If a person falls under any of the following items, the person that has committed the violation is subject to imprisonment for not more than six months or a fine of not more than 500,000 yen:
次の各号のいずれかに該当するときは、その違反行為をした者は、六月以下の拘禁刑又は五十万円以下の罰金に処する。
If a person has imported or exported a means of payment prescribed in Article 19, paragraph (1), securities, or precious metals while failing to make a notification under paragraph (3) of that Article or making a false notification;
If a person has failed to make a report under Article 55, paragraph (1) or made a false report;
第五十五条第一項の規定による報告をせず、又は虚偽の報告をしたとき。
If a person has failed to make a report under Article 55-3, paragraph (1) or (2) or made a false report;
第五十五条の三第一項又は第二項の規定による報告をせず、又は虚偽の報告をしたとき。
If a person has failed to prepare books and documents under Article 55-3, paragraph (5), failed to enter the matters prescribed in that paragraph in them, made false entries in them, or failed to preserve them;
第五十五条の三第五項の規定による帳簿書類を作成せず、これに同項に規定する事項を記載せず、若しくは虚偽の記載をし、又はこれを保存しなかつたとき。
If a person has failed to make a report under Article 55-4 or made a false report;
第五十五条の四の規定による報告をせず、又は虚偽の報告をしたとき。
If a person has failed to make a report under Article 55-5, paragraph (1) (including the cases where these provisions are applied by deeming pursuant to paragraph (2) or (3) of the same Article), or made a false report;
第五十五条の五第一項(同条第二項又は第三項の規定によりみなして適用する場合を含む。)の規定による報告をせず、又は虚偽の報告をしたとき。
If a person has failed to make a report under Article 55-6, paragraph (1) or made a false report;
第五十五条の六第一項の規定による報告をせず、又は虚偽の報告をしたとき。
If a person has failed to make a report or made a false report in violation of the provisions of an Order that is based on Article 55-7;
第五十五条の七の規定に基づく命令の規定に違反して、報告をせず、又は虚偽の報告をしたとき。
If a person has failed to make a report or made a false report in violation of the provisions of an Order that is based on Article 55-8;
第五十五条の八の規定に基づく命令の規定に違反して、報告をせず、又は虚偽の報告をしたとき。
If a person has violated an order under Article 55-9-4, paragraph (2);
第五十五条の九の四第二項の規定による命令に違反したとき。
If a person has violated an order under Article 55-12, paragraph (2);
第五十五条の十二第二項の規定による命令に違反したとき。
If a person has refused, obstructed, or evaded the inspection under Article 68, paragraph (1); or
第六十八条第一項の規定による検査を拒み、妨げ、又は忌避したとき。
If a person has failed to answer questions under Article 68, paragraph (1), or given false answers.
第六十八条第一項の規定による質問に対して答弁をせず、又は虚偽の答弁をしたとき。
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means of payment
「支払手段」
Banknotes, government notes and coins; cheques (including traveller's cheques), bills of exchange, postal money orders and letters of credit; property value recorded electronically on a voucher, device or other object that can be used to pay unspecified or many persons and that a Cabinet Order (政令) specifies as used much as currency is; and other things a Cabinet Order treats as equivalent to the first two groups.
Defined inArticle 6, paragraph (1), item (vii)
precious metal
「貴金属」
Gold bullion, bullion of gold alloys, gold coins not in circulation, and other things made mainly of gold.
Defined inArticle 6, paragraph (1), item (x)
security
「証券」
Public bonds, corporate bonds, shares, equity interests, certificates giving rights to public bonds or shares, debentures, treasury securities, mortgage securities, profit certificates, coupons, dividend receipts, coupon exchange tickets and other similar securities or certificates a Cabinet Order (政令) specifies, whether or not a certificate has been issued.
Defined inArticle 6, paragraph (1), item (xi)
fine
罰金
A criminal punishment of paying money to the state, of 10,000 yen or more, or less where it is reduced (Penal Code, Article 15). It ranks below imprisonment (拘禁刑) and above penal detention (拘留) and a petty fine (科料) (Articles 9 and 10, paragraph (1)). A person who cannot pay it in full is held in a workhouse (労役場) for one day to two years, or up to three years where fines are imposed together, a period set when the sentence is passed (Article 18, paragraphs (1), (3) and (4)); not within thirty days of the sentence becoming final without the person's consent (paragraph (5)). If it is not enforced for three years after the sentence becomes final, the person is released from it by prescription (Articles 31 and 32, item (v)); the three years do not run while its execution is suspended under law or the person is abroad, and an act of execution interrupts them (Articles 33 and 34, paragraph (2)).
Written by AI using Penal Code, Arts. 9, 10, 15, 18, 31 to 34 as a reference.
imprisonment
拘禁刑
The punishment of being held in a penal institution (刑事施設), for life or for a fixed term of one month to twenty years (Penal Code, Article 12, paragraphs (1) and (2)); a fixed term can be raised to thirty years where the punishment is aggravated, or cut below one month where it is reduced (Article 14, paragraph (2)). To help the person reform and rehabilitate, they may be made to do work or given guidance (Article 12, paragraph (3)). It ranks below the death penalty and above a fine (罰金) among the principal punishments (Articles 9 and 10, paragraph (1)). It replaced imprisonment with work (懲役) and imprisonment without work (禁錮) when the Act Partially Amending the Penal Code, etc. (Act No. 67 of 2022) came into force (Act No. 67 of 2022, Article 2), and a person sentenced to either is treated, for the rules on a person's qualifications, as sentenced to imprisonment for the same term (Act No. 68 of 2022, Article 443, paragraph (1)).
Written by AI using Penal Code, Arts. 9, 10, 12, 14, Act No. 67 of 2022, Art. 2 and Act No. 68 of 2022, Art. 443 as a reference.