5051-52/art-4/par-1: 新食品衛生法第五十七条第二項 → 食品衛生法 第五十七条第二項 (Article 57, paragraph (2)), art-57/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-57/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-57/par-2 - suppl-5051-52/art-4/par-1: 新食品衛生法第六十八条第一項 → 食品衛生法 第六十八条第一項 (Article 68, paragraph (1)), art-68/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-68/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-68/par-1 - suppl-5051-52/art-4/par-1: 第三項 → 食品衛生法 第六十八条第三項 (Article 68, paragraph (3)), art-68/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-68/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-68/par-3 - suppl-5051-52/art-4/par-1: 食品衛生法第四条第七項 → 食品衛生法 第四条第七項 (Article 4, paragraph (7)), art-4/par-7 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-4/par-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-4/par-7 - suppl-5051-52/art-4/par-1: 次項 → 食品衛生法 附則第四条第二項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 4, paragraph (2)), suppl-5051-52/art-4/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/suppl-5051-52/art-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/suppl-5051-52/art-4/par-2 - suppl-5051-52/art-4/par-2: 新食品衛生法第五十六条第一項 → 食品衛生法 第五十六条第一項 (Article 56, paragraph (1)), art-56/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-56/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-56/par-1 - suppl-5051-52/art-4/par-2: 新食品衛生法第五十七条第二項 → 食品衛生法 第五十七条第二項 (Article 57, paragraph (2)), art-57/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-57/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-57/par-2 - suppl-5051-52/art-4/par-2: 新食品衛生法第六十八条第一項 → 食品衛生法 第六十八条第一項 (Article 68, paragraph (1)), art-68/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-68/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-68/par-1 - suppl-5051-52/art-4/par-2: 第三項 → 食品衛生法 第六十八条第三項 (Article 68, paragraph (3)), art-68/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-68/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-68/par-3 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 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/ja/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 附則第十二条第一項（政令への委任） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/suppl-5051-52/art-12/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/suppl-5051-52/art-12/par-1 --- ## 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-20261102T225259-009, 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-20261102T225259-009, 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