①If a specified entrusting business operator seeks to cancel a contract for continued business entrustment (including if a specified entrusting business operator seeks not to renew the contract after it expires; the same applies in the following paragraph), it must give advance notice of this at least 30 days in advance to the specified entrusted business operator that is the other party to the contract pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare; provided, however, that this does not apply if it proves difficult to give advance notice due to a natural disaster or any other unavoidable circumstances, or in any other case specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.

②If during the period from the day on which the advance notice was given as stated in the preceding paragraph until the day on which the contract expires as stated in that paragraph, a specified entrusted business operator requests a specified entrusting business operator to disclose the reasons for cancelling the contract, the specified entrusting business operator must disclose the reasons without delay to the specified entrusted business operator pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare; provided, however, that this does not apply if there is a risk of harming the interests of a third party or in other cases specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.