①If a qualified consumer organization's officer, employee, or expert advisor receives or has a third party (including the qualified consumer organization) receive money or any other financial benefit, in the form of a contribution or donation or under any other name, from a person against which a demand for injunction has been filed by the qualified consumer organization in consideration of not exercising or not having exercised the right to demand an injunction, of waiving or having waived the right to demand an injunction, of entering or having entered into a settlement with the other party in connection with a demand for injunction, or of terminating or having terminated the lawsuit or other proceedings involving a demand for injunction on other grounds, that officer, employee, or expert advisor is subject to imprisonment for not more than 3 years or to a fine of not more than three million yen.

②The preceding paragraph also applies to a person providing the benefit referred to in that paragraph.

③In the case as referred to in paragraph (1), the financial benefit received by the offender or by a third party with knowledge of the circumstances is confiscated. If all or part of the financial benefit may not be confiscated, an equivalent value is collected.

④Provisions on the crimes referred to in paragraph (1) also apply to a person committing a crime as referred to in that paragraph outside Japan.

⑤The crime referred to in paragraph (2) is governed by Article 2 of the Penal Code (Act No. 45 of 1907).

①If the certification under Article 13, paragraph (1), the renewal of the validity period under Article 17, paragraph (2), or the authorization under Article 19, paragraph (3) or Article 20, paragraph (3) is obtained through deception or other wrongful means, the person who committed the violation is subject to a fine of not more than one million yen.

②A person that has disclosed confidential information obtained during the course of providing services related to the right to demand an injunction, in violation of Article 25 is subject to a fine of not more than one million yen.

In any of the following cases, a person who has committed said violation is subject to a fine of not more than five hundred thousand yen:

①If the representative or administrator of a corporation (including an organization that is not a corporation but for which a representative or administrator has been established; hereinafter the same applies in this paragraph), or an agent, a worker, or other employee of a corporation or an individual violates an act prescribed in Article 49, paragraph (1) of Article 50, or the preceding Article in connection with the services of the corporation or individual, in addition to the violator being punished, the corporation or individual is subject to the fine prescribed in the relevant Article.

②If the preceding paragraph is applied to an organization that is not a corporation, its representative or administrator is to represent the organization that is not a corporation with respect to procedural acts, and the provisions of laws governing criminal proceedings that have a corporation as the defendant or the accused apply mutatis mutandis.

A person falling under any of the following items is subject to a civil fine of no more than three hundred thousand yen: