①Except in the case specified by Cabinet Office Order, if a particular set forth in any of the items of Article 52-61-3, paragraph (1) changes, an electronic payment service provider must file a notification to that effect with the Prime Minister pursuant to the provisions of Cabinet Office Order, within 30 days from the day on which the change occurred.

②Upon accepting a notification under the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the Prime Minister must register the particular that has been notified in the electronic payment service providers register.

③If the business content or business methods that an electronic payment service provider has stated in the documents set forth in Article 52-61-3, paragraph (2), item (iii) change, the electronic payment service provider must notify the Prime Minister of this change without delay, pursuant to the provisions of Cabinet Office Order.

①If an electronic payment service provider comes to fall under any of the cases referred to in the following items, the person specified in that item must file a notification to that effect with the Prime Minister, within 30 days from the day on which this occurred:

②If an electronic payment service provider comes to fall under any of the items of the preceding paragraph, the registration of the electronic payment service provider ceases to be effective.

①When performing an action set forth in any of the items of Article 2, paragraph (21) (excluding the actions specified by Cabinet Office Order that are prescribed in that paragraph), an electronic payment service provider must explain the following particulars to users in advance, pursuant to the provisions of Cabinet Office Order, except in cases specified by Cabinet Office Order:

②Pursuant to the provisions of Cabinet Office Order, an electronic payment service provider must take the measures of providing users with information to prevent them from mistaking electronic payment services for the services conducted by banks, for ensuring the proper handling and safe control of the information on users that the electronic payment service provider has acquired in connection with the electronic payment services, for ensuring the precise execution of electronic payment services when the electronic payment service provider entrusts the services to a third party, and other measures for ensuring the sound and appropriate management of electronic payment services.

①Before performing an action set forth in any of the items of Article 2, paragraph (21) (excluding the actions specified by Cabinet Office Order that are prescribed in that Article), an electronic payment service provider must conclude a contract for electronic payment services with the bank referred to in each of those items, and conduct electronic payment services related to that bank in accordance with the contract.

②The following particulars must be provided for in the contract referred to in the preceding paragraph:

③When a bank and an electronic payment service provider conclude a contract referred to in paragraph (1), they must publicize the particulars set forth in the items of the preceding paragraph in the content of the contract using the internet or by any other means without delay, pursuant to the provisions of Cabinet Office Order.

①A bank must establish standards for particulars required of an electronic payment service provider in concluding a contract referred to in paragraph (1) of the preceding Article, and must publicize the standards using the internet or by any other means, pursuant to the provisions of Cabinet Office Order.

②The particulars required of an electronic payment service provider that are referred to in the preceding paragraph are to include the measures that should be taken by the electronic payment service provider that is the counterparty to the contract referred to in paragraph (1) of the preceding Article for ensuring the proper handling and safe control of the information on users that the electronic payment service provider acquires in relation to electronic payment services, and other particulars specified by Cabinet Office Order.

③When concluding a contract referred to in paragraph (1) of the preceding Article, a bank must not treat an electronic payment service provider that meets the standards referred to in paragraph (1) in an unreasonably discriminatory manner.

An electronic payment service provider must prepare and preserve books and documents concerning electronic payment services, pursuant to the provisions of Cabinet Office Order.

Each business year, an electronic payment service provider must prepare a written report on its electronic payment services and submit it to the Prime Minister, pursuant to the provisions of Cabinet Office Order.

①If the Prime Minister finds it to be necessary for ensuring the sound and appropriate management of electronic payment services by an electronic payment service provider, the Prime Minister may ask the electronic payment service provider to make a report or submit materials on the status of their business or property.

②If the Prime Minister finds it to be particularly necessary for ensuring the sound and appropriate management of electronic payment services by an electronic payment service provider, the Prime Minister may, to the extent necessary, request a person that conducts transactions with the electronic payment service provider related to its electronic payment services or a person that the electronic payment service provider has entrusted with its electronic payment services (including a person further entrusted by that entrusted person (including entrustment at two or more degrees of separation from the original entrustment); the same applies in the following paragraph and paragraphs (2) and (5) of the following Article) to make a report or submit materials on the status of business or property of the electronic payment service provider.

③A person conducting transactions with an electronic payment service provider related to its electronic payment services or a person that an electronic payment service provider has entrusted with its electronic payment services may refuse to make a report or submit materials pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph if the person has legitimate grounds for doing so.

①If the Prime Minister finds it to be necessary for ensuring the sound and appropriate management of electronic payment services by an electronic payment service provider, the Prime Minister may have relevant officials enter the business office, office, or any other facilities of the electronic payment service provider, have those officials ask questions about the status of their business or property, or have them inspect the service provider's books, documents, and any other articles.

②If an entry into facilities is to be made, and questioning or inspection is to be conducted, pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, when the Prime Minister finds it to be particularly necessary, the Prime Minister may, to the extent necessary, have relevant officials enter the facilities of a person conducting transactions with the electronic payment service provider that are related to electronic payment services or of a person that the electronic payment service provider has entrusted with its electronic payment services, have those officials ask questions about any particulars that are required to be asked in relation to the questioning or inspection of the electronic payment service provider, or have them inspect their books, documents, and any other articles.

③In the cases referred to in the preceding two paragraphs, the relevant official must carry an identification card, and must present it if a person concerned requests them to do so.

④The authority under paragraphs (1) and (2) must not be construed as being granted for criminal investigation purposes.

⑤The provisions of paragraph (3) of the preceding Article apply mutatis mutandis to the questioning and inspection of the person conducting transactions with an electronic payment service provider that are connected with its electronic payment services or of the person that the electronic payment service provider has entrusted with electronic payment services, pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (2).

If the Prime Minister finds it to be necessary for ensuring the sound and appropriate management of electronic payment services by an electronic payment service provider, the Prime Minister may order the electronic payment service provider to change their business content and business methods and order other measures that are necessary for supervision, to the extent necessary.