Article 47-2. (Notification of Alteration)
• The registered manufacturing inspection, etc., agency which is to alter matters mentioned in item (ii) or (iii) of paragraph (4) of Article 46 shall notify the alteration to the Minister of Health, Labor and Welfare no later than two weeks prior to the date of the alteration.
Article 48. (Service Rules)/h5>
• (1) The registered manufacturing inspection, etc., agency shall lay down rules concerning the service of manufacturing inspection, etc., (hereinafter referred to as “service rules”), and notify the service rules to the Minister of Health, Labor and Welfare before the day of the commencement of the inspection service. The same shall apply when it intends to alter them.
• (2) The service rules shall specify the implementation method of the inspection, the charge of the inspection, and matters prescribed in the Ordinance of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare.
Article 49. (Suspension or Discontinuance of Service)
• When a registered manufacturing inspection, etc., agency is to suspend or discontinue a part of or the whole service, it shall notify the fact to the Minister of Health, Labor and Welfare in advance.
Article 50. (Provision of Financial Statements and Access to Them)
• (1) The registered manufacturing inspection, etc., agency shall, within three months after the end of each business year, prepare a list of properties, a balance sheet and a profit-and-loss statement or a settlement of accounts statement, and a business report (referred to as “financial statements, etc.” in the following paragraph and in Article 123), concerning that business year, and shall keep them for five years in its office. These include those electromagnetically recorded (the data that are recorded electronically, magnetically or by other method that cannot be recognize by human sense, and that are used for processing by using a computer. This definition applies hereinafter in this Article).
• (2) Any person who intends to undergo an manufacturing inspection, etc. and other interested person may request items listed as follows anytime in the office hours of the registered manufacturing inspection, etc., agency. However, for the request of item (ii) and (iv), one shall pay expenses set by the said agency.
o (i) request for browse and photocopying of the financial statements, etc., in the case that they are provided in the form of paper.
o (ii) request for the transcript or extract of documents mentioned in the previous item.