{"topic_id":"jp_animal_welfare_act_full_business_registration","category":"jp-animal-welfare","context":"---\ntopic_id: jp_animal_welfare_act_full_business_registration\ncategory: jp-animal-welfare\ntitle: \"Japan Animal Welfare Act — Type-1 Animal Handling Business Registration (第十条)\"\nlang: en\nsource: \"Act on Welfare and Management of Animals, lawid 348AC1000000105, laws.e-gov.go.jp full text, pulled 2026-07-24 via Seoul relay Playwright\"\nsource_file: pdf-raw/jp-animal-welfare/animal_welfare_act_full.txt\nsource_type: statute_text\ndate_parsed: 2026-07-24\ntokens_estimated: 145\nverification: C1_substring_match\nclaims: 1\nsource_document: \"Japan 動物の愛護及び管理に関する法律 (Animal Welfare Act)\"\ncitation:\n  authority: \"動物愛護管理法の概要\"\n  title: \"Japan Animal Welfare Act — Type-1 Animal Handling Business Registration (第十条)\"\n  url: \"https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/document?lawid=348AC1000000105\"\n  retrieved: \"2026-07-24\"\n  ref: \"\"\n  doc_type: \"official PDF\"\n  needs_review: false\nauthority_tier: T1\nauthority_tier_basis: \"T1:jp-kr-gov\"\nauthority_tier_date: 2026-08-04\n---\n\n# Japan Animal Welfare Act — Type-1 Animal Handling Business Registration (第十条)\n\nFirst-hand full-statute text from the Act on Welfare and Management of Animals (動物の愛護及び管理に関する法律, lawid 348AC1000000105), retrieved as full text from laws.e-gov.go.jp on 2026-07-24 via the Seoul relay (Playwright). Each statement below is English-led; the original Japanese clause is quoted verbatim and substring-matched against `source_file` for C1 verification.\n\n## Article 10 (第十条) — Type-1 Animal Handling Business Registration (第一種動物取扱業)\n\nA person who intends to operate a Type-1 animal handling business (第一種動物取扱業) must obtain registration from the governor of the prefecture that has jurisdiction over the location of the business office. The Type-1 business is defined as conducting as a business the handling — sale (including brokerage or agency), boarding, lending, training, exhibition (including provision of opportunities to interact with animals), and other handling prescribed by Cabinet Order — of animals (mammals, birds, or reptiles kept for companionship, excluding those kept for livestock agriculture and those kept for testing/research or for manufacturing biological preparations and other purposes prescribed by Cabinet Order).\n\n> Original (第十条): 「動物（哺乳類、鳥類又は爬は虫類に属するものに限り、畜産農業に係るもの及び試験研究用又は生物学的製剤の製造の用その他政令で定める用途に供するために飼養し、又は保管しているものを除く。以下この節から第四節までにおいて同じ。）の取扱業（動物の販売（その取次ぎ又は代理を含む。次項及び第二十一条の四において同じ。）、保管、貸出し、訓練、展示（動物との触れ合いの機会の提供を含む。第二十二条の五を除き、以下同じ。）その他政令で定める取扱いを業として行うことをいう。以下この節、第三十七条の二第二項第一号及び第四十六条第一号において「第一種動物取扱業」という。）を営もうとする者は、当該業を営もうとする事業所の所在地を管轄する都道府県知事（地方自治法（昭和二十二年法律第六十七号）第二百五十二条の十九第一項の指定都市（以下「指定都市」という。）にあつては、その長とする。以下この節から第五節まで（第二十五条第七項を除く。）において同じ。）の登録を受けなければならない。」\n\nSource: `pdf-raw/jp-animal-welfare/animal_welfare_act_full.txt` — full text of the Act (laws.e-gov.go.jp), pulled 2026-07-24 via Seoul relay Playwright.\n","sources":["動物愛護管理法の概要 — Japan Animal Welfare Act — Type-1 Animal Handling Business Registration (第十条) (retrieved 2026-07-24)"],"source":{"authority":"動物愛護管理法の概要","title":"Japan Animal Welfare Act — Type-1 Animal Handling Business Registration (第十条)","url":"https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/document?lawid=348AC1000000105","retrieved":"2026-07-24","ref":"","doc_type":"official PDF","source_document":"Japan 動物の愛護及び管理に関する法律 (Animal Welfare Act)","verification_file":"pdf-raw/jp-animal-welfare/animal_welfare_act_full.txt"},"source_document":"Japan 動物の愛護及び管理に関する法律 (Animal Welfare Act)","source_file":"pdf-raw/jp-animal-welfare/animal_welfare_act_full.txt","trust":{"authority_tier":"T1","fidelity":"verbatim","license":null,"display_grade":"A"},"tokens_estimated":145,"generated_at":null,"tip":"Use /api/v1/topics to discover more topics. /api/v1/nutrient for precise single-point queries. /api/v1/cross_compare for 2-3 standard comparisons."}