When a representative of a juridical person (including labor insurance affairs associations and associations prescribed in Article 35, paragraph (1) which are not juridical persons; hereinafter the same applies in this paragraph) or an agent, employee or any other worker for a juridical person or an individual, with regard to the business of the juridical person or individual, commits a violation set forth in Article 51 or the preceding Article, not only the offender is punished but also the juridical person or individual is punished by the fine prescribed in the respective Articles.
Where a labor insurance affairs association or an association prescribed in Article 35, paragraph (1) which is not a juridical person is punished pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the representative of the labor insurance affairs association or association represents the labor insurance affairs association or association in conducting procedural acts, and the provisions of Acts concerning criminal proceedings in cases where a juridical person is an accused or a suspect apply mutatis mutandis to such cases.