Article 108Measures to Ensure Proper Conduct of Public Auctions

①The district director may, with regard to a person for whom there is a fact found to show that the person falls under any of the following, for two years after the fact occurred, restrict that person from entering the place of the public auction, expel that person from that place, or not allow that person to make a bid, etc. The same applies to a person who employs, as an employee or other worker, a person for whom two years have not elapsed since the fact occurred, and to a person who makes such a person an agent for a bid, etc.

②With regard to a bid, etc. by a person who falls under the preceding paragraph or a decision determining that person as the highest bidder, etc., the district director may treat the bid, etc. as not having been made or revoke the decision.

③In the case referred to in the preceding paragraph, if there is a public auction deposit paid by the person subject to the disposition under that paragraph, that public auction deposit reverts to the national treasury. In this case, Article 100, paragraph (6) (Public Auction Deposit) does not apply.

④When the district director finds it necessary for the application of paragraph (1), the district director may require proof of the status of a bidder, etc.

⑤Where the district director finds that the highest bidder, etc. for real property for public auction, or a person who has had the highest bidder, etc. make a bid, etc. for the real property for public auction on their own account, falls under either of the following, the district director may revoke the decision determining those persons as the highest bidder, etc.