Article 1.　Any person, who produces rice and/or barley, or who, having a title to the land, receives rice and/or barley as tenant fee shall undergo the inspection conducted by the Food Office of the kind, brand, quality, volume, and packing of rice and/or barley which he produced or received as tenant fee and which shall be sold to the Government in accordance with the provisions provided in paragraph 1 of Article 3 of the Food Administration Law, except rice and/or barley which have undergone the inspection as provided in paragraph 1 of Article 2 of this Ordinance or which may be designated by the Minister of Agriculture and Forestry.

Article 2.　In case where a person as provided in the preceding Article wishes to transfer rice and/or barley except rice and/or barley which shall be subject to the inspection as provided in the preceding paragraph, he shall undergo the inspection conducted by the Food Office of the kind, brand, quality, volume, and packing thereof in accordance with the instruction of the Minister of Agriculture and Forestry. This shall also apply to a case where an agricultural association of a city, town, or village, farm warehouseman, or any other person whom the Minister of Agriculture and Forestry may designate, wishes to transfer rice and/or barley which such association or person has a title to or possesses.

Article 3.　In case where a person, who produces, or makes it his business to process or manufacture sweet potato, Irish potato, and/or other staple food as may be designated by the Minister of Agriculture and Forestry (hereinafter called designated food), wishes to transfer sweet potato, Irish potato, and/or designated food which he produced, or processed or manufactured, he shall undergo the inspection conducted by the Food Office of the kind, brand, quality, volume, and packing thereof in accordance with the instruction of the Minister of Agriculture and Forestry. This shall also apply to a case where an agricultural association of a city, town, or village, farm warehouseman, or any other person whom the Minister of Agriculture and Forestry may designate, wishes to transfer sweet potato, Irish potato, and/or designated food which such association or person has a title to or possesses.

Article 4.　A person who cultivates Irish potato with the view of transfering the same as seed, shall, in addition to the inspection in accordance with the provisions of paragraph 1 of the preceding Article, undergo the inspection conducted by the Food Office of the kind thereof, and the disposition, growing condition, and damage done by diseases and/or insects thereof in the growing area in accordance with the instructions of the Minister of Agriculture and Forestry, except, however, a case as may be designated by the Minister of Agriculture and Forestry.

Article 5.　Chief of Food Office shall place a seal, mark, or certification label which is duly established by the Minister of Agriculture and Forestry, on rice, barley, sweet potato, Irish potato, and/or designated food which underwent the inspection as provided in Article 1, or in the provisions of paragraph 1 of Article 2 or paragraph 1 of Article 3.

Article 6.　Rice, barley, sweet potato, Irish potato, and/or designated food whose seal, mark, and/or certification label, placed in accordance with the provisions of paragraph 1 of the preceding Article, has been destroyed, erased, or removed, shall be inspected again in accordance with the provisions of Article 1, paragraph 1 of Article 2, or paragraph 1 of Article 3.

Article 7.　In addition to the matters as prescribed in this Imperial Ordinance, those matters necessary for the inspection of rice, barley, sweet potato, Irish potato, and designated food shall be determined by the Minister of Agriculture and Forestry.