①A qualified consumer organization must appropriately exercise its right to demand cease and desist or seek injunctive relief in the interest of a large, non-exclusive group of consumers.

②A qualified consumer organization must not abuse its right to demand cease and desist or seek injunctive relief.

③A qualified consumer organization, in addition to exercising its right to demand cease and desist or seek injunctive relief jointly with other qualified consumer organizations in accordance with the nature of the cases, must try to cooperate and coordinate with those organizations in providing services related to demanding cease and desist or seeking injunctive relief.

④In the following cases, a qualified consumer organization must notify that fact to other qualified consumer organizations pursuant to the provisions of Cabinet Office Order as well as report the fact, its details and other matters prescribed by Cabinet Office Order to the prime minister without delay. In this case, if the qualified consumer organization in lieu of the notification or report takes measures that enables all of the qualified consumer organizations and the prime minister to access the same information by electronic or magnetic means (meaning through the use of an electronic data processing system or any other application of information and communications technology; the same applies hereinafter) which are prescribed by Cabinet Office Order, the qualified consumer organization is deemed to have made a notification to those organizations and have made a report to the prime minister:

⑤Having received a report under the preceding paragraph, the prime minister is to communicate the date and time of the report, an outline thereof, and any other matters specified by Cabinet Office Order to other qualified consumer organizations and to the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, by taking measures that enable all of the qualified consumer organizations as well as the prime minister and the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry to access the same information by using electronic or magnetic means, or in any other ways prescribed by Cabinet Office Order.

⑥If there is a matter for which compulsory execution may be carried out in the final judgment or equally binding disposition as referenced in the main clause of Article 12-2, paragraph (1), item (ii), a qualified consumer organization may not waive the right to seek injunctive relief pertaining to the final judgment.

In exercising the right to demand cease and desist (including a litigation involving a request to confirm the absence of a right to seek injunctive relief or a related obligation; the same applies in Article 28), a qualified consumer organization must obtain consent from the consumer in advance, in using information that it has collected from a consumer on damage sustained by that consumer, if it will use the information in such a way that the other party or third parties can identify the consumer sustaining the damage.

It is prohibited for the past or present officer, employee, or expert advisor of a qualified consumer organization to disclose confidential information learned while providing services related to demanding cease and desist or seeking injunctive relief, without legitimate grounds for doing so.

A person engaged in providing services related to demanding cease and desist or seeking injunctive relief at a qualified consumer organization must disclose the name of the organization, one's own name and title or position at the organization, and other matters specified by Cabinet Office Order to the other party upon its request, when providing those services.

A qualified consumer organization must try to inform consumers of the provisions of the judgments in the actions for injunction (including anything with the same effect as a final and binding judgment, and also including decisions on petitions for provisional disposition orders) or of extra-judicial settlements, and other necessary information in order to contribute to preventing and remedying consumer damage.

①Except in the following cases, it is prohibited for a qualified consumer organization to receive money or any other financial benefit from the other party of the action seeking injunctive relief, in the form of a contribution or donation or under any other name, in relation to its exercise of the right to demand cease and desist or seek junctive relief:

②It is prohibited for the officer, employee, or expert advisor of a qualified consumer organization to receive money or any other financial benefit from the other party in an action for the right to demand cease and desist or seek injunctive relief filed by the qualified consumer organization, in the form of a contribution or donation or under any other name, related to the organization's exercise of the right to demand cease and desist or seek injunctive relief.

③It is prohibited for a qualified consumer organization or its officer, employees, or expert advisor to have a third party receive money or any other financial benefit from the other party in an action seeking injunctive relief filed by the qualified consumer organization, in the form of a contribution or donation or under any other name, related to the organization's exercise of the right to demand cease and desist or seek injunctive relief.

④A financial benefit that a qualified consumer organization is prohibited from receiving or from having a third party receive from the other party of the action seeking injunctive relief as provided for in the preceding three paragraphs does not include a financial benefit that the organization has received or had a third party receive as compensation for damage caused by a tortious act committed by the other party with respect to the exercise of the right to seek injunctive relief.

⑤If a qualified consumer organization receives a financial benefit as provided for in one of the items of paragraph (1), it must set aside an equivalent amount of money to cover the costs required for the services related to the right to seek injunctive relief.

⑥A qualified consumer organization must establish in its articles of incorporation that if it discontinues its services related to the right to demand cease and desist or seek injunctive relief or stops providing those services due to the expiration (excluding those due to discontinuation of services related to the right to demand cease and desist or seek injunctive relief) or revocation of the certification referenced in Article 13, paragraph (1) while a surplus to the reserve fund (meaning an amount set aside pursuant to the preceding paragraph) remains, that the surplus is to belong to another qualified consumer organization (if a qualified consumer organization has succeeded to the right to demand cease and desist or seek injunctive relief pursuant to Article 35, that qualified consumer organization) if there is one, and if not, the surplus is to belong to a consumer organization that conforms to the requirements set forth in Article 13, paragraph (3), item (ii) and specified by the prime minister or is to be vested in the State.

①A qualified consumer organization may engage in services other than services related to the right to demand cease and desist or seek injunctive relief as provided by the articles of incorporation, to the extent that it does not adversely affect services related to the right to demand cease and desist or seek injunctive relief.

②A qualified consumer organization must separate the accounting for each of the services set forth below:

A qualified consumer organization must prepare and retain books and documents related to its services and accounting pursuant to the provisions of Cabinet Office Order.