The director of the regional immigration services bureau may, for two years on or after the date on which a person found to fall under any of the following items came to fall under the relevant item, refuse to allow that person to participate in a public auction, restrict that person's entry into the place of the public auction, or have that person leave that place. The same applies to a person who, in a public auction, employs any of these persons as an agent, manager or other worker.
地方出入国在留管理局長は、次の各号のいずれかに該当すると認められる者を、当該各号に該当することとなった日以後二年間、公売に加わらせず、公売の場所に入ることを制限し、又はその場所から退場させることができる。公売に際しこれらの者を代理人、支配人その他の従事者として使用する者についても、同様とする。
a person who has formed a combination for the purpose of unfairly lowering the price in a public auction;
公売に際して不当に価格を引き下げる目的をもって連合をした者
a person who has obstructed participation in a public auction, or obstructed the conclusion or performance of a contract by a person who participated in a public auction;
公売に加わることを妨害し、又は公売に加わった者の契約の締結若しくは履行を妨害した者
a person who has failed to perform a contract without a justifiable reason;
正当な理由がなくて契約を履行しなかった者
a person who participated in a public auction under a false name;
偽りの名義で公売に参加した者
a person who has intentionally damaged retained articles, etc. put up for a public auction and thereby reduced their value; and
in addition to the persons set forth in the preceding items, a person who has committed an act that obstructs the conduct of a public auction.
When a person found to fall under any of the items of the preceding paragraph, or a person prescribed in the latter sentence of that paragraph, has made a bid under paragraph (1) of the following Article, the director of the regional immigration services bureau may treat that bid as not having been made.
When the director of the regional immigration services bureau finds it necessary for applying the provisions of paragraph (1), the director may require participants in a public auction to provide proof of their identity.
With respect to retained articles, etc. put up for a public auction, immigration control officers and other officials engaged in affairs relating to investigation into violations, and the owner of the articles, may not purchase them, whether directly or indirectly.