Act on Price Adjustment of Sugar and Starch（Act No. 109 of 1965）.

The purpose of this Act is to ensure a stable supply of domestic sugar and domestic potato starch, thereby contributing to the stability of the lives of the citizenry through securing agricultural income pertaining to sweetener resource crops and potatoes for starch, stabilizing the business operation of production of domestic sugar and domestic potato starch, and soundly developing other related industries by providing measures for price adjustment of imported sugar and starch, measures on price adjustment of high-fructose corn syrup and imported sweetened preparation products in relation to sugar, and measures to grant subsidies for sweetener resource crops and domestic sugar, and for potatoes for starch and domestic potato starch.
The Act consists of 5 Chapters: General Provisions; Measures Concerning Price Adjustment of Suga; Measures Concerning Price Adjustment of Starch; Miscellaneous Provisions; Penalties.
Articles 3 through 10 deals with measures concerning price adjustment of imported sugar. Articles 26 through 32) provide for measures concerning price adjustment of imported starch. Articles 33 through 36 deal with granting of the subsidy for potatoes for starch and the subsidy for domestic potato starch.