Working Environment Measurement Law

Section 4. Designated Registration Institution

Article 32-2.  The Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare may have those who are designated based on their applications undertake the registration (hereinafter referred to as "registration business" in this article, Article 45 and Article 55) provided for in Article 7 (not including the services relating to the cancellation of the registration and issuance of the order conforming to the provisions of Article 12).

2.  The Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare shall not execute registration businesss which have already been commissioned to those who have been designated according the provision of the preceding paragraph (hereinafter referred to as "designated registration institution."

3.  For the application of the provisions of paragraph 1 of Article 8 and paragraph 1 of Article 9 to be applied to the registration business to be undertaken by the designated registration institution, "the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare" in paragraph 1 of Article 8 and "Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare" in paragraph 1 of Article 9 shall both be read as "the designated registration institution provided in paragraph 2 of Article 32-2." 

4.  The provisions of Section 2 (excluding those of Article 20 and Article 24 concerning the examination committee on the examination for the registered working environment measure) shall be applied with necessary modifications to the designated registration institution, providing that the part expressed as "service for examination" in item 1, paragraph 1 of Article 21 shall be read as "the service concerning the execution of the registration (hereinafter referred to as "registration business") conforming to Article 7, excluding the services concerning the cancellation of the registration and the issue of the order conforming to the provision of Article 12"; "concerning the service for examination" as "concerning the service for registration"; "appropriateness of the service for examination" as "appropriateness of registration business"; "service for examination" in item 2, paragraph 1 and item 3, paragraph 2 of the said article, paragraphs 1 and 2 of Article 22, paragraph 2 of Article 23, paragraphs 1 and 2 of Article 25, Article 27, Article 28, paragraph 1 of Article 29. Article 30 and Article 31 as "registration business"; "examination service procedure" in paragraph 2 of Article 23, Article 25 and item 5, paragraph 1 of Article 30 as "registration business procedure"; "personnel (including member of examination committee)" in Article 27 as "personnel"; "this section" in item 2, paragraph 1 of Article 30 as "this section (not including Articles 20 and 24)"; and "paragraph 2 of Article 23 and paragraph 4 of Article 24" in item 4 of the said paragraph as "paragraph 2 of Article 23."