| (1) | Any design businessman or any supervision businessman shall, when he falls under any of the following subparagraph, make a report to the Mayor/Do governor under the conditions as prescribed by the Ministerial Decree of Commerce, Industry and Energy: |
| 1. | Where he intends to transfer or obtain by transfer the design business or the supervision business; and |
| 2. | When he intends to effect a merger between the corporations that are design businessmen or supervision businessmen. |
| (2) | When a report is made with respect to a transfer or an acquisition by transfer of the design business or the supervision business, or a merger between corporations under paragraph (1), the transferee of the design business or the supervision business, or the corporation incorporated or surviving by the merger shall succeed to the status of the transferor, or the design businessman or the supervision businessman of the corporation extinguished by the merger. |
| (3) | The provisions of Article 15 shall apply mutatis mutandis to the successor referred to in paragraph (2). |
[This Article Added by Act No. 6673, Mar. 25, 2002]