When a funds transfer service provider concludes a guarantee contract for security deposits for providing funds transfer services (meaning a contract in which a deposit-taking institution satisfying the requirements specified by Cabinet Order or any other person specified by Cabinet Order (hereinafter referred to as a "person qualified as a performance guarantor" in this Chapter) promises that security deposits for providing funds transfer services will be made on behalf of the funds transfer service provider in response to an order by the Prime Minister; the same applies in this Chapter) for each category of funds transfer services that it provides and has notified the Prime Minister to that effect, pursuant to the provisions of Cabinet Order, it may choose not to make all or part of the security deposits for providing funds transfer services for the relevant category of funds transfer services with regard to the secured amount (meaning the amount of money to be deposited under the guarantee contract for security deposits for providing funds transfer services; hereinafter the same applies in this Chapter) limited to the period during which the contract remains in force.