A person who commits any of the offenses set forth in paragraph (1), items (i) through (ii)-2, item (v) or (vii) or paragraph (2) of the preceding Article may be exempt from the penalty if it is proved that the person corresponds to the following items; provided however, that this is to be limited to cases in which, after having committed the act pertaining to the crime, a proposal was made without delay in the presence of an immigration inspector that the person falls under the following items:
the person enters Japan directly from a territory in which their life, body or physical freedom was likely to be persecuted on the grounds prescribed in Article 1, paragraph A-(2) of the Refugee Convention; and
the act pertaining to the crime was committed because there was a risk that the situation prescribed in the preceding item will occur.
前号のおそれがあることにより当該罪に係る行為をしたものであること。