Article 8 (Registration of Manufacturing Business) (1) Any person who intends to operate manufacturing business shall file for registration of business with the Special Metropolitan City Mayor, a Metropolitan City Mayor, a Special Self-Governing City Mayor, a Do Governor or a Special Self-Governing Province Governor (hereinafter referred to as "Mayor/Do Governor"), as prescribed by Ministerial Decree of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs: Provided, That registration may not be filed, where a person engaged in agricultural activities, grain processing or food manufacturing produces, sells, or supplies feed in an amount not exceeding that prescribed by Ministerial Decree of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs, using the by-products prescribed by Ministerial Decree of
Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs, which are generated in the course of such activities, processing or manufacturing (limited to by-products that constitute single-compound feed or supplementary feed). <Amended on Mar. 23, 2013; May 29, 2016>
(2) Any person who intends to file for registration of manufacturing business in accordance with the main clause of paragraph (1) shall have manufacturing facilities meeting the standards prescribed by Ministerial Decree of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs: Provided, That the same shall not apply where a manufacturer of animal drugs under Articles 31 and 85 of the Pharmaceutical Affairs Act, a manufacturer of food or food additives under Article 36 of the Food Sanitation Act, or a manufacturer of health functional food under Article 4 of the Health Functional Foods Act intends to file for registration of manufacturing business in order to produce and sell or supply feed with some of products the manufacturer has directly manufactured. <Amended on Feb. 6, 2009; Mar. 23, 2013; May 29, 2016> (3) Where a person who has registered his or her manufacturing business in accordance with the main clause of paragraph (1) with manufacturing facilities under the main clause of paragraph (2) intends to change any of the manufacturing facilities prescribed by Ministerial Decree of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs, the person shall report such change to the competent Mayor/Do Governor. <Amended on Mar. 23, 2013; May 29, 2016>
(4) A Mayor/Do Governor upon receipt of a report prescribed in paragraph (3) shall notify the reporting person of acceptance or non-acceptance of the report not later than ten days after the date of receipt of the report. <Added on Dec. 31, 2018> (5) Where a Mayor/Do Governor fails to notify a reporting person of acceptance or non-acceptance of a report or of the extension of the handling period prescribed by the statutes pertaining to civil petitions within the period prescribed in paragraph (4), he or she shall be considered to accept the report on the date following the date on which the period (in cases where the period of handling civil petitions is extended or re-extended pursuant to statutes pertaining to civil petitions, referring to the relevant period of handling) ends. <Added on Dec. 31, 2018> (6) Where a person who has registered his or her manufacturing business in accordance with the main clause of paragraph (1) intends to suspend or close down the business or resume the business after suspension, the person shall report it to the competent Mayor/Do Governor as prescribed by Ministerial Decree of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs. <Amended on Mar. 23, 2013; May 29, 2016; Dec. 31, 2018> (7) Where a manufacturer (limited to those who have completed the registration under paragraph (1)) reports business closure to the head of the competent tax office pursuant to Article 8 of the Value-Added Tax Act or where the head of the competent tax office cancels the business registration, a Mayor/Do Governor may cancel the registration ex officio. In such cases, the Mayor/Do Governor may request the head of the competent tax office to provide information on the fact that the manufacturer has closed his or her business, and upon receipt of such request, the head of the competent tax office shall provide the relevant information unless there is a compelling reason not to do so. <Added on Dec. 27, 2022>