• (3) The Minister of Health, Labor and Welfare shall make public the guidelines for self inspection necessary to ensure the appropriate and effective implementation of voluntary inspection under the provisions of paragraph (1).
• (4) After the guidelines have been made public for self inspection set forth in the preceding paragraph, the Minister of Health, Labor and Welfare may, when he/she finds it necessary, give necessary guidance, etc., on the said guidelines to employers, registered inspection agencies or their organizations.
Article 46. (Registration for Registered Manufacturing Inspection, etc., Agency)
• (1) The registration set forth in the provision of paragraph (1) of Article 38 (hereinafter in this Article, Article 53 and paragraph 1 of Article 53-2 ,
referred to as “registration”) shall be made, as provided for by the Ordinance of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare and for each classification presctibed by the Ordinance of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, on the application of a person who intends to conduct the manufacturing inspection, etc.
• (2) A person who falls under any of the following items shall not be registered:
o (i) A person who, having violated the provisions of this Act or ordinances thereunder, was sentenced to the penalty of a fine or heavier and for whom two years have not elapsed since the date when the execution of the sentence was completed or the date when he/she ceased be amenable to the execution of the sentence
o (ii) A person whose registration was cancelled pursuant to the provision of Article 53 and for whom two years have not elapsed since the date of cancellation
o (iii) A juridical person one of whose executive officials falls under preceding two items.