Article 1When registering a training institute set forth in Article 12, paragraph (5), item (iii) of the Poultry Slaughtering Business Control and Poultry Meat Inspection Act (hereinafter referred to as "the Act"), the prefectural governor is to follow the criteria specified by Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Order with regard to the matters such as the qualification for enrollment, training term, and course subjects.

Article 2When intending to have a training institute registered under Article 12, paragraph (5), item (iii) of the Act, the establisher of the institute must submit a written application to the prefectural governor that governs the location of the institute pursuant to Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Order.

Article 3When there has been any changes to the matters specified by Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Order, the establisher of a training institute registered under Article 12, paragraph (5), item (iii) of the Act (hereinafter referred to as a "registered training institute") must notify the prefectural governor that governs the location of the institute of the change within one month from the date of change.

Article 4When considered necessary for a registered training institute, the prefectural governor may require its establisher to submit a report.

Article 5When a prefectural governor finds that a registered training institute no longer conforms to the criteria specified by Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Order prescribed in Article 1 or has received an application filed under the provisions of the following Article, the prefectural governor may revoke the institute's registration.

Article 6When intending to have the registration of a training institute by the prefectural governor revoked, the establisher of the registered training institute must submit a written application to the prefectural governor that governs the location of the institute pursuant to Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Order.

Article 7In any of the following cases, the prefectural governor must issue a public notice to that effect:

Article 8When intending to have a training session registered under Article 12, paragraph (5), item (iv) of the Act, the organizer of the training session must apply for registration with the prefectural governor of the location where the training session will be conducted, pursuant to Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Order.

Article 9A person falling under any of the following items may not obtain registration of a training session referred to in Article 12, paragraph (5), item (iv) of the Act:

Article 10When an organizer of a training session for which application for registration has been filed pursuant to the provisions of Article 8 organizes a training session pursuant to Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Order as referred to in Article 12, paragraph (7) of the Act, the prefectural governor must register the training session.

Article 11(1)The organizer of a training session registered under Article 12, paragraph (5), item (iv) of the Act (hereinafter referred to as a "registered training session") must formulate a plan for the implementation of the registered training session and implement the training session in accordance with the plan, unless there are legitimate grounds.

(2)The organizer of a registered training session must organize the registered training session in a manner that is fair and complies with the criteria specified by Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Order.

(3)The organizer of a registered training session must submit a plan formulated pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) to the prefectural governor of the location where the training session will be conducted, prior to organizing the session. The same applies to any change to be made thereto.

Article 12The organizer of a registered training session must notify the prefectural governor of the location where the registered training session will be conducted of any planned change to the matters specified by Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Order by two weeks before the date of the planned change.

Article 13When intending to suspend or discontinue the whole or part of operations pertaining to a registered training session, the organizer of the registered training session must submit the notification to that effect to the prefectural governor of the location where the registered training session will be conducted pursuant to Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Order.

Article 14(1)The organizer of a registered training session must prepare an inventory of assets, balance sheet, and profit and loss statement or income and expenditure statement, as well as business report (including electromagnetic records (referring to records used in computerized information processing which are created in an electronic form, magnetic form, or any other form that cannot be perceived by the human senses; hereinafter the same applies in this Article) if electronic or magnetic records are kept instead of those paper documents; referred to as "financial statements, etc." in the following paragraph) and must keep them at the office, pursuant to the provisions of Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Order.

(2)Any person who intends to participate in a registered training session and other interested parties may file a request specified below at any time within the service hours of the organizer of the registered training session; provided, however, that the requesting person must pay fees set by the organizer of the registered training session to file a request under item (ii) or item (iv):

Article 15When an organizer of a registered training session is deemed to be no longer organizing a registered training session pursuant to Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Order as referred to in Article 12, paragraph (7) of the Act, the prefectural governor may order the organizer of the registered training session to take necessary measures for organizing registered training sessions pursuant to Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Order as referred to in the same paragraph.

Article 16When an organizer of a registered training session is deemed to be violating the provisions of Article 11, the prefectural governor may order the organizer of the registered training session to conduct the registered session or to take necessary measures to improve the operational methods such as the implementation method of the registered training session.

Article 17When an organizer of a training session falls under any of the following items, the prefectural governor may revoke the registration thereof or order the suspension of the whole or part of operations pertaining to the registered training session for a specified time period:

Article 18The organizer of a registered training session must keep books, in which matters concerning the registered training session specified by Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Order must be recorded and retain these books, pursuant to Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Order.

Article 19A prefectural governor may have the organizers of registered training sessions report the conditions of operations pertaining to the registered training sessions or their accounting conditions, to the extent necessary for the enforcement of the Act and this Cabinet Order.

Article 20(1)A prefectural governor may have the employees enter the sites of operations of the organizers of registered training sessions to inspect the status of operations or the books, documents, and other properties, to the extent necessary for the enforcement of the Act and this Cabinet Order.

(2)The employees conducting on-site inspection pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph must carry their identification cards and present them to the relevant persons.

(3)The authority for on-site inspection under the provisions of paragraph (1) must not be construed as being granted for criminal investigation.

Article 21In any of the following cases, the prefectural governor must issue a public notice to that effect:

Article 22The number specified by Cabinet Order as referred to in Article 16, paragraph (1) of the Act shall be 300,000 for the business year (from April 1 of the year to March 31 of the following year (if a poultry slaughterer (referring to a poultry slaughterer prescribed in Article 6, paragraph (1) of the Act; the same applies hereinafter) intends to obtain certification in January, February, or March, from April 1 of the year preceding that year to March 31 of that year)) during which the date when the poultry slaughterer intends to obtain certification under Article 16, paragraph (1) of the Act falls ; provided that, if the poultry slaughterer obtains the license under Article 3 of the Act during the business year, the number shall be 25,000 multiplied by the number of months from the month in which the date when the license is obtained falls through to March of that business year (if the date when the license is obtained falls in March, the number of months shall be one).

Article 23The number specified by Cabinet Order as referred to in Article 16, paragraph (4) of the Act shall be 300,000 for each business year (from April 1 of the year to March 31 of the following year) after the business year in which a poultry slaughterer obtains certification under paragraph (1) of the same Article falls (from April 1 of the year to March 31 of the following year (if a poultry slaughterer obtains certification in January, February, or March, from April 1 of the year preceding that year to March 31 of that year); hereinafter referred to as "business year of certification" in this Article) ; provided that, if the date on which a certified small-scale poultry slaughterer (referring to a certified small-scale poultry slaughterer prescribed in Article 16, paragraph (2) of the Act) obtains the license under Article 3 of the Act falls in the business year of certification, the number shall be 25,000 multiplied by the number of months from the month in which the date when the license is obtained falls through to March of that business year (if the date when the date when the license is obtained falls in March, the number of months shall be one).

Article 24The cases specified by Cabinet Order as referred to in Article 17, paragraph (1), item (vii) of the Act shall be the cases where a food sanitation inspector removes a part of a poultry carcass, eviscerated poultry carcass, or poultry meat, etc. (referring to poultry carcass, eviscerated poultry carcass, or poultry meat, etc. prescribed in Article 2, items (ii) through (iv) of the Act; the same applies hereinafter) pursuant to the provisions of Article 28, paragraph (1) of the Food Sanitation Act (Act No. 233 of 1947) or the cases where a livestock quarantine officer or a prefectural livestock health inspector collects and carries out a part of a poultry carcass, eviscerated poultry carcass, or poultry meat, etc. pursuant to the provisions of Article 51, paragraph (1) of the Act on the Prevention of Infectious Diseases in Livestock (Act No. 166 of 1951).

Article 25The qualification specified by Cabinet Order as referred to in Article 39 of the Act shall be for the persons who have a license of veterinarian pursuant to the provisions of the Veterinarians Act (Act No. 186 of 1949).