Article 1This Cabinet Order comes into effect on February 1, 1963.

Article 2(1)If, before the enforcement of the Act Partially Revising the Fishery Act (Act No. 156 of 1962, hereinafter referred to as the "Revisionary Act"), a type of fishing industry is required to receive the permission provided for in the provisions of paragraph (1) of Article 52 or paragraph (1) of Article 66-2 of the Fishery Act before its revision pursuant to the Revisionary Act (hereinafter referred to as "the Former Act"), or is required to receive approval pursuant to the provisions of the Ministerial Ordinance based on paragraph (1) of Article 65 of the Former Act (hereinafter referred to collectively as "permission under the Former Act"), if a person who has received permission under the Former Act for a fishing industry set forth as a designated fishing industry in paragraph (1) of Article 52 of the Fishery Act as revised pursuant to the Revisionary Act (hereinafter referred to as "the New Act") (hereinafter this type of fishing is referred to simply as "a designated fishing industry") (hereinafter this designated fishing industry is referred to as a "changing sector of the designated fishing industry") falls under any of the following items pursuant to the provisions of this Cabinet Order by the day before this Cabinet Order comes into effect (hereinafter referred to as the "effective date") and the permission under the Former Act that the person applies for or approval or the application for business commencement in connection with it has not been denied, it is deemed to be a case that falls under the items of Article 59 of the New Act, and if the application is connected with the medium-scale purse seine fishing industry provided for in paragraph (2) of Article 66-2 of the Former Act, the application is deemed to have been submitted to the competent minister and the provisions of Article 59 of the New Act apply. When such is the case, the phrase "the contents of previous permission or permission for business commencement" in the same Article is deemed to be replaced with "the contents of previous permission or permission for business commencement pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) of Article 52, Article 54 or paragraph (1) of Article 66-2 of the Fishery Act before its revision (hereinafter referred to as "the Former Act") pursuant to the Act Partially Revising the Fishery Act (Act No. 156 of 1962) or pursuant to the provisions of Ministerial Ordinance or prefectural ordinance based on paragraph (1) of Article 65 of the Former Act":

(2)The preceding paragraph also applies when a person who is transferred, borrows from, or has a vessel for which permission under the Former Act has been given for a changing sector of the designated fishing industry returned to him/her by the person that was granted that permission under the Former Act, or a person who obtains the right to use such a vessel for reasons other than inheritance or merger, who seeks to engage in the fishing industry, applies for permission under the Former Act for a changing sector of the designated fishing industry with the vessel or applies for approval for business commencement in relation to it by the day before the effective date, and the application for permission under the Former Act or approval or the application for business commencement in connection with it has not been denied.

(3)In a case under the preceding two paragraphs, the period of validity for the permission in a designated fishing industry set forth in the provisions of Article 59 of the New Act and the period of validity for the approval in a designated fishing industry in connection with approval for business commencement set forth pursuant to the provisions of same Article expires on the day specified by Cabinet Order referred to in paragraph (2) of Article 4 of the supplementary provisions of the Amended Act for each sector of the designated fishing industry.

(4)In a case under paragraph (1) or (2), if an application under the relevant paragraph relates to medium-scale purse seine fishing as provided in paragraph (2) of Article 66-2 of the Former Act, the prefectural governor shall send a complete set of the documents related to the application without delay to the Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries after the enforcement of this Cabinet Order.

Article 4(1)With regard to the application of the provisions of paragraph (1) of Article 4 of the supplementary provisions of the Revised Act to permission under the Former Act or to an approval for business commencement for a person to whom permission under the Former Act or a single approval for business commencement in connection with permission under the Former Act has actually been given for two or more sectors of the fishing industry that are categorized as sectors of the designated fishing industry provided for in each item of paragraph (1) of the main provisions (hereinafter in this Article referred to as a "sectors of the fishing industry categorized as sectors of the designated fishing industry") with a single vessel at the time of the enforcement of this Cabinet Order, permission under the Former Act or the approval for business commencement is deemed to have become permission pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) of Article 52 of the New Act or approval for business commencement pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) of Article 54 of the New Act for each sector of the designated fishing industry using the relevant vessel, for the portion of the previous contents that corresponds to each of the two or more sectors of the fishing industry categorized as sectors of the designated fishing industry.

(2)With regard to the application of the provisions of each of the items of paragraph (1) or (2) of Article 2 of the supplementary provisions to when an application under the same paragraphs is a single application for permission under the Former Act or a single application for approval for business commencement in connection with permission under the Former Act for two or more sectors of the fishing industry categorized as sectors of the designated fishing industry with a single vessel, the application is deemed to be an application for permission under the Former Act or for approval for business commencement in connection with permission under the Former Act for a sector of the fishing industry categorized as a designated fishing industry with the vessel, for the portion of the contents that corresponds to each of the two or more sectors of the fishing industry categorized as sectors of the designated fishing industry. When such is the case, the phrase "is deemed to be replaced with 'the contents of previous permission or permission for business commencement pursuant to [...]' " in paragraph (1) of Article 2 of the supplementary provisions is deemed to be replaced with "is deemed to be replaced with 'the portion of the contents that corresponds to a sector of the fishing industry categorized as a sector of the designated fishing industry, from among the contents of previous permission or approval for business commencement pursuant to [...]' and 'designated fishing industry' is deemed to be replaced with 'the relevant designated fishing industry.' "

(3)In a case under paragraph (1) of the preceding Article, if a person who has received the permission under the Former Act provided for in each item of the same paragraph is a person who has received permission under the Former Act for two or more sectors of the fishing industry categorized as sectors of the designated fishing industry with a single vessel, an application for permission in a designated fishing industry or for approval for business commencement filed by a person who has received permission under the Former Act pursuant to the provisions of the same paragraph must be filed separately for each of the sectors of the designated fishing industry for the vessel or for another vessel, using a single set of contents constituting the portion of the contents of the previous permission that corresponds to each sector of the fishing industry categorized as a sector of the designated fishing industry. In a case under paragraph (2) of the same Article, if a person who could have filed an application under each item of the same paragraph is a person who could have filed an application for a single permission under the Former Act or for approval for business commencement in connection with a single permission under the Former Act for two or more sectors of the fishing industry categorized as sectors of the designated fishing industry for a single vessel, the same applies to an application, filed by a person who could have filed one of the former types of application, for permission in a designated fishing industry pursuant to the provisions of the same paragraph or for approval for business commencement in connection with it, that constitutes a sector of the fishing industry categorized as a sector of the designated fishing industry that is related to the permission under the Former Act or approval for business commencement in connection with it.

(4)The provisions of the second sentence of paragraph (2) apply mutatis mutandis when the provisions of the second sentence of paragraph (1) of Article 2 of the supplementary provisions apply mutatis mutandis to permission in a designated fishing industry or approval for business commencement pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (4) of the preceding Article in relation to an application pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph.

Article 6(1)With regard to the application of the provisions of paragraph (1) of Article 4 of the supplementary provisions of the Revised Act to permission under the Former Act or approval for business commencement when, as of the time of enforcement of this Cabinet Order, a single person has received two or more permissions under the Former Act or approvals for business commencement in connection with two or more permissions under the Former Act for a changing sector of the large and medium-scale purse seine fisheryfor a single vessel, such permissions under the Former Act are deemed to have become a single permission pursuant to the provisions of Article 52 of the New Act and such approvals for business commencement are deemed to have become a single approval for business commencement pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) of Article 54 of the New Act, with a content that encompasses the content of the previous permissions under the Former Act or the previous approvals for business commencement. When such is the case, with regard to the application of the provisions of paragraph (2) of Article 4 of the supplementary provisions of the Revised Act to a constructive permission or approval for business commencement, the remaining period under the same paragraph is the longest of the remaining periods for the two or more permissions under the Former Act.

(2)With regard to the application of the provisions of paragraph (1) or (2) of Article 2 or paragraph (3) of Article 3 of the supplementary provisions when two or more applications pursuant to paragraph (1) or (2) of Article 2 of the supplementary provisions or the provisions of paragraph (1) or (2) of Article 3 of the supplementary provisions have been filed by a single person for permission under the Former Act for a changing sector of the large and medium-scale purse seine fishery or for approval for business commencement in connection with it for a single vessel, these two or more applications are deemed to be a single application for permission under the Former Act or a single application for approval for business commencement in connection with permission under the Former Act, with a content that encompasses that of the two or more applications. When such is the case, the phrase "the contents of a previous permission or approval for business commencement pursuant to the provisions" in the second sentence of paragraph (1) of Article 2 of the supplementary provisions (including when applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to paragraph (4) of Article 3 of the supplementary provisions) is deemed to be replaced with "a content that encompasses that of the two or more previous permissions or previous approvals for business commencement in the purse seine fishery (meaning a sector of the fishing industry that is categorized as the large or medium-scale purse seine fishery fishing industry) pursuant to the provisions."

(3)In a case under the preceding paragraph, when two or more applications are deemed to be a single application pursuant to the provisions of the same paragraph, the single application is deemed to be an application under the same paragraph in a case in which the relevant two or more applications include an application under paragraph (1) of Article 2 of the supplementary applications, and is deemed to be an application under the same paragraph in a case in which the two or more applications do not include an application under paragraph (1) of Article 2 of the supplementary provisions but include an application under paragraph (2) of the same Article that is deemed to be an application under the provisions of paragraph (1) of Article 3 of the supplementary provisions in other cases.

Article 7(1)When a person who has received permission under the Former Act or approval for business commencement connected with it for a changing sector of the designated fishing industry that is categorized as the deep-sea bonito and tuna fishing industry listed in item (x) of paragraph (1) of the main provisions using a powered fishing boat with a gross tonnage of 40 tons or more and less than 100 tons engages in another sector of the fishing industry using the vessel that received that permission under the Former Act or the approval for business commencement in connection with it, if that permission under the Former Act is one that the Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries designates as having a valid period (or, for an approval for business commencement, a planned valid period for the permission under the Former Act connected with the approval for business commencement) of within six months, in accordance with the business status of combined operations, and if it is deemed to be permission or approval for business commencement that has been given in the deep-sea bonito and tuna fishing industry pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) of Article 52 or paragraph (1) of Article 54 of the New Act or pursuant to paragraph (1) of Article 4 of Supplementary Provisions of the Revisionary Act, the operating period in the deep-sea bonito and tuna fishing industry in connection with the permission or approval for business commencement is the period of no longer than six months that is set forth annually by the Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries.

(2)The designation of the permission under the Former Act and the setting forth of the operating period pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph must be effected by public notice, and when the Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries has effected the designation and specification, he/she shall notify a person who is deemed to have received the permission or approval for business commencement of the designation and specification without delay.

Article 1This Cabinet Order comes into force as of April 1, 2002.

Article 2(1)A person who has received approval from the Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries pursuant to the provisions of Ordinance of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries based on the provisions of paragraph (1) of Article 65 of the Fishery Act in a sector of the fishing industry categorized as the coastal bonito and tuna fishing industry listed in item (ix) of paragraph (1), the Sea of Japan red snow crab fishing industry listed in item (xii) of the same paragraph or the squid jigging fishing industry listed in item (xiii) of the same paragraph after its revision at the time of the enforcement of this Cabinet Order is deemed to have received permission in a designated fishing industry pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) of Article 52 of the same Act, with the same contents and restrictions or conditions as the contents and restrictions or conditions for which the person had previously received approval for the vessel that had received the approval. When such is the case, the valid period of the constructive permission must be set to expire on July 31, 2002, notwithstanding the provisions of Article 60 of the same Act.

(2)A license certificate showing permission may not be issued to a person who is deemed to have received permission in a designated fishing industry pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) of Article 52 of the Fishery Act pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph.

Article 3The provisions of paragraph (1) of Article 52 of the Fishery Act do not apply until July 31, 2002, to a sector of the fishing that is categorized as the coastal bonito and tuna fishing industry listed in item (ix) of paragraph (1) after the revision from a powered fishing boat with a gross tonnage of 10 tons or more and less than 20 tons by angling, that the person engaged in that fishing industry continues to engage in at the time of the enforcement of this Cabinet Order.

Article 4With regard to the application of penal provisions to activities engaged in prior to the enforcement of this Cabinet Order, the provisions then in force remain applicable.