Article 144-48Substantial Additional Charge Concerning Light Oil Delivery Tax
第百四十四条の四十八(軽油引取税に係る重加算金)
In the case falling under the provisions of paragraph (1) of the preceding Article, where a special collection agent or taxpayer for the light oil delivery tax has concealed or disguised the whole or part of the facts that should form the basis of calculating the taxable volume, and has filed a return or a written request for reassessment prescribed in Article 20-9-3, paragraph (3) (referred to as a "written request for reassessment" in the following paragraph) based on the facts so concealed or disguised, the prefectural governor must, as provided by Cabinet Order, in lieu of the amount of additional charge for understatement prescribed in paragraph (1) of the preceding Article, collect an amount of substantial additional charge equivalent to the amount calculated by multiplying the shortfall amount resulting from the reassessment, which should form the basis of calculating it, by a rate of 35 percent.
In the case falling under the provisions of paragraph (2) of the preceding Article (excluding the case where the proviso to that paragraph applies), where a special collection agent or taxpayer has concealed or disguised the whole or part of the facts that should form the basis of calculating the taxable volume, and, based on the facts so concealed or disguised, has failed to file a return by the deadline for filing it, has filed a return after the deadline for filing it, or has filed a written request for reassessment, the prefectural governor must, in lieu of the amount of additional charge for failure to file prescribed in that paragraph, collect an amount of substantial additional charge equivalent to the amount calculated by multiplying the amount of tax that should form the basis of calculating it by a rate of 40 percent.
In the case falling under the provisions of the preceding two paragraphs, where any of the following items (item (i) in the case falling under the provisions of paragraph (1)) applies, the amount of substantial additional charge prescribed in the preceding two paragraphs is, notwithstanding those provisions, the amount obtained by adding to the amount calculated under those provisions the amount calculated by multiplying, by a rate of 10 percent, the shortfall amount resulting from the reassessment that should form the basis of calculating prescribed in paragraph (1) in the case falling under the provisions of that paragraph, or the amount of tax that should form the basis of calculating prescribed in the preceding paragraph in the case falling under the provisions of that paragraph:
Where, during the period counted back from the day preceding the day on which, based on the concealed or disguised facts that should form the basis of calculating the taxable volume prescribed in the preceding two paragraphs, a return was filed after the deadline for filing it, or a reassessment or determination was made under the provisions of Article 144-44, paragraphs (1) through (3), to the day five years before that day, the person has been charged an additional charge for failure to file, etc. for the light oil delivery tax;
前二項に規定する課税標準量の計算の基礎となるべき事実で隠蔽し、又は仮装されたものに基づき申告書の提出期限後のその提出又は第百四十四条の四十四第一項から第三項までの規定による更正若しくは決定があつた日の前日から起算して五年前の日までの間に、軽油引取税について、不申告加算金等を徴収されたことがある場合
Where, for the light oil delivery tax for which a special collection obligation or tax liability arose in the year before, and the year before that, the year containing the day on which the special collection obligation or tax liability arose for the light oil delivery tax pertaining to the filing of a return after the deadline for filing it, or a reassessment or determination under the provisions of Article 144-44, paragraphs (1) through (3), the person has been charged a specified additional charge for failure to file, etc., or it is found that a determination relating to a specified additional charge for failure to file, etc. should be made.
申告書の提出期限後のその提出又は第百四十四条の四十四第一項から第三項までの規定による更正若しくは決定に係る軽油引取税の特別徴収義務又は納税義務が成立した日の属する年の前年及び前々年に特別徴収義務又は納税義務が成立した軽油引取税について、特定不申告加算金等を徴収されたことがあり、又は特定不申告加算金等に係る決定をすべきと認める場合
In the case falling under the provisions of the preceding two paragraphs, where there are grounds prescribed in Article 144-47, paragraph (6) for the filing of the return, the prefectural governor does not collect an amount of substantial additional charge calculated on the basis of the amount of tax pertaining to the remittance return or return.
Where the prefectural governor has determined the amount of substantial additional charge to be collected under the provisions of paragraph (1) or (2), the governor must notify the special collection agent or taxpayer for the light oil delivery tax of it without delay.
Subsection 3 Demand for Payment and Delinquent Tax Collection Procedures
第三款 督促及び滞納処分
Article 144-49Demand for Payment Concerning Light Oil Delivery Tax
第百四十四条の四十九(軽油引取税に係る督促)
Where a special collection agent or taxpayer for the light oil delivery tax fails to pay in full the local government levies pertaining to the light oil delivery tax by the due date for payment (where a reassessment or determination has been made, meaning the due date for payment of the shortfall amount; the same applies hereinafter in this Section), the prefectural tax collection official must issue a demand letter within 20 days after the due date for payment; provided, however, that this does not apply in the case of advance collection or in the case of collection under the provisions of Article 144-22, paragraph (4) (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 144-25, paragraph (5)).
軽油引取税の特別徴収義務者又は納税者が納期限(更正又は決定があつた場合においては、不足金額の納期限をいう。以下この節において同じ。)までに軽油引取税に係る地方団体の徴収金を完納しない場合においては、道府県の徴税吏員は、納期限後二十日以内に、督促状を発しなければならない。ただし、繰上徴収をする場合又は第百四十四条の二十二第四項(第百四十四条の二十五第五項において準用する場合を含む。)の規定により徴収する場合においては、この限りでない。
A prefecture in special circumstances may, by a Prefectural Ordinance of that prefecture, provide for a period different from the period prescribed in the preceding paragraph.
特別の事情がある道府県においては、当該道府県の条例で前項に規定する期間と異なる期間を定めることができる。
Article 144-50Demand Fee Concerning Light Oil Delivery Tax
第百四十四条の五十(軽油引取税に係る督促手数料)
Where a prefectural tax collection official has issued a demand letter, the official may collect a fee, as provided by the Prefectural Ordinance of that prefecture.
道府県の徴税吏員は、督促状を発した場合においては、当該道府県の条例で定めるところにより、手数料を徴収することができる。
Article 144-51Delinquent Tax Collection Procedure Concerning Light Oil Delivery Tax
第百四十四条の五十一(軽油引取税に係る滞納処分)
When a person delinquent in payment of the light oil delivery tax falls under any of the following items, the prefectural tax collection official must seize the property of the person delinquent in payment with respect to the local government levies on that light oil delivery tax.
When a person delinquent in payment, having received a demand, fails to pay in full the local government levies on the light oil delivery tax subject to that demand by the day on which 10 days have elapsed counting from the date on which the demand letter was issued.
滞納者が督促を受け、その督促状を発した日から起算して十日を経過した日までにその督促に係る軽油引取税に係る地方団体の徴収金を完納しないとき。
When a person delinquent in payment fails to pay in full the local government levies on the light oil delivery tax by the due date for payment designated in a notice of advance collection or in a notice of collection under Article 144-22, paragraph (4) (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 144-25, paragraph (5)).
滞納者が繰上徴収に係る告知又は第百四十四条の二十二第四項(第百四十四条の二十五第五項において準用する場合を含む。)の規定による徴収に係る告知により指定された納期限までに軽油引取税に係る地方団体の徴収金を完納しないとき。
In applying the provisions of the preceding paragraph to a secondary taxpayer or a guarantor, the term "demand letter" in item (i) of that paragraph is deemed to be replaced with "written reminder to remit or pay".
If, during the period after the due date for payment of the local government levies on the light oil delivery tax until the day on which the 10 days prescribed in paragraph (1), item (i) have elapsed, a fact falling under any item of Article 13-2, paragraph (1) arises with respect to a person delinquent in payment who has received a demand, the prefectural tax collection official may immediately seize that person's property.
Where compulsory liquidation procedure is conducted on the property of a person delinquent in payment, the prefectural tax collection official must make a request for share distribution to the enforcement agency (the court handling the bankruptcy case pertaining to the request for share distribution, where a request for share distribution is made of local government levies on the light oil delivery tax pertaining to a claim listed in Article 114, item (i) of the Bankruptcy Act) with respect to the local government levies on the light oil delivery tax pertaining to the delinquency.
滞納者の財産につき強制換価手続が行われた場合には、道府県の徴税吏員は、執行機関(破産法第百十四条第一号に掲げる請求権に係る軽油引取税に係る地方団体の徴収金の交付要求を行う場合には、その交付要求に係る破産事件を取り扱う裁判所)に対し、滞納に係る軽油引取税に係る地方団体の徴収金につき、交付要求をしなければならない。
When a prefectural tax collection official is able to make a seizure under paragraphs (1) through (3), and property of a person delinquent in payment set out in the items of Article 86, paragraph (1) of the National Tax Collection Act has already been seized in a delinquent tax collection procedure for other local government levies or national taxes, or by a disposition governed by the rules of those delinquent tax collection procedures, the request for share distribution for that property may be made by participatory seizure.
道府県の徴税吏員は、第一項から第三項までの規定により差押えをすることができる場合において、滞納者の財産で国税徴収法第八十六条第一項各号に掲げるものにつき、既に他の地方団体の徴収金若しくは国税の滞納処分又はこれらの滞納処分の例による処分による差押えがされているときは、当該財産についての交付要求は、参加差押えによりすることができる。
Delinquent tax collection procedures for local government levies on the light oil delivery tax, including those provided for in the preceding paragraphs, are to follow the delinquent tax collection procedures prescribed in the National Tax Collection Act.
Dispositions under the preceding paragraphs may also be carried out outside the area of the prefecture concerned.
前各項の規定による処分は、当該道府県の区域外においても行うことができる。
第百四十四条の五十二(軽油引取税に係る滞納処分に関する罪)
If a special collection agent or taxpayer of the light oil delivery tax, for the purpose of evading the execution of delinquent tax collection procedures, conceals or destroys his or her property, disposes of it to the detriment of the prefecture, falsely increases the encumbrances on that property, or alters its present state, thereby reducing the value of the property or increasing the expenses for the delinquent tax collection procedure pertaining to it, that person is to be punished by imprisonment for not more than three years or a fine of not more than 2,500,000 yen, or both.
The same applies where a third party in possession of the property of a special collection agent or taxpayer commits an act referred to in the preceding paragraph for the purpose of enabling the special collection agent or taxpayer to evade the execution of delinquent tax collection procedures.
A person who, knowing the circumstances, becomes the counterparty of a special collection agent or taxpayer, or of a third party in possession of that person's property, in an act referred to in the preceding two paragraphs, and commits the violation as that counterparty, is to be punished by imprisonment for not more than two years or a fine of not more than 1,500,000 yen, or both.
If a representative of a corporation, or an agent, employee or other worker of a corporation or a person, commits a violation prescribed in the preceding three paragraphs in connection with the business or property of that corporation or person, then in addition to punishing the offender, the fine prescribed in the relevant paragraphs is imposed on that corporation or person.
法人の代表者又は法人若しくは人の代理人、使用人その他の従業者がその法人又は人の業務又は財産に関して前三項の違反行為をした場合には、その行為者を罰するほか、その法人又は人に対し、当該各項の罰金刑を科する。
第百四十四条の五十三(国税徴収法の例による軽油引取税に係る滞納処分に関する検査拒否等の罪)
In a case that falls under any of the following items, the person who committed the violation is to be punished by imprisonment for not more than one year or a fine of not more than 500,000 yen:
次の各号のいずれかに該当する場合には、その違反行為をした者は、一年以下の拘禁刑又は五十万円以下の罰金に処する。
When, in the case referred to in Article 144-51, paragraph (6), a person fails to answer, or makes a false statement, in response to questions by a prefectural tax collection official conducted in accordance with the example of the provisions of Article 141 of the National Tax Collection Act.
第百四十四条の五十一第六項の場合において、国税徴収法第百四十一条の規定の例により行う道府県の徴税吏員の質問に対して答弁をせず、又は偽りの陳述をしたとき。
When, in the case referred to in Article 144-51, paragraph (6), a person refuses, obstructs or evades an inspection by a prefectural tax collection official, conducted in accordance with the example of the provisions of Article 141 of the National Tax Collection Act, of books and documents (meaning the books and documents prescribed in that Article; the same applies in the following item) or other articles.
第百四十四条の五十一第六項の場合において、国税徴収法第百四十一条の規定の例により行う道府県の徴税吏員の帳簿書類(同条に規定する帳簿書類をいう。次号において同じ。)その他の物件の検査を拒み、妨げ、又は忌避したとき。
When, in the case referred to in Article 144-51, paragraph (6), a person, without justifiable grounds, fails to comply with a request by a prefectural tax collection official, made in accordance with the example of the provisions of Article 141 of the National Tax Collection Act, to present or submit articles, or presents or submits books and documents or other articles (including copies thereof) in which false entries or records have been made.
第百四十四条の五十一第六項の場合において、国税徴収法第百四十一条の規定の例により行う道府県の徴税吏員の物件の提示又は提出の要求に対し、正当な理由がなくこれに応じず、又は偽りの記載若しくは記録をした帳簿書類その他の物件(その写しを含む。)を提示し、若しくは提出したとき。
Where a representative of a corporation, or an agent, employee or other worker of a corporation or person, has committed a violation set forth in the preceding paragraph in connection with the business or property of that corporation or person, in addition to punishing the offender, the fine prescribed in that paragraph is to be imposed on that corporation or person.
第百四十四条の五十四(国税徴収法の例による軽油引取税に係る滞納処分に関する虚偽の陳述の罪)
A person who, in the case referred to in Article 144-51, paragraph (6), makes a false statement on matters to be stated to the prefectural governor in accordance with the example of the provisions of Article 99-2 of the National Tax Collection Act (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 109, paragraph (4) of that Act) is to be punished by imprisonment for not more than six months or a fine of not more than 500,000 yen.
第百四十四条の五十一第六項の場合において、国税徴収法第九十九条の二(同法第百九条第四項において準用する場合を含む。)の規定の例により道府県知事に対して陳述すべき事項について虚偽の陳述をした者は、六月以下の拘禁刑又は五十万円以下の罰金に処する。
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Subsection 4 Distribution to Designated Cities
第四款 指定市に対する交付
第百四十四条の六十
A prefecture that includes a designated city prescribed in Article 7, paragraph (3) of the Road Act (Act No. 180 of 1952) (referred to as a "designated city under the Road Act" in this paragraph) (referred to as a "designated prefecture" in this paragraph) is to distribute to the designated city under the Road Act, as provided by Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, an amount obtained by multiplying the amount equivalent to the amount of light oil delivery tax remitted or paid to that designated prefecture by the rate specified by Cabinet Order, and then multiplying the resulting amount by the number obtained by dividing the area of general national highways, etc. (meaning general national highways, national expressways and prefectural roads (excluding those for which the designated prefecture or designated city under the Road Act does not bear the management costs and others specified by Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications); the same applies hereinafter in this Article) located within the area of that designated city under the Road Act by the area of general national highways, etc. located within the area of the designated prefecture.
道路法(昭和二十七年法律第百八十号)第七条第三項に規定する指定市(以下この項において「指定市」という。)を包括する道府県(以下この項において「指定道府県」という。)は、総務省令で定めるところにより、当該指定道府県に納入され、又は納付された軽油引取税額に相当する額に政令で定める率を乗じて得た額に当該指定市の区域内に存する一般国道等(一般国道、高速自動車国道及び都道府県道(当該指定道府県又は指定市がその管理について経費を負担しないものその他総務省令で定めるものを除く。)をいう。以下この条において同じ。)の面積を当該指定道府県の区域内に存する一般国道等の面積で除して得た数を乗じて得た額を当該指定市に対して交付するものとする。
The area of general national highways, etc. in the preceding paragraph is to be calculated, as provided by Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, by multiplying the width of each such road by its length. However, it may be adjusted, as provided by Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, with reference to the type of road, the classification of roads by width and other circumstances.
tax collection officialmachine translation
「徴税吏員」
A prefectural governor (道府県知事) or a prefectural employee the governor has delegated, or a mayor of a municipality (市町村長) or a municipal employee the mayor has delegated.
Defined inArticle 1, paragraph (1), item (iii)· applies throughout the law
special collection agentmachine translation
「特別徴収義務者」
A person obliged to collect a local tax by special collection (特別徴収) and pay it in (Article 1, paragraph 1, item 10).
Defined inArticle 1, paragraph (1), item (x)· applies throughout the law
local government leviesmachine translation
「地方団体の徴収金」
A local tax (地方税) together with its demand fee (督促手数料), delinquency charge (延滞金), additional charge for understatement (過少申告加算金), additional charge for failure to file (不申告加算金), substantial additional charge (重加算金) and delinquent disposition costs (滞納処分費).
Defined inArticle 1, paragraph (1), item (xiv)· applies throughout the law
secondary taxpayermachine translation
「第二次納税義務者」
A person who has a secondary tax liability (第二次納税義務) under Articles 11-2 to 11-10 or Article 12-2, paragraph 2 or 3 for local tax collection money (地方団体の徴収金) owed by a taxpayer or special collector (特別徴収義務者), from whom the head of the local government collects it by a written notice stating the amount, the deadline and the place of payment.
Short name set inArticle 11, paragraph (1)
compulsory liquidation proceduremachine translation
「強制換価手続」
Any procedure that sells a debtor's property by force: delinquent tax collection (滞納処分) and procedures run in the same way, compulsory execution, auction to enforce a security interest, enforcement of an enterprise mortgage (企業担保権) or of an enterprise value charge (企業価値担保権), and bankruptcy.
Short name set inArticle 13-2, paragraph (1), item (i)
enforcement agencymachine translation
「執行機関」
An administrative body or other person carrying out a delinquent tax collection procedure (滞納処分), a court (or, in small-claims enforcement under Article 167-2, paragraph 2 of the Civil Enforcement Act, a court clerk), a court execution officer (執行官) or a bankruptcy trustee (破産管財人).
Defined inArticle 13-3, paragraph (2)
taxable volumemachine translation
「課税標準量」
The quantity of light oil on which a special collector (特別徴収義務者) of light oil delivery tax (軽油引取税) must collect the tax in a month, which it states with the tax amount in its monthly remittance return (納入申告書).
Short name set inArticle 144-14, paragraph (2)· applies only in this section
taxpayermachine translation
「納税者」
A taxpayer who must file a return for and pay the light oil delivery tax (軽油引取税) under the proviso to Article 144-13.
Short name set inArticle 144-18, paragraph (1)· applies only in this section
returnmachine translation
「申告書」
From Article 144-44 to the end of the section on the light oil delivery tax (軽油引取税), the payment return (納入申告書) under Article 144-14, paragraph 2 and the return under Article 144-18, taken together.
Short name set inArticle 144-44, paragraph (1)· applies only in this section
shortfall amountmachine translation
「不足金額」
The shortfall found on a reassessment (更正) in the money to be paid in (納入金) — in Articles 144-45 and 733-17, in that money or in tax — or the amount fixed by a determination (決定).
Defined inArticle 144-45, paragraph (1)· applies only in this section
additional charge for failure to file, etc.machine translation
「不申告加算金等」
An additional charge for failure to file (不申告加算金) or a substantial additional charge (重加算金) collected on the tax the provision concerns, leaving out an additional charge for failure to file covered by the next paragraph (in Article 72-46, one collected in the cases that paragraph lists).
Short name set inArticle 144-47, paragraph (5), item (i)· applies only in this provision and in Article 144-48, paragraph (3), item (i)
specified additional charge for failure to file, etc.machine translation
「特定不申告加算金等」
An additional charge for failure to file (不申告加算金), or a substantial additional charge (重加算金) of the kind the following Article's paragraph 2 provides, on the same tax for the two years before the year in which the tax liability, or business year, of the late return, amended return, reassessment or determination at issue arose, that was collected or that the local government finds should be decided.
Short name set inArticle 144-47, paragraph (5), item (ii)· applies only in this item and in Article 144-48, paragraph (3), item (ii)
written request for reassessmentmachine translation
「更正請求書」
The written request for reassessment that Article 20-9-3, paragraph 3 requires a person making a request for reassessment (更正の請求) to submit to the head of the local government (地方団体の長), stating the corrected tax base or tax amount, the reasons for the request, the circumstances that led to it in detail, the tax and refund amounts before the correction and other relevant matters.
Short name set inArticle 144-48, paragraph (1)· applies only in this provision and in Article 144-48, paragraph (2)
due datemachine translation
「納期限」
For the light oil delivery tax (軽油引取税), the due date for paying it in, which, where a reassessment (更正) or determination (決定) has been made, means the due date for the shortfall.
Defined inArticle 144-49, paragraph (1)· applies only in this section
books and documentsmachine translation
「帳簿書類」
The books and documents on a delinquent taxpayer's property that Article 141 of the National Tax Collection Act names, including the electronic records (電磁的記録) made or kept in their place.
Defined inArticle 144-53, paragraph (1), item (ii)· applies only in this provision and in Article 144-53, paragraph (1), item (iii)
general national highways, etc.machine translation
「一般国道等」
General national highways (一般国道), national expressways (高速自動車国道) and prefectural roads (都道府県道), other than those whose management costs the designated prefecture or designated city does not bear and others an Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (総務省令) excludes.
Defined inArticle 144-60, paragraph (1)· applies only in this article
designated city under the Road Actmachine translation
「指定市」
In Article 144-60, paragraph 1, a designated city (指定市) as defined in Article 7, paragraph 3 of the Road Act, to which the prefecture containing it passes on an amount reckoned from the diesel oil delivery tax (軽油引取税) it receives and the share of its general national roads, etc. (一般国道等) that lie in the city.
Short name set inArticle 144-60, paragraph (1)· applies only in this paragraph
designated prefecturemachine translation
「指定道府県」
In Article 144-60, paragraph 1, the prefecture (道府県) containing a designated city (指定市) as defined in Article 7, paragraph 3 of the Road Act.
Short name set inArticle 144-60, paragraph (1)· applies only in this paragraph
fine
罰金
A criminal punishment of paying money to the state, of 10,000 yen or more, or less where it is reduced (Penal Code, Article 15). It ranks below imprisonment (拘禁刑) and above penal detention (拘留) and a petty fine (科料) (Articles 9 and 10, paragraph (1)). A person who cannot pay it in full is held in a workhouse (労役場) for one day to two years, or up to three years where fines are imposed together, a period set when the sentence is passed (Article 18, paragraphs (1), (3) and (4)); not within thirty days of the sentence becoming final without the person's consent (paragraph (5)). If it is not enforced for three years after the sentence becomes final, the person is released from it by prescription (Articles 31 and 32, item (v)); the three years do not run while its execution is suspended under law or the person is abroad, and an act of execution interrupts them (Articles 33 and 34, paragraph (2)).
Written by AI using Penal Code, Arts. 9, 10, 15, 18, 31 to 34 as a reference.
imprisonment
拘禁刑
The punishment of being held in a penal institution (刑事施設), for life or for a fixed term of one month to twenty years (Penal Code, Article 12, paragraphs (1) and (2)); a fixed term can be raised to thirty years where the punishment is aggravated, or cut below one month where it is reduced (Article 14, paragraph (2)). To help the person reform and rehabilitate, they may be made to do work or given guidance (Article 12, paragraph (3)). It ranks below the death penalty and above a fine (罰金) among the principal punishments (Articles 9 and 10, paragraph (1)). It replaced imprisonment with work (懲役) and imprisonment without work (禁錮) when the Act Partially Amending the Penal Code, etc. (Act No. 67 of 2022) came into force (Act No. 67 of 2022, Article 2), and a person sentenced to either is treated, for the rules on a person's qualifications, as sentenced to imprisonment for the same term (Act No. 68 of 2022, Article 443, paragraph (1)).
Written by AI using Penal Code, Arts. 9, 10, 12, 14, Act No. 67 of 2022, Art. 2 and Act No. 68 of 2022, Art. 443 as a reference.
Prefectural or Municipal Ordinance
条例
A rule a local government makes for itself: a prefecture (都道府県), a city, town or village (市町村), or one of Tokyo's special wards (特別区) (Local Autonomy Act, Articles 1-3, 281 and 283). Its assembly (議会), whose members the residents elect, passes it (Articles 89 and 96, paragraph (1), item (i)), and its head — the governor or the mayor (Article 139) — promulgates it, that is, makes it public so that it can take effect (Article 16). The Constitution lets local governments make them within the limits of Acts (Constitution, Article 94), and one may not go against the national laws and regulations (法令), such as Acts, Cabinet Orders (政令) and Ministerial Orders (省令) (Local Autonomy Act, Article 14, paragraph (1)). Unless national laws and regulations provide otherwise, a local government can impose a duty or restrict a right only by one of these (Article 14, paragraph (2)), and it may write into one penalties for breaking it, within limits the Local Autonomy Act sets (Article 14, paragraph (3)). It is made for that local government's own affairs (Article 2, paragraph (2) and Article 14, paragraph (1)), so the same matter can be handled differently from one place to the next. It is a local rule, not a national one: an "ordinance" in the name of a national rule, such as an Ordinance for Enforcement of an Act, is usually a Ministerial Order (省令) or another national instrument.
Written by AI using Constitution, Art. 94 and Local Autonomy Act, Arts. 1-3, 2, 14, 16, 89, 96, 139, 281, 283 as a reference.