Article 53-2. (Manufacturing Inspection, etc. by Director of Prefectural Labor Bureau)
• (1) The Director of Prefectural Labor Bureau may conduct all or a part of manufacturing inspection, etc. services, in the following cases:
o - when there is no agency registered
o - when there was a notification to suspend or discontinue a part of or the whole service pursuant to Article 49
o - when there was revocation of registration or an order to suspend the whole or a part of the service of manufacturing inspection, etc., based on the previous Article
o - when it became difficult for the registered manufacturing inspection, etc., agency to carry out the whole or a part of the service of inspection by the natural disaster or other causes.
o - when it is deemed to be necessary
• (2) Transfer of the inspection and other necessary matters, in the case of the Director of the Prefectural Labor Bureau carrying out the whole or a part of manufacturing inspection, etc. services, pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, shall be provided for by the Ordinance of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare.
Article 53-3. (Registered Regular Inspection Agency)
• The provisions of Article 46 and Article 46-2 shall apply mutatis mutandis to the registration in paragraph (2) of Article 41. The provisions of Article 47 through the preceding Article shall apply mutatis mutandis to registered agencies for regular inspection. In this case, the expression shown in the middle column of the table below that are used in the provisions listed in the corresponding left column shall read as the expression listed in the corresponding right column.