If an officer or employee of a registered agency for design reviews and post-manufacturing inspections, a registered agency for performance inspections, a registered agency for individual examinations, or a registered agency for type examinations (hereinafter referred to as a "specified agency" in this Article) that conducts design reviews or post-manufacturing inspections, performance inspections, individual examinations, or type examinations (hereinafter referred to as the "specified operations" in this Article) accepts, solicits, or agrees to a bribe in connection with the duties thereof, that officer or employee is subject to imprisonment for a term of five years or less. If, in doing so, the person has committed an improper act or omitted a proper act, that person is subject to imprisonment for a term of seven years or less.
If a person who is attempting to become an officer or employee of a specified agency engaged in specified operations accedes to a request involving an official duty and accepts, solicits, or agrees to a bribe in connection with a duty to be assumed, that person is subject to imprisonment for a term of five years or less if that person becomes an officer or employee of the agency.
If a person who used to be an officer or employee of a specified agency engaged in specified operations has accepted, solicited, or agreed to a bribe in connection with that person's having acceded to a request involving an official duty while in service and engaged in improper conduct or failed to take a reasonable action in an official capacity, that person is subject to imprisonment for a term of five years or less.
In a case as referred to in the preceding three paragraphs, any bribe that the offender has accepted is confiscated. If all or part of this cannot be confiscated, an equivalent value is collected.
前三項の場合において、犯人が収受した賄賂は、没収する。その全部又は一部を没収することができないときは、その価額を追徴する。