①A specified business operator (excluding a specified business operator prescribed in the following paragraph) must, in the case where it has conducted a transaction pertaining to specified business, except for a transaction of a small amount or other transaction specified by Cabinet Order, immediately prepare, by the method specified by order of the competent ministry, a record of the matters for searching the verification record of the customer, etc., the date and content of that transaction, and other matters specified by order of the competent ministry.

②A specified business operator listed in Article 2, paragraph (2), items (xlvi) through (xlix) must, in the case where it has carried out agency, etc. for specified mandated acts (meaning the agency, etc. for specified mandated acts prescribed in the middle column of the row for the persons listed in Article 2, paragraph (2), item (xlvi) in the Appended Table; the same applies hereinafter in this Article and in paragraph (2) of the following Article), except for agency, etc. for specified mandated acts specified by Cabinet Order, such as agency for the disposition of property of small value, immediately prepare, by the method specified by order of the competent ministry, a record of the matters for searching the verification record of the customer, etc., the date and content of that agency, etc. for specified mandated acts, and other matters specified by order of the competent ministry.