第一条この法律は、農林漁業法人等に対する投資の円滑化を図るための特別の措置を講ずることにより、農林漁業及び食品産業の事業者の自己資本の充実を促進し、その健全な成長発展を図るとともに、農林漁業及び食品産業の事業者の事業の合理化、高度化その他の改善を支援する事業活動に対し資金供給を行い、もって農林漁業及び食品産業の持続的な発展に寄与することを目的とする。

Article 1The purpose of this Act is to promote the increase in equity capital of business operators in the agriculture, forestry, fisheries, and the food industry and to achieve their sound growth and development, as well as to provide funds for business activities that support the rationalization, sophistication, and any other improvement of the business of business operators in the agriculture, forestry, fisheries, and the food industry , and thereby contributing to the sustainable development of the agriculture, forestry, fisheries, and the food industry, by taking special measures to facilitate investment in agricultural, forestry, and fisheries corporations, etc.

第二条この法律において「農林漁業法人等」とは、次に掲げる法人をいう。

Article 2(1)The term "agricultural, forestry and fisheries corporation, etc." as used in this Act means a corporation listed as follows:

２この法律において「農林漁業法人等投資育成事業」とは、次に掲げる事業をいう。

(2)The term "businesses that foster investment in agricultural, forestry and fisheries corporations, etc." as used in this Act means the following businesses:

３この法律において「投資事業有限責任組合」とは、投資事業有限責任組合契約に関する法律（平成十年法律第九十号）第二条第二項に規定する投資事業有限責任組合をいう。

(3)The term "investment limited partnership" as used in this Act means an investment limited partnership as prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (2) of the Limited Partnership Act for Investment (Act No. 90 of 1998).

４この法律において「農林水産物」には、これを原料又は材料として製造し、又は加工したもの（次項に規定するものを除く。）であって、農林水産省令で定めるものを含むものとする。

(4)The term "agricultural, forestry and fishery products" as used in this Act to include products manufactured or processed by using these products as raw materials or ingredients (excluding those prescribed in the following paragraph) and specified by Order of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries.

５この法律において「食品」とは、全ての飲食物（医薬品、医療機器等の品質、有効性及び安全性の確保等に関する法律（昭和三十五年法律第百四十五号）第二条第一項に規定する医薬品、同条第二項に規定する医薬部外品及び同条第九項に規定する再生医療等製品を除く。）をいう。

(5)The term "food" as used in this Act means all food and drink (excluding pharmaceuticals provided in Article 2, paragraph (1) of the Act on Securing Quality, Efficacy and Safety of Products Including Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices (Act No. 145 of 1960), quasi-pharmaceutical products provided in paragraph (2) of the same Article, and regenerative medicine products provided in paragraph (9) of the same Article).

第三条農林漁業法人等投資育成事業を営もうとする株式会社（農林漁業法人等投資育成事業を営む株式会社を設立しようとする者を含む。）又は農林漁業法人等投資育成事業を営もうとする投資事業有限責任組合は、農林水産省令で定めるところにより、当該農林漁業法人等投資育成事業に関する計画（以下「事業計画」という。）を作成し、これを農林水産大臣に提出して、その事業計画が適当である旨の承認を受けることができる。

Article 3(1)A stock company that intends to engage in business that fosters investment in agricultural, forestry, and fisheries corporations, etc. (including a person that intends to establish a stock company that engages in business that fosters investment in agricultural, forestry, and fisheries corporations, etc.) or an investment limited partnership that intends to engage in business that fosters investment in agricultural, forestry, and fisheries corporations, etc. may prepare a plan concerning the business that fosters investment in agricultural, forestry, and fisheries corporations, etc. (hereinafter referred to as a "business plan"), submit it to the Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, and obtain approval that the business plan is appropriate, as provided for by Order of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries.

２事業計画には、次に掲げる事項を記載しなければならない。

(2)A business plan must include the following particulars:

３前項第二号に規定する農林漁業法人等に前条第一項第五号に掲げる法人が含まれる場合にあっては、前項第三号から第五号までに規定する選定の基準として、当該法人が行う事業活動の内容を記載するものとする。

(3)If a corporation stated in paragraph (1), item (v) of the preceding Article is included in the agricultural, forestry, and fisheries corporations, etc. prescribed in item (ii) of the preceding paragraph, the details of the business activities conducted by the corporations are to be stated as the standards for selection prescribed in items (iii) through (v) of the preceding paragraph.

４第二項第二号に規定する農林漁業法人等に外国法人である農林漁業法人等が含まれる場合にあっては、同項第三号から第五号までに規定する選定の基準として、当該外国法人である農林漁業法人等が営む事業又はその行う事業活動の実施地域及び分野並びに当該外国法人である農林漁業法人等と我が国の農林漁業又は食品産業の事業者（第十二条第一項において「国内事業者」という。）との関連性を記載するものとする。

(4)If agricultural, forestry, and fisheries corporations, etc. as prescribed in paragraph (2), item (ii) includes agricultural, forestry, and fisheries corporations, etc. that are foreign corporations, as the standards for selection prescribed in items (iii) through (v) of the same paragraph, the regions and fields in which the businesses operated by the agricultural, forestry, and fisheries corporations, etc. that are foreign corporations or the business activities conducted thereby are to be implemented, and the relationship between the agricultural, forestry, and fisheries corporations, etc. that are foreign corporation and Japanese business operators in the agricultural, forestry, and fisheries industry or food industry (referred to as "domestic business operators" in Article 12, paragraph (1)) are to be stated.

５農林水産大臣は、第一項の承認の申請があった場合において、その事業計画が次の各号のいずれにも適合するものであると認めるときは、その承認をするものとする。

(5)If an application has been filed for the approval referred to in paragraph (1) and the Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries finds the Annual Objective Plan to conform to all of the following items, the minister is to approve the plan:

第四条前条第一項の承認を受けた者（その者の設立に係る同項の株式会社を含む。）は、当該承認に係る事業計画を変更しようとするときは、農林水産大臣の承認を受けなければならない。

Article 4(1)A person who has obtained the approval referred to in paragraph (1) of the preceding Article (including a stock company related to the establishment by the person referred to in that paragraph) must obtain the approval from the Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries if the person intends to change the business plan pertaining to the approval.

２前条第五項の規定は、前項の承認について準用する。

(2)The provisions of paragraph (5) of the preceding Article apply mutatis mutandis to the approval referred to in the preceding paragraph.

第五条農林水産大臣は、第三条第一項の承認を受けた株式会社（同項の承認を受けた者の設立に係る同項の株式会社を含む。以下「承認会社」という。）又は同項の承認を受けた投資事業有限責任組合（以下「承認組合」という。）の無限責任組合員に対し、農林漁業法人等投資育成事業の実施状況について報告を求めることができる。

Article 5The Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries may request the unlimited liability partner of a stock company that has obtained the approval referred to in Article 3, paragraph (1) (including a stock company set forth in the same paragraph established by a person that has obtained the approval referred to in the same paragraph; hereinafter referred to as an "approved company") or an investment limited partnership that has obtained the approval referred to in the same paragraph (hereinafter referred to as an "approved partnership") to report on the implementation status of the business that fosters investment in agricultural, forestry, and fisheries corporations, etc.

第六条農林水産大臣は、承認会社又は承認組合が第三条第一項の承認に係る事業計画（第四条第一項の規定による変更の承認があったときは、その変更後のもの。以下「承認事業計画」という。）に従って農林漁業法人等投資育成事業を営んでいないと認めるときは、当該承認会社又は当該承認組合の無限責任組合員に対し、相当の期限を定めて、その改善に必要な措置をとるべきことを命ずることができる。

Article 6If the Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries finds that an approved company or an approved partnership is not engaging in business that fosters investment in agricultural, forestry, and fisheries corporations, etc. in accordance with the business plan concerning the approval referred to in Article 3, paragraph (1) (when a change has been approved pursuant to the provisions of Article 4, paragraph (1), the changed business plan; hereinafter referred to as the "approved business plan"), the Minister may order the unlimited liability partner of the approved company or the approved partnership to take necessary measures for the improvement, by setting a reasonable period of time.

第七条農林水産大臣は、承認会社又は承認組合の無限責任組合員が前条の規定による命令に違反したときは、第三条第一項の承認を取り消すことができる。

Article 7If the unlimited liability partner of the approved company or the approved partnership violates an order under the provisions of the preceding Article, the Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries may rescind the approval referred to in Article 3, paragraph (1).

第八条株式会社日本政策金融公庫は、株式会社日本政策金融公庫法（平成十九年法律第五十七号）第十一条に規定する業務のほか、農林漁業法人等に対する民間の投資を補完するため、承認会社又は承認組合が承認事業計画に従って農林漁業法人等投資育成事業を営むのに必要な資金の出資の業務を行うことができる。

Article 8(1)In addition to the business provided for in Article 11 of the Japan Finance Corporation Act (Act No. 57 of 2007), in order to supplement private-sector investment in agricultural, forestry, and fisheries corporations, etc., a Japan Finance Corporation may engage in the business of contributing funds necessary for an approved company or the approved partnership to engage in business that fosters investment in agricultural, forestry, and fisheries corporations, etc. in accordance with an approved business plan.

２前項に規定する資金の出資は、当該出資に係る農林漁業法人等投資育成事業からの配当の支払を可能とする利益の発生が確実であると認められる場合に限り、農林水産大臣及び財務大臣の認可を受けて行うことができるものとする。

(2)The contribution of funds prescribed in the preceding paragraph may be made with the approval of the Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries and the Minister of Finance only if it is found that profits enabling the payment of dividends are certain to accrue from the business that fosters investment in agricultural, forestry, and fisheries corporations, etc. related to the contribution.

３第一項の規定により株式会社日本政策金融公庫が行う同項に規定する資金の出資についての株式会社日本政策金融公庫法第十一条第一項第六号、第十二条第一項、第三十一条第二項第一号ロ、第四十一条第二号、第五十八条、第五十九条第一項、第六十四条第一項第四号及び第七十三条第三号の規定の適用については、同法第十一条第一項第六号中「掲げる業務」とあるのは「掲げる業務及び農林漁業法人等に対する投資の円滑化に関する特別措置法（平成十四年法律第五十二号。以下「特別措置法」という。）第八条第一項に規定する業務」と、同法第十二条第一項中「掲げる業務」とあるのは「掲げる業務及び特別措置法第八条第一項に規定する業務」と、同法第三十一条第二項第一号ロ、第四十一条第二号及び第六十四条第一項第四号中「同項第五号」とあるのは「特別措置法第八条第一項に規定する業務並びに第十一条第一項第五号」と、同法第五十八条及び第五十九条第一項中「この法律」とあるのは「この法律、特別措置法」と、同法第七十三条第三号中「第十一条」とあるのは「第十一条及び特別措置法第八条第一項」とする。

(3)With regard to the application of the provisions of Article 11, paragraph (1), item (vi), Article 12, paragraph (1), Article 31, paragraph (2), item (i), (b), Article 41, item (ii), Article 58, Article 59, paragraph (1), Article 64, paragraph (1), item (iv), and Article 73, item (iii) of the Japan Finance Corporation Act to the contribution of funds prescribed in paragraph (1) by a Japan Finance Corporation pursuant to the provisions of the same paragraph, the term "business listed in item (vi) of paragraph (1)" in Article 11, paragraph (1), item (vi) of the same Act is deemed to be replaced with "business listed in item (vi) of paragraph (1) of this Article and business prescribed in Article 8, paragraph (1) of the Act on Special Measures to Facilitate Investment in Agricultural, Forestry, and Fisheries Corporations (Act No. 52 of 2002; hereinafter referred to as the" Act on Special Measures ")"; the term "business listed in item (v) of the same paragraph" in Article 12, paragraph (1) of the same Act is deemed to be replaced with "business listed in item (i) of paragraph (1) of this Article and business prescribed in Article 8, paragraph (1) of the Act on Special Measures"; the term "item (v) of the same paragraph" in Article 31, paragraph (2), item (i), (b), Article 41, item (ii), and Article 64, paragraph (1), item (iv) of the same Act is deemed to be replaced with "business prescribed in.

第九条承認会社が承認事業計画に従って農林漁業法人等投資育成事業を営む場合における当該承認会社についての農業協同組合法（昭和二十二年法律第百三十二号）第七十二条の十三第一項の規定の適用については、同項中「次に掲げる者」とあるのは、「次に掲げる者及び当該農事組合法人に農林漁業法人等に対する投資の円滑化に関する特別措置法（平成十四年法律第五十二号）第六条に規定する承認事業計画に従つて同法第二条第二項に規定する農林漁業法人等投資育成事業に係る投資を行つた同法第五条に規定する承認会社」とする。

Article 9With regard to the application of the provisions of Article 72-13, paragraph (1) of the agricultural cooperative and Harbor Act (Act No. 132 of 1947) to an approved company that engages in the business that fosters investments by agricultural, forestry, and fisheries corporations, etc. in accordance with an approved business plan, the phrase "the following persons" in the same paragraph is deemed to be replaced with "the following persons and an approved company as prescribed in Article 5 of the Act on Special Measures to Facilitate Investment in Agricultural, Forestry, and Fisheries Corporations (Act No. 52 of 2002) that has invested in the agricultural cooperative in relation to the business that fosters investments by agricultural, forestry, and fisheries corporations, etc. as prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (2) of the same Act in accordance with an approved business plan as prescribed in Article 6 of the same Act".

第十条承認会社であって、地方公共団体、農業協同組合、農業協同組合連合会、農林中央金庫又は株式会社日本政策金融公庫がその総株主の議決権の過半数を有しているものが、承認事業計画に従って農林漁業法人等投資育成事業を営む場合における当該承認会社についての農地法（昭和二十七年法律第二百二十九号）第二条第三項第二号の規定の適用については、同号中「次に掲げる者に該当する株主」とあるのは「次に掲げる者又はその法人に承認事業計画（農林漁業法人等に対する投資の円滑化に関する特別措置法（平成十四年法律第五十二号）第六条に規定する承認事業計画をいう。）に従つて農林漁業法人等投資育成事業（同法第二条第二項に規定する農林漁業法人等投資育成事業をいう。）に係る投資を行つた承認会社（同法第五条に規定する承認会社をいう。）に該当する株主」と、「次に掲げる者に該当する社員」とあるのは「次に掲げる者又は当該承認会社に該当する社員」とする。

Article 10Regarding the application of the provisions of Article 2, paragraph (3), item (ii) of the Cropland Act (Act No. 229 of 1952) to an approved company in the case where the approved company, the majority of whose voting rights of all shareholders are held by a local government, an agricultural cooperative, a federation of agricultural cooperatives, the Norinchukin Bank, or the Japan Finance Corporation, engages in a business that fosters investment in agricultural, forestry, and fisheries corporations, etc. in accordance with an approved business plan, the phrase "shareholders who fall under any of the following categories of person" in the same item is deemed to be replaced with "shareholders who fall under an approved company (meaning an approved company as prescribed in Article 5 of the Act on Special Measures to Facilitate Investment in Agricultural, Forestry, and Fisheries Corporations, etc. (Act No. 52 of 2002)) that has invested in a business that fosters investment in agricultural, forestry, and fisheries corporations, etc. (meaning a business that fosters investment in agricultural, forestry, and fisheries corporations, etc. as prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (2) of the same Act) in accordance with an approved business plan (meaning an approved business plan as prescribed in Article 6 of the same Act) for the following persons or their corporations" and the phrase "members who fall under any of the following categories" is deemed to be replaced with "members who fall under any of the following categories or the approved company".

第十一条承認会社が承認事業計画に従って農林漁業法人等投資育成事業を営む場合における当該承認会社についての水産業協同組合法（昭和二十三年法律第二百四十二号）第七十九条の規定の適用については、同条中「漁民」とあるのは、「漁民及び組合に農林漁業法人等に対する投資の円滑化に関する特別措置法（平成十四年法律第五十二号）第六条に規定する承認事業計画に従つて同法第二条第二項に規定する農林漁業法人等投資育成事業に係る投資を行つた同法第五条に規定する承認会社」とする。

Article 11Regarding the application of the provisions of Article 79 of the Fisheries Cooperatives Act (Act No. 242 of 1948) to an approved company that engages in business that fosters investment in agricultural, forestry, and fisheries corporations, etc. in accordance with an approved business plan, the term "fishers" in the same Article is deemed to be replaced with "an approved company as prescribed in Article 5 of the Act on Special Measures to Facilitate Investment in Agricultural, Forestry, and Fisheries Corporations, etc. (Act No. 52 of 2002) that has invested in business that fosters investment in agricultural, forestry, and fisheries corporations, etc. as prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (2) of the same Act in accordance with an approved business plan as prescribed in Article 6 of the same Act".

第十二条承認組合の組合員は、当該承認組合が承認事業計画（第三条第四項に規定する事項が記載されたものに限る。）に従って農林漁業法人等投資育成事業を営む場合においては、投資事業有限責任組合契約に関する法律第三条第一項の組合契約において、同項各号に掲げる事業のほか、各当事者が共同で、外国法人である農林漁業法人等の株式、新株予約権又は新株予約権付社債等の取得及び保有（当該取得及び保有の対象とする外国法人である農林漁業法人等が国内事業者と密接な関連性を有するとともに、当該外国法人である農林漁業法人等が営む事業又はその行う事業活動が当該国内事業者の事業の発展に寄与すると認められることについて、農林水産大臣の確認を受けた場合に限る。）の事業を営むことを約することができる。

Article 12(1)If an approved partnership engages in a business that fosters investments in agricultural, forestry, and fisheries corporations, etc. in accordance with an approved business plan (limited to a business plan that includes the particulars prescribed in Article 3, paragraph (4)), the partners of the approved partnership may, under a partnership agreement stated in Article 3, paragraph (1) of the Limited Partnership Act for Investment, promise to jointly engage in acquiring and holding shares, share options, or bonds with share options, etc. of agricultural, forestry, and fisheries corporations, etc. that are foreign corporations (limited to cases in which the parties have obtained confirmation from the Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries regarding the finding that the agricultural, forestry, and fisheries corporations, etc. that are foreign corporations subject to the acquiring and holding are closely related to a domestic business operator and that the businesses or business activities conducted by the agricultural, forestry, and fisheries corporations, etc. that are foreign corporations contribute to the development of the businesses of the domestic business operator), beyond the businesses stated in the items of the same paragraph.

２前項に規定する事業を営むことを約した承認組合の組合員に対する投資事業有限責任組合契約に関する法律第七条第四項の規定の適用については、同項中「第三条第一項に掲げる事業以外の行為」とあるのは「第三条第一項に掲げる事業及び農林漁業法人等に対する投資の円滑化に関する特別措置法（平成十四年法律第五十二号）第十二条第一項に規定する事業以外の行為」と、「同項に掲げる事業以外の行為」とあるのは「第三条第一項に掲げる事業及び同法第十二条第一項に規定する事業以外の行為」とする。

(2)Regarding the application of the provisions of Article 7, paragraph (4) of the Limited Partnership Act for Investment to partners of an approved partnership that has promised to engage in the business prescribed in the preceding paragraph, the phrase "acts other than the business activities listed in Article 3, paragraph (1)" in Article 7, paragraph (4) of the same Act is deemed to be replaced with "acts other than the business activities listed in Article 3, paragraph (1) of the Act, and the ones prescribed in Article 12, paragraph (1) of the Act on Special Measures to Facilitate Investment in Agricultural, Forestry, and Fishery Corporations (Act No. 52 of 2002)"; and the phrase "a business other than those listed in the same paragraph" in Article 7, paragraph (4) of the same Act is deemed to be replaced with "acts other than the business listed in Article 3, paragraph (1) and the business prescribed in Article 12, paragraph (1) of the Act".

第十三条第五条の規定による報告をせず、又は虚偽の報告をした者は、三十万円以下の罰金に処する。

Article 13(1)A person who has failed to make a report under the provisions of Article 5 or has made a false report is to be punished by a fine of not more than 300,000 yen.

２法人の代表者又は法人若しくは人の代理人、使用人その他の従業者が、その法人又は人の業務に関し、前項の違反行為をしたときは、行為者を罰するほか、その法人又は人に対して同項の刑を科する。

(2)If the representative of a corporation, or the agent, employee, or other worker of a corporation or an individual has committed a violation as referred to in the preceding paragraph in connection with the business of the corporation or individual, in addition to the offender being subject to punishment, the corporation or individual is subject to the punishment referred to in that paragraph.