Article 16-2Restrictions on Making and Receiving Payments

If the competent minister has made it obligatory to obtain permission pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) of the preceding Article and finds that a person that has made or received a payment for which it has been made obligatory to obtain permission, without obtaining that permission, is likely to again make or receive a payment for which it has been made obligatory to obtain permission pursuant to the provisions of that paragraph, without obtaining that permission, the competent minister may, for a period of up to one year, prohibit that person, in whole or in part, from making payments from Japan to a foreign country (excluding a payment made through a funds transfer transaction where a bank (meaning a bank as prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (1) of the Banking Act (Act No. 59 of 1981); the same applies in Article 21, paragraph (3)) or any other financial institution prescribed by Cabinet Order (hereinafter referred to as a "bank or other prescribed financial institution") or a funds transfer service provider (meaning a funds transfer service provider as prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (3) of the Payment Services Act, and including a person deemed to be a funds transfer service provider under Article 37-2, paragraph (2) of that Act; the same applies hereinafter) conducts the funds transfer transaction involving a payment by its customer, and a payment made through a transfer of electronic payment instruments or any other prescribed action (meaning the action stated in the right column of the following table in accordance with the category of persons stated in the left column of that table; the same applies hereinafter) where an electronic payment instruments service provider, etc. (meaning the persons stated in the left column of the following table; the same applies hereinafter) conducts the transfer of electronic payment instruments or any other prescribed action involving a payment by its customer) and from making or receiving payments between a resident and a non-resident (excluding a payment made or received through a funds transfer transaction where a bank or other prescribed financial institution or a funds transfer service provider conducts the funds transfer transaction involving the making or receiving of a payment by its customer, a payment made or received through a transfer of electronic payment instruments or any other prescribed action where an electronic payment instruments service provider, etc. conducts the transfer of electronic payment instruments or any other prescribed action involving the making or receiving of a payment by its customer, and any other payment prescribed by Cabinet Order), or make it obligatory, pursuant to the provisions of Cabinet Order, for that person to obtain permission for those payments.