Article 27-14Public Inspection of a Tender Offer Statement

①The Prime Minister must make a tender offer statement (including any amended statement in connection with it; the same applies in paragraph (1) of the following Article), written tender offer withdrawal notice, tender offer report, target company's position statement, and tender offeror's answer (including any amended report in connection with them; the same applies in paragraph (1) of the following Article) available for public inspection, pursuant to the provisions of Cabinet Office Order, during the period from the day that the Prime Minister accepts them to the day on which five years have elapsed since the day following the last day of the tender offer period in the relevant tender offer.

②Pursuant to the provisions of Cabinet Office Order, a person that has submitted a document prescribed in the preceding paragraph (hereinafter referred to as a " document for public inspection" in this Article) (such a person is hereinafter referred to as the "submitter" in this Article) must keep a copy of that document for public inspection at its head office or principal office and make it available for public inspection during the period that the Prime Minister makes that public document available for public inspection pursuant to the preceding paragraph.

③Pursuant to the provisions of Cabinet Office Order, financial instruments exchanges and the authorized financial instruments firms associations specified by Cabinet Order must keep copies of the documents for public inspection that have been sent pursuant to Article 27-3, paragraph (4) (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 27-8, paragraph (6), Article 27-11, paragraph (4) and paragraph (3) of the preceding Article), Article 27-10, paragraph (9) (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 27-10, paragraph (10)), and Article 27-10, paragraph (13) (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 27-10, paragraph (14)) at their offices and make them available for public inspection during the period that the Prime Minister makes those documents available for public inspection pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1).

④Beyond what is provided for in the preceding three paragraphs, the necessary matters relevant to the public inspection referred to in paragraph (1) are specified by Cabinet Office Order.

⑤Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (1), if the Prime Minister issues any of the following dispositions, the Prime Minister may decide not to make all or part of the documents for public inspection that are connected with the disposition available for public inspection:

⑥In a case referred to in the preceding paragraph, the Prime Minister is to notify the submitter that makes the copies of the documents for public inspection available for public inspection pursuant to paragraph (2), as well as the financial instruments exchanges or the authorized financial instruments firms associations specified by Cabinet Order which are referred to in paragraph (3), which make copies of the documents for public inspection available for public inspection pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (3), that the Prime Minister has decided that all or part of the documents for public inspection will not be made available for public inspection.

⑦If a submitter or a financial instruments exchange or authorized financial instruments firms association has been notified by the Prime Minister pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the provisions of paragraphs (2) and (3) do not apply after that time to the copies of the documents for public inspection to which the notice concerns.